This lesson focuses on how your picking hand should be positioned when trying to build speed. I know everyone approaches picking a little differently, so what I tried to show in this video is the basics of how most guitarist’s with fast playing styles have their picking hand positioned. The biggest key of all is [...]
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Intermediate Guitar Lesson – Picking Hand Positioning For Fast Playing Styles
January 31st, 2010
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Intermediate Guitar Lesson – Hybrid Picking Pt.2
January 30th, 2010
In this second part of our intermediate level series on hybrid picking, we will begin to add the picking hand’s ring finger into our hybrid picking passages. The more you practice your hybrid picking exercises the more comfortable you will feel with the technique. You may feel you would like to grow your picking hand [...]
Intermediate Guitar Lesson – Hybrid Picking Pt.1
January 29th, 2010
This lesson is our first focusing on hybrid picking on the guitar. Hybrid picking is just the ability to use your pick as well as pick hand fingers together. Becoming proficient at hybrid picking can really open up the door to a lot of sounds that just aren’t possible by just using a pick alone. [...]
Beginner Guitar Lesson – Guitar Bends
January 28th, 2010
This lesson is our first lesson concentrating on guitar bends. Bending is a technique that is unique to stringed instruments and is used in virtually every style of music. We start by talking about basic hand positioning so you can see what exactly your fret hand should be doing during a bend. We then move [...]
Beginner Guitar Lesson – Mastering Octaves
January 27th, 2010
This lesson focuses on not only how to play octaves across all strings on the guitar, but the theory behind what an octave is as well. Octaves are used all over the place in all types of music from popular to jazz. They create a very full yet airy sound when done correctly. While you [...]
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