WATCH the VIDEO!
What? You don’t have perfect fingernails for fingerpicking your guitar?
Join the club.
I’ve been fingerpicking since I was deep in an adolescent funk,
and have always been frustrated by the nail issue.
Nails break. Nails grow back slow. And then they break again.
Never able to get comfortable with using fingerpicks,
I resorted to getting fake nails put on at the nail salon,
just on my fingerpicking fingers.
(“What? Just 3 nails?”, the nail technicians would always ask, looking at me like I’m nuts.)
The fake nails work great, but are a little high-maintenence for my tastes.
Good news: Just this week I discovered a new (to me, anyway) kind of fingerpick
that seems extremely promising!
Made by a Mom & Pop operation in Michigan, USA,
Fred Kelly Freedom Picks are customizeable to the size and shape of your fingertips.
The picks fit right over your natural nail,
so the playing techinque doesn’t feel all that different than playing with strong natural nails.
For me personally, I still prefer to use my God-given thumbnail, if it’s up for the job.
But for the other two fingers, these Freedom Picks are very cool, and allow me to go straight from digging in the garden, to playing my guitar with good strong “nails” (after a rinse in the sink, of course).
WATCH LISA’S VIDEO REVIEW of FRED KELLY FINGERPICKS.
Journalist Joyce Marcel does a great job describing my patchwork multi-faceted music career in this article for The Commons, a local paper here in Southern Vermont.
Lisa McCormick performs in rare concert appearance, Saturday, May 8, 7:30 pm. Historic Claremont Opera House, Claremont, NH. Special “On Stage” seating in a classically restored vintage opera house, intimate cabaret setting. $15 Tickets: 603-542-4433, or online at 
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