Intro to Alternate Picking- Guitar
guitar beginner
In this lesson
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- 🔒 Reason & Rule
- 🔒 Patterns
- 🔒 Adding Frets & Syncopation
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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Wes Pittman
Third time coming back to this lesson over two years. It's amazing what shows up when you're ready for it.
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SlowHandSteve
Try it without the pick for a few passes. Sounds silly but it told me my right hand was doing too much.
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FifthStringFred
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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Marcy Kern
Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.
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Katie Clark Support
Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.
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Patty Lindstrom
The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.
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