Kid Guitars

Plucking a guitar is the sort of precise, deliberate activity that looks incredibly simple when a professional does it. That owes to hours and hours of practice, of course, and it would behoove a child to learn the ins and outs of plucking technique. While many musical terms come from the Italians, the applicable plucking terms we’ll learn today are actually drawn from Spanish flamenco style.

First is the rest stroke, or apoyando, which requires that the finger first plucks a childrens guitar string before resting the string immediately above it. The other widely used plucking technique is the straightforward free stroke, or tirando, which requires a simple pluck and nothing more. Plucking should be performed in one fluid motion, beginning with the fleshy part of the fingertip and allowing the string to bend slightly as one brushes through with the nail.