Classical guitarist Segovia

[The Ace]

Hey for any of you out there that know a lot about segovia -
i have a question
Did he ever use some type of pick?
I was listening to the album Art of Segovia and on a few songs it sounded like he was using a pick.... but then again it could just be that he has been playing so long that he had built up his fingers to play like that.

[Lordathestrings]

He used his fingernails.

[zepp_rules]

yeah he used his fingers and nothing but. you don't use a pick on a classical guitar

[Azrael]

Classical Guitar is Fingerpicking only. Professionals spend hours to put their fingernails in shape. And there is no strict rule for that - everyone has a different technique to work on the nails.
there are also alot of guitarrists who dont use their nails - they just use the fingertips, which have grown pretty hard skin.

[The Ace]

thanx - he was the first real classical guitarist that I have gotten into... so I was just wondering

[Jolly McJollyson]

Originally posted by Azrael
there are also alot of guitarrists who dont use their nails - they just use the fingertips, which have grown pretty hard skin.

Here's one of them!

[aiwass]

That's one of the reasons I quit classical. Nails. I love the sound you get, but my index fingernail grows at an awkard angle (fingertip got slammed in a door when I was about a year old), causing the string to get "hooked" when plucking. This occasionally resulted in some very "snappy" notes, not to mention discomfort.

It also f'ed up my tapping on electric...