Flatpicking's a technique for playing a guitar using a guitar pick (also called a plectrum) held between two or three fingers to strike the strings. It can be contrasted to fingerstyle guitar, which's playing with individual fingers, with or without wearing fingerpicks. Although the term's used in other genres and with other instruments, it's probably best known in the context of playing an acoustic guitar with steel strings, particularly in bluegrass music and old-time country music. Probably s… (More on Flatpicking)