Lead Guitar Speed Picking Tips

Video Transcript

"Okay, in this example I'm going to play over A and F major, and pretty much what I'm going to do here is use a little bit of technical playing, like some kind of speed pick passages with melodic phrasing, and over the music it sounds like this. What I did there, even though it's kind of overplaying, but sometimes it's kind of fun, you can just kind of let loose. Especially if you're playing live, do a little bit of melodic playing, and then just kind of rip and then kind of end on a melodic note. And in this case again was like a tap harmonic. I went--you know did a tap harmonic. And some of the things like going, kind of like ripping a little bit. Sometimes it's fun to do. You don't have to play slow or bending all the time. Melodic passages like--just pretty much use your imagination where you want to go from there."