Guitar Masters: Adam Rafferty

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Adam Rafferty’s musical style is called ‘funky-fingerstyle guitar’ – a type of playing in which bass lines, melodies and accompanying harmonies are all performed simultaneously on a solo guitar. Originally fingerstyle guitar was rooted in the Nashville “country music” sound. Rafferty brings different musical influences to the genre, based on his childhood musical life in New York City. He uses sounds from the 1970s and 80s in his music – primarily the sounds of disco, hip-hop, funk, jazz and R&B into the fingerstyle method of playing guitar.