Fingernail maintenance is absolutely essential once all your digits are incorporated in the plucking-hand attack. Since natural nails break easily and always seem to be there least when needed most – ...

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Fingerstyle and classical guitar players share the same problem: how to maintain their picking hand's nails, or use artificial nails to enhance performance and tone. For many professionals, the ...

About a decade ago, I took the fingerstyle plunge and got fake nails on the advice of Kaki King. She told me to get acrylics — the hardest and most durable nail — at a professional salon. She even ...