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Advanced Guitar Lesson – Economy Picking

In Advanced Guitar Lessons | on December, 29, 2009 | by | 7 Comments

In this lesson we will focus on learning the theory behind economy picking as well as practice a few exercises to develop it.

Economy picking is basically the combination of alternate and sweep picking. It produces a smoother sound than straight alternate picking and requires far less effort in the picking hand.

If you have never tried economy picking before, it may take a little getting used to. But, after a short while you will see just how much economy picking can add to your playing.

I believe that you should try to master both economy AND alternate picking because they are both different sounds that you want at your fingertips. A lot of players tend to preach all alternate or all economy, but I believe the more versatile you are the better.

Don’t forget to download the PDF file for this lesson, because the picking indications are very important.

Economy Picking PDF

Start slow and try to make all the notes as even as possible AND try and take it through all the 3 notes per string forms.

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Economy Picking

7 Responses

12.29.09

Great Lessons! Very informative.This will help for many aspiring guitarist out there. I been using it too its a great technique to learn. Cheers!

12.29.09

Thanks I appreciate it, I am going to be doing more economy picking lessons soon so please keep checking back for more. Carl..

12.29.09

very helpful lesson, i’ve always tried to play a scale fast with alternate picking…

12.29.09

thank you for all my friend, my inglish is very bad, from argentina!

12.29.09

i am confused, is it better to not use the pick at all when doing hammer on and pull off riffs such as legato, or should you pick the next string when you move down

12.29.09

Hey Jake, they are both perfectly valid ways of playing legato that you should practice.

Not using a pick will give a slightly smoother sound but is more difficult to play. You will probably find times that you would prefer the sound of one of them over the other but you want to be able to do both just in case. :D

Carl..

12.29.09

hey, nice lessons, im from brazil and i like very much your work.
congratulations.

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