Guitar Workout: Speed Picking, Sweeps, Arpeggios & Harmony for the Modern Guitarist

See another example of Travispicking on a left handed guitar with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip. Expert: Stephen Haendiges Bio: Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with more than 15 years of experience. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

If you want an all round picking technique for guitar, choose Travis picking. The Travis referred to in the name is Merle Travis, the country guitar legend who not only invented a guitar picking style but also had a few hits with his songwriting. Travis picking originally just used the thumb and index finger but was extended to the use of the second and third fingers by Chet Atkins in the mistaken belief that Travis could not possibly be getting his sound by the use of just one finger.

For a VERY select crowd. If you want to make and play a LEFT-handed guitar, this is for you. I am sorry about the sound quality, the built-in mic is not very good, and the tempo is SLOW, but it will be over before you know it. Cotten picking derives its name from Elizabeth Cotten (not Cotton). It is a term attributed to left-handed guitar pickers playing a normally strung (right-handed) guitar, and as in this video, the opposite. So I am right-handed, and I am attempting to play a LH guitar after a week of rehearsal. My purpose was to get into the mind of Elizabeth Cotten (ao). This video is a side product. The main messages that I want to get across are: – How to reverse a (Spanish) guitar. – It’s not harder to play it upside down if you dedicate the same amount of years to it. – A left-handed beginner can safely pick up a RH guitar and see how it feels. – Repeat: if you dedicate the same amount of years…. – Reverse chord diagrams in your head, it’s easy. – Reggae solo guitarists might have an advantage with Cotten picking?

Sweeping lesson:If you have never used sweep picking this is for you. Also, more advanced sweepers might learn some tricks to improve their sweeping tone as well. Contains: * Right hand exercise * Left hand exercise * Hand Synchronization exercise * Advanced illustration of sweep picking * Immature humour This lesson is inspired by a live video video clinic I held at GMC: www.guitarmasterclass.net

The response from Andrew Wasson , of Creative Guitar Studio, to: “I have a question that got me struggling for days… I didn’t find a lot of information about flat picking online. Is there a good or correct way to pick when playing single notes? My pinky and my middle-finger are always resting on the guitar… Is this a bad habit? Ive seen a lot of players have their hand resting on the bridge or at least near the bridge… Thanks in Advance! – Julien1345 Watch as the best guitar teacher on YouTube – Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio – covers the concepts of how guitar players can develop the ability to pick with their right hand or left hand – if you’re a lefty – and achieve higher accuracy and better faster picking technique overall. Download the tab for the Classical Piece below: www.andrewwasson.com Official Website: www.andrewwasson.com Follow on Twitter twitter.com MySpace: www.myspace.com Facebook: www.facebook.com

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Have you ever wondered how guitarists play so clean and fast with articulate picking control? This is an issue that has many of us scratching our heads, and some of us flat out stumped!!

There is a solution that works for everyone, if you want it bad enough.

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