Texas Blues Alley Essential Techniques Picking. A detailed look at the importance of picking technique and lots of exercises to help you improve your accuracy. Picking isn’t exciting. It’s not very noticeable, and you don’t even have to study it to become a good player. Someday, however, you will try to learn something that will remain out of reach unless you improve your picking technique.
How do I know? Because it happened to me. After a decade of playing, I finally ran into a wall that forced me to work on my picking technique. Picking is a 90-minute lesson that shows you what I had to learn to get past that wall. Don’t worry; I’m not trying to turn you into a shredder or finger-picking expert. This lesson is very down-to-earth, practical, and easily applied.
Part 1: Introduction. At the start of this lesson I'll explain why picking is such an important part of your overall technique, and how I learned that the hard way.
Part 2: Picking Styles. In this section I'll give you a very practical introduction to several different styles of picking. For each style, I'll give guidelines for what each style is most useful for, and you'll see closeup shots of each style in use.
Part 3: Picking Ingredients. In this section we'll explore different ingredients in your picking technique that all play a part in your sound. Holding the pick; Wrist angle; Where to pick; The other fingers; Picking Motion; Hammer-ons / Pull-offs
Part 4: Key Points. In this section we'll look at a few key aspects of picking that determine at how good your technique will be. Accuracy; Speed / Endurance; Timing; Synchronization
Part 5: Exercises. In the last section I'll go through 18 different exercises that force you to work on your picking accuracy, timing, and synchronization with your fretting hand.
The Essential Techniques courses are a deep dive into the "thumb-over" technique used by nearly every famous blues and blues rock guitarist.
This style of handling the guitar is as old as the blues itself. It is not "correct" or "proper" guitar technique - at least not by academic standards - but it is nearly ubiquitous in blues and blues rock.
Essential Techniques is the best collection of courses on this subject that you'll find anywhere. These are not easy, fun courses. They are physically demanding, and require incredible attention to detail. But if you're serious about sounding like SRV, Hendrix, or any other number of famous blues or rock guitarists, an investment in your technique pays huge dividends.
Language: English
Year: 2017
Running time: 90 min
Quality: WEBrip
Video: AVC, 1280x720, 29.970 fps, 5124 Kbps
Audio: 48.0 KHz, AAC, 2 ch, 128 Kbps
Booklet: Yes (PDF)
Size: 1.63 Gb
