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We mainly see electric guitarist playin with both pick & fingers ,name the one that you know playin with fingers only ..

I d say :Jeff Beck , Mark Knopfler
 
Fingerpicking Guitarists

The Master of the Telecaster----Albert Collins
The Big Lefty-------------------Albert King
 
Ry Cooder, from what I know is finger picker. At least 'Eugene's Trick Bag' the famous piece written by Paganini and arranged by Vai was played with his fingers. Fair shout. . .

Apart from that, that's a hard question. Most electric guitarists use their fingers to compliment their flat-picking (Chris Broderick, Paul Gilbert, etc.) but hardly any nowadays just use their fingers. . . More tends to be 'expected' of a guitarist these days. . .

Does 8 finger tapping count? Because then Andy McKee, Michael Hedges, Antoine Dufuor (spelling?) would be good choices - though they use steel string electro acoustics. . . :D
 
Watch Cooder play in unison with Flaco Jimenez' accordion on this. All fingers, all wonderful :AOK: .

 
They are many players but since we talked about my Idol Mr Cooder I would also mention Sonny Landreth who has a unique way of using his fingers to block the resonance of the strings while playing slide
 
Sonny Landreth - I've never heard of him before, but sounds good. I'll have to check more of that out.

But Ry, man. . .Ry Cooder is so cool. . . That song reminds me of his album Chavez Ravine. . . anyone heard that one?
 
Beautiful and hypnotizing Ry Cooder s music in the cult film Paris_Texas ..


 
thearabianmage said:
Ry Cooder, from what I know is finger picker. At least 'Eugene's Trick Bag' the famous piece written by Paganini and arranged by Vai was played with his fingers. Fair shout. . .

I didn't realise Ry played any of the 'Eugene's Trick Bag' in Crossroads, I thought Vai did all those parts and Ry played all the slide stuff.
 
Lev said:
I didn't realise Ry played any of the 'Eugene's Trick Bag' in Crossroads, I thought Vai did all those parts and Ry played all the slide stuff.

:D

Yeah, Ry played the slide stuff, but when Ralph - 'Eugene' - puts the slide away, he pulls 'Trick Bag' out of his sleeve, which is a variation on Paganini's 5th Caprice arranged by Vai.

Ry is just unstoppable!
 
thearabianmage said:
:D

Yeah, Ry played the slide stuff, but when Ralph - 'Eugene' - puts the slide away, he pulls 'Trick Bag' out of his sleeve, which is a variation on Paganini's 5th Caprice arranged by Vai.

Ry is just unstoppable!

Most of the credit has to go to Arlen Roth! Vai didn't play Eugene's Trick Bag. Here's a part of an article, for the full read (very interesting) follow the link below.

Quote Arlen Roth: "Still, I got lots of mileage out of the film, lots of exposure, and Vai always mentioned in his interviews that I was the one who really created the guitar parts for the majority of the film. Bill Kanegiser did the classical playing throughout, and by the ending "duel" we were ALL involved in that music!"
http://www.arlenroth.com/crossroads.html
 
Jimi75 said:
Most of the credit has to go to Arlen Roth! Vai didn't play Eugene's Trick Bag. Here's a part of an article, for the full read (very interesting) follow the link below.

Quote Arlen Roth: "Still, I got lots of mileage out of the film, lots of exposure, and Vai always mentioned in his interviews that I was the one who really created the guitar parts for the majority of the film. Bill Kanegiser did the classical playing throughout, and by the ending "duel" we were ALL involved in that music!"
http://www.arlenroth.com/crossroads.html

:D I know Vai didn't play it - but I read in an interview somewhere that Ry played 'Eugene's Trick Bag'. . . Vai just arranged it for the electric guitar from the violin. Interesting article, though.
 
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