Re: Crosspicking vs "the Other Kind"
Originally Posted by
John Flynn
... most mandolin videos you see are technically Flatpicking. It is just not a term mandolinist typically use.
... which I've always assumed is because, as opposed to guitarists, "fingerpicking" is a term that mandolinists rarely use, and hardly ever do.
If it helps folks to cartegorize things (which is really what this thread is trying to do), I think of cross-picking as a way to emulate guitarists' fingerpicking... using a flatpick and flatpicking technique.
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