Tips To Speed Up Your Picking

Okay friends, this time I will discuss a little about picking techniques and how to speed up our picking skill. Fine, I immediately began just.

Picking is a technique for strumming a guitar but using a tool called pick. This technique is the basic of a good guitar, because there would be no ability to play guitar well without picking good also.

Every professional guitar player would be able to play this technique with very good and very fast too, even They play without the slightest error.

Now, I'll give some tips to all my friends, so that we can accelerate our picking.

1. Hold the pick with a good position

This is affecting how our picking speed in playing guitar. basically a good position to hold the pick is by leaving about 3 mm from the tip of the pick.

2. Pick guitar Up and Down

mean when we play guitar, we have to pick it up and then down. This course will greatly affect our picking speed, because if we just pick the guitar up or down by constantly going slower than pick guitar by Up and Down.

3. Give ballast motion on the finger

This case i often do when I want to accelerate my picking ability. I tied a rubber usually on my fingers then I started playing guitar. Initially I felt the pain and stiffness in my fingers, but when I remove the rubber, so my fingers became more light to be moved.

4. Exercise

Without exercise, all the tips I give to you must not be useful. Train your ability constantly, slowly surely you are be advanced.

Okay, it was the little tips that I give to you all my friends. Wish it be useful for you.

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Bark At The Moon (Guitar Cover)

Hi guys..

I will tell you less about Bark At The Moon song.. this is so technical hardrock song who created by Ozzy Osbourne. This song is so interested for me,,the tones is so comfort in my ears. and I think you will feel the same think with me after you hear this song.

This song is also fill in the game Guitar Hero, and so difficult to play this song. And now,, i will give you a videos about guitar cover of bark at the moon, and I hope you will be enjoyed to listen this guitar cover. And if you want to download this song. You can click here DOWNLOAD

Oke,,enjoyed to see this video.

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Sweep Picking

Sweep picking is a difficult technique of playing guitar. why I say difficult? because the technique requires speed, both in picking and finger movements. The technique is usually used for rock songs or songs that are fast tempo game even very fast. The technique is usually played in the form of arpeggios. Famous guitarists who often use this technique is Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe satriani, Paul Gilbert, and many more. To perform this technique is quite complicated way, but if you are serious you definitely can.
To know how to do sweep picking, please CLICK HERE....
Okay, after you know it. I will give you a few tips to master this technique quickly and easily.
First, train your fingering techniques every day. This is done to increase your speed.

Second, Try to add your knowledge about guitar scales. Or learn the tones arpeggios. Because this technique will be better heard if you use a tone arpeggios.

Third, It is most important. Train your sweep picking every day.
Good luck.

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how to tune a guitar

Guitar tuning is a technique on the guitar to adjust the guitar tone to produce a good sound. Basically, there are 3 ways that can be used to tune the guitar, That is :
1. By using the tuner
This is a way of tuning the guitar with the help of a tool called "TUNER".
How to use it's easy, you just need to install the tuner on your guitar then you live excerpt from guitar strings and adjust the sound on the strings with the tone on-screen display tuner. If not appropriate, then turn the knob until the sound your guitar your guitar tone in accordance with the display on the tuner.

2. With the help of piano
This is a way of tuning the guitar with the help of the piano. The trick is not so different from using the tuner, we just need to adjust our guitar tone on tone on the piano by rotating the knob to tune our guitars fit.

3. Manual
This is the simplest way of tuning the guitar, because it does not use any tools. all you need is your ability to adjust the tone on the guitar. For more details,see the sample video.

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Guitar scales

Hey friend, after studying the development of guitar techniques. Now we enter the next step, that is scales on the guitar. In the play the guitar, we need to know the scales, because this will affect the color of music that we play.
1. Pentatonic
This is the basic scales to play blues, rock, and jazz songs.
These scales consist of major and minor. The different between major and minor are only located on the tone of the base. if major basic tone is 'do', while the minor is 'la'. for more details, see the video.
2. Diminished
This is the basic scales to play jazz songs. These scales have a unique arrangement of tones, as well as jazz tunes. Therefore, to develop these scales is very difficult and must often practice. for example video.

3. Augmented
Similarly with diminished scales, augmented scales also a foundation for playing jazz songs. But augmented is different with diminished. In augmented, the composition of the scale is more commonly done with arpeggios (usally done by sweep picking technique). So that you are not confused, this is the video.

