Fix your picking with these simple exercises

Do you struggle to play guitar solos and riffs smoothly up and down the fretboard? It's possible that it has more to do with your right hand technique -- your picking technique!
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I've seen so many guitar students come for lessons here over the years and many who are self-taught guitar players have a common problem: they still haven't made strict alternate picking their habit. It needs to be such a habit that we don't even think about it and that it becomes our go-to method for most scale wise playing, riffs, solos and more. These three simple exercises will help you to determine if you need to make corrections to your picking technique and to improve your technique so you can play riffs, melodies and solos on the guitar fluidly and fast.

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[@eclecticwhyzass]

8:40 belies the term strict when you end with two down strokes for economy. But I get the drift. I personally never think about it--picking just happens.Trying to be strict takes more mental power than just picking, but I guess we all have our dogmas. You Rock Groovy One!

[@scoobydoo4087]

Another very helpful lesson Blue

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks as always! Appreciate your support 😎

[@stevecrockett6619]

Second! 😂 Sunny PNW wishes from Seattle! Super lesson Blue!

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Thank you!!! Lots of sun here today :)

[@FirstLast-nn2bj]

Another good lesson! Thanks!

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Thanks for watching and commenting :)

[@josealbaposse]

Que buena lección Blue!!!! Abz desde Mendoza, Argentina.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Gracias José!!!

[@Andy_E.2677]

Alternate is not Economic, and before Eco, you must learn the Alternate correctly, thats what i need to do.. i thought a long time wrong, and correct my failures to be better in good picking. thx for the good Lessons you do!👍

[@trusarmor4957]

always a great a Vid.
👏👏👏

[@dawin6710]

I play everything using finger picking except for some faster rhythm chords playings.😲

[@jackbenimble99999]

Self-taught - and flunked the first test!

[@arielsason1338]

how you take a hammer on and pull off, at the up dawn counting?

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

A hammer or a pull will usually replace one of those down or up picks. It depends on the rhythm. We have an exercise on our Patreon Main Stage level to practice that www.patreon.com/posts/102242624

[@trusarmor4957]

2:20 in my wildest Dream!
this brisk a fly thru of Sting and spotless tones.
i mean what is Even the speed a of a good 'Average' run ?
i mean i know it when i hear it .. but what BPM is ... Dare i say... 'Average'.

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

That passage is faster than we would need for most songs, true. Keep in mind it's not always about BPM though, because it can be subdivided as eights, triplets, sixteenths. So BPM doesn't really tell the whole story. But generally speaking, eighth notes at 180 bpm are a good target to be able to play that without a sweat ... eventually with practice :)

[@jethroburns]

How do hammer ons and hammer offs fit into alternative picking?

[@GuitarLessonsVancouver]

Tough to answer in a comment but generally speaking it means your pick is skipping a beat so it would end up being either down hammer down. Or up hammer up. But it depends on the rhythm. Quarter notes or longer notes mean we don't need to alternate everything

[@jethroburns]

Thanks for your helpful reply. That's what I suspected.