Guitar Picking Style Tips

Video Transcript

"In this example what I'm going to show is a kind of a finger style except I'm going to be using a pick so it's actually a hybrid kind of picking is what they call where I'm using pick and fingers. And a, what I'm going to do is play E Major passage finger picked and your hybrid picked rather over a basic drum beat. So what I'm going to do here is start with E on the D string on the second fret on the D string and using my pinky on the fourth fret of the G, or I'm sorry, on the high E string which is G# and playing the a, the B and the G open. So I'm going to be going or actually just the B string so. Then sliding up to four and five on the D and the E strings and then the fifth and seventh fret on the D and E strings, back to the four and five and then back to second and fourth on the, you know, which is the E chords. The root note so, so played over a basic drum beat it'll sound like this. So what I'm doing there again is just doing a simple finger style pattern over basic drum beat and could sound very good for a song you might write in the rock style."