 Apoyando (also known as the rest-stroke) is a plucking motion made in such a manner that after the desired string has been plucked, the fingertip rests on the next adjacent string.Historically (for baroque guitars, right up to classical or romantic repertoire of Sor and Mertz) the free-stroke was used.One of the first classical guitarists to use the rest-stroke was the Spaniard Julian Arcas (1832–1882) (and it may have been used by Jose Ciebra as well), though it was already in use for flamenco music.