Doing anything the right way is subject to other things like your style, culture, or a variety of other things. Knowing that, we’ll take a general and gentle approach to how to play acoustic guitar.
You’ve got people who use flat picks, fingerpicks, fingernails, and thumbpicks. You’ve also got people who play bluegrass while others play classical, pop, country, or blues. You might say it’s all the same but it just isn’t. Bluegrassers use much bigger strings, in general, than a pop guitarist and classical players use nylon strings instead of steel strings. There are so many options and styles to playing guitar that it might be difficult to nail down one way of playing. We’ll try to do the impossible today.