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Intro to Alternate Picking- Guitar

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  1. 2 How to Tune Your Guitar
  2. 3 Guitar Pick Hand Study
  3. 4 How to Read Guitar Tab
  4. 5 Intro to Alternate Picking- Guitar — you are here
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  6. 7 Pick Hand Exercise
  7. 8 How to Change Your Guitar Strings

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There are some techniques so crucial that you'll learn and use them throughout your whole life playing guitar... this is one of them. In this lesson, you'll learn the fundamental concept of alternate picking, the reason and purpose behind it, and several exercises to help you apply it! Let's dive in!

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