Learn What Strings to Pick on the Acoustic Guitar

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Part of the video series: How to Play Acoustic Guitar

Summary: Picking the large guitar strings down and the smaller ones up achieves the best sound on your acoustic guitar. Learn more in this free video series.

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By Tom Smith
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Tom Smith has been a singer & musician for 25 years. He has also worked as a part-time music teacher. Tom has toured with various music bands including look a like Beatles bands where...read more

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"Hi, this is Tom. This video is for Expert Village.com, and we're talking in this segment about how we can pick the guitar, same chords we've learned, but picking pattern. We talked about picking these two larger strings down and then these two higher strings back the other way. So I'm picking those two high strings up, these two strings I'm picking down. That was a G. I go to my C chord and it's the same picking pattern, but now I'm picking the strings where my fingers are, same two top strings. And then my D chord, I'm going to do the same thing only starting with this. One, two, three, four - fourth