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Ever wondered how to get more expressive tone from your guitar? Jared James Nichols breaks down how ditching the pick and using his fingers gave his licks more color and power, and demonstrates his incredible fingerstyle technique.

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00:00I'm left-handed. When I went to go get the guitar, the guy at the shop goes,
00:03dude, you have to flip the guitar. He's like, it's not going to work. Okay. So I flip it,
00:07right? And I was trying to play with a pick and I got to a point where I was doing
00:11okay
00:11with a pick, but it never felt right. It was like, if you had your fretting hand
00:15and you were wearing a glove, there's this thing where you go, man, this,
00:19I need to feel the strings and like the tension and the dynamic level. Right?
00:23So if I play something, I go.
00:31So then when you put more gain on it, I noticed that it gave a lot of the licks
00:36that I was playing with a pick more color. So I would play something like, let's just say I play.

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