Summary: Every musician and guitar player has their own picking style. Learn how to do a hybrid picking pattern with a pick and your fingers to a beat in this free video clip on musical instruments.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"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."
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