After my episode on pizzicato, I got a lot of questions about left hand pizzicato, so I decided to talk about this technique. It is a tricky technique requiring a lot of strength in the fingers. I find it helpful to think that plucking involves a kind of lever principle: the closer the plucking finger is to the finger playing the note itself, the more difficult it's going to be (and the harder you have to pluck - a short lever in other words) - while if the plucking finger is further away, it's