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Category Archives: Picking

Cool Arpeggiated Riffs with Triads

Cool Arpeggiated Riffs with Triads

Here’s another lesson for you riff-hungry rocksters out there! One cool way that you can start looking for new chords to use is to examine the top few strings of the bar chords. Here’s a tip – if the notes are used in a chord, then they’re going to sound great together in a solo!…

Easy Fingerpicking Patterns

Easy Fingerpicking Patterns

Today I’ve got another one of those fairly easy fingerpicking patterns for you and your guitar. I used a very simple and mellow chord progression in this lesson, and there are literally tons of different directions you could go with it. I tried to give you a couple of different ideas on how you can…

Finger Picking on Guitar – An Easy Technique

Finger Picking on Guitar – An Easy Technique

I know there’s a fair amount of interest in different guitar finger picking techniques – and truthfully I’m sure you could do an entire course just on finger picking – so I decided to do a little lesson on one of the finger picking techniques that I like to use. I like finger picking with…

Finger Exercises for Guitar

Finger Exercises for Guitar

Here’s a lesson on finger exercises for guitar. As a guitar player, you are forever strengthening your fingers, not to mention practicing your scales! So, why not do both at the same time? To be honest, while I was recording this lesson I could feel it in my own fingers… proof positive that these exercises…

Beginner’s Tips for Guitar Picking

Beginner’s Tips for Guitar Picking

I recently ran a poll asking you guys what you wanted to learn most on the guitar, and guitar picking came in a dead tie with strumming (both at 26%) and seeing as I’ve already done a lesson on strumming, I figured it was time to even the score and get one in on picking…