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Step 1
Turn up your gain/distortion. Get your amp to where anything you play on the guitar's fretboard is amped up and "crunchy". This is essential to making pick scratching sound good.
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Step 2
Mute the strings by putting your picking hand near the bridge.
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Step 3
Play a few notes or chords, adding just the right amount of tension with your picking hand, so that the sound rings out but is quickly silenced.
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Step 4
Try playing with the side of your pick. For pick scratching, instead of plucking the strings, you're attacking them with the blunt side of the pick, making a scratchy sound (hence the name of the technique.)
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Step 5
Add additional pick scratching sound by running the pick down the strings as you hit them. This will give you the same sharp, crunchy sound but with a sliding melodic tone.










