Piedmont blues
The
Piedmont blues is a type of
blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the
guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings. The Piedmont blues typically refers to a greater area than
Piedmont, which refers to the East Coast of the
United States from about
Richmond, Virginia to
Atlanta, Georgia. Piedmont blues musicians comes from this area, as well as
Maryland,
Delaware,
West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and
Florida.