Guitar Lessons - A Great Way To Hold The Guitar Pick Or Plectrum
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Here's a great tip for beginners learning to play the electric guitar. Most guitar playing is done using a pick or plectrum to strum the strings. If you don't hold the pick or guitar plectrum correctly you will find it a lot harder to progress so here's how you do it.
A very effective way to hold the pick is to hold it between your thumb and index finger and to hold it with only a very small amount of the pick protruding. When you strum the strings you will need to angle the pick allowing ir to glide across the strings rather than dig in. Try to use your wrist rather than you elbow to strum as you'll find it much easier and have more control.
Practice this by strumming one easy chord at a time until is sounds melodic and each string rings out evenly.
As I mention in most of these tips and tricks a picture is worth a thousand words and in my Audio/Video program being released shortly you will get full audio/video tuition so you will be able to see and hear exactly what is being shown to you and you will be able to play it back to yourself over and over again.
I always tend to try to give you more than one great tip each week in this series of articles... This is no exception so here's goes with your second tip.
This next tip is a great alternative to strumming your guitar and will make you sound really cool.
So, as an alternative to strumming we will now try to pick out each note of the chord in a regular order.
First we need a chord progression to work with. So for this exercise let's use G, D, C, D.
Holding down a G major chord follow tis picking order: Play the bass note of the chord (which will be on the 6th string) then pick the 3rd followed by the 2nd string and then pick the 3rd again.
Now to cover one bar play the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 2nd strings. Follow the chord sequence for one bar of each chord remembering the bass note for D os the 4th string and for C it is on the 5th string.
Play this chord progression with this picking style over and over againfor a really cool sounding guitar piece. Tip: Check out "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton (especially the verses!).
For all you guys that are relative beginners it may sound a little confusing. Don't worry! My full home study DVD course will cover everything you need to know in a step by step chronological order bringing your guitar playing on as fast as possible. There you go for now, take care
Until next week. Mike
Here's a great tip for beginners learning to play the electric guitar. Most guitar playing is done using a pick or plectrum to strum the strings. If you don't hold the pick or guitar plectrum correctly you will find it a lot harder to progress so here's how you do it.
A very effective way to hold the pick is to hold it between your thumb and index finger and to hold it with only a very small amount of the pick protruding. When you strum the strings you will need to angle the pick allowing ir to glide across the strings rather than dig in. Try to use your wrist rather than you elbow to strum as you'll find it much easier and have more control.
Practice this by strumming one easy chord at a time until is sounds melodic and each string rings out evenly.
As I mention in most of these tips and tricks a picture is worth a thousand words and in my Audio/Video program being released shortly you will get full audio/video tuition so you will be able to see and hear exactly what is being shown to you and you will be able to play it back to yourself over and over again.
I always tend to try to give you more than one great tip each week in this series of articles... This is no exception so here's goes with your second tip.
This next tip is a great alternative to strumming your guitar and will make you sound really cool.
So, as an alternative to strumming we will now try to pick out each note of the chord in a regular order.
First we need a chord progression to work with. So for this exercise let's use G, D, C, D.
Holding down a G major chord follow tis picking order: Play the bass note of the chord (which will be on the 6th string) then pick the 3rd followed by the 2nd string and then pick the 3rd again.
Now to cover one bar play the 1st, 2nd 3rd and 2nd strings. Follow the chord sequence for one bar of each chord remembering the bass note for D os the 4th string and for C it is on the 5th string.
Play this chord progression with this picking style over and over againfor a really cool sounding guitar piece. Tip: Check out "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton (especially the verses!).
For all you guys that are relative beginners it may sound a little confusing. Don't worry! My full home study DVD course will cover everything you need to know in a step by step chronological order bringing your guitar playing on as fast as possible. There you go for now, take care
Until next week. Mike
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