4. Dorian
Dorian scales are scales generally you may already know. These scales consist of tone do re mi fa sol la si do'. These scales are also often called Lydian scales. This is a sample video.

Okay friend, now is the time to practice again. good luck friend.

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Guitar Technique

okay,,after struggling to master the fingering and basic technique on the guitar, now we will enter to the skill development level. Here I will discuss what techniques can we develop the basic techniques we've mastered.

1.Speed picking
This development of the picking techniques. This technique requires picking a fairly quick and clean. So that will produce a cool sound, and you definitely like. These techniques usually used more for rock songs. speed picking exercises

2.Tapping
Tapping is a development of technique and the pull of hammer on technique. But how to play it rather than be picked using a pick. apping also many kinds-kinds, some use 2 fingers, four fingers or even 8 fingers. This technique has a high difficulty level, so watch carefully this lesson video.

3.Sweep picking
This technique is also the development of picking technique, but different from the speed picking. This technique is done to ring a few tones on different strings, but done only with a one-time picking up and picking one down. This technique is usually used for rock songs and jazz. click the sample video

4.Whammy Bar
Whammy bar is a technique that can only be done on electric guitar that has tremolo. This technique is a lot of variations, but the most interested me was when doing pinch harmonic technique and then proceed by doing whammy bar, it will produce a very cool sound. Here I will provide video whammy bar made by mas poncho Satrio. lesson video.

okay, that was a description of the technique development of basic techniques on the guitar. continued ability to practice your Bergitar, do not give up without learning to learn it because you'll never get. Good luck friend ..!!!

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Basic Guitar Techniques

After you learn and begin to master the fingering in playing guitar. Next I will discuss the basic technique of guitar. But before entering to learn the basic technique, it would be much better if you are already familiar with the various guitar chords. Here I will give you a link to download the chord-chord guitar. guitar chords
Okay, after you know the chords on the guitar, now I'll introduce to you the basic techniques of playing guitar.


1. Picking
This is a guitar technique when you moving the guitar pick(tool for picking the guitar) by up-down to hit the strings. Instead of you confused, I will provide links to examples the practice. example picking technique

2. Pull of
By the time you hit the strings 2 fingers on different frets, but at the same string, then you release the pressure with one of your fingers on the strings that accompanied the passage. that is what is called the Pull of. for more details, please see this link. example of the pull technique

3. Hammer on
This is the opposite of the pull of technique. If the pull of your finger pressing the string and then take it off, then the hammer on technique, one finger and then when you hit the strings plucked strings of your other fingers press the strings on the frets the same but different. This is an example of the hammer on technique. examples of techniques hammer on

4. Slide
Slide guitar is a technique where when your finger is pressing a string and then when you pluck the strings, you slide the finger that is pressing the strings to the frets else but still on the same string. This is an example of a slide technique. sample slide technique

5. Bending
This is a guitar technique where you press a finger at the guitar strings, then you pick and fingers are still pressing the strings, you push up or down. This is an example of practice. example bending technique

6. Vibrato
Vibrato is a technique in which the guitar when your finger is pressing a string, then you pick, and then you move your finger to the up or down. This is the example of vibrato technique. example of vibrato technique

7. Pinch harmonics
This technique is called harmonization. This technique is done by touching the fingers on the strings that you want to sound. Remember, only touched not pressed. this is the example.

All six of these techniques is the basis of playing guitar which can be developed into the more cool and complex guitar technique. Once again good luck friends.

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Fingering Guitar Technique

Guitar is one instrument that the way to play it by picked.
Here I want to share the knowledge in playing the guitar.
First, you have mastered the basics of guitar playing technique itself, that is fingering (warming up before playing the guitar). Although it's hears simple, and looks boring, but it can affect to "your speed" in playing the guitar.
Here I will give you a link of some fingering videos which is usually done by a professional guitarist.

1. Joe Satriani

fingering exercises by joe satriani

2. Paul Gilbert

fingering exercises by Paul Gilbert

3. Eric Johnson

eric johnson's style fingering exercises

4. Slash

slash's style fingering exercises

to produce your guitar skill be a super skill, I recommend that you
do the fingering at least 2 hours a day. Good luck friend ..!!!

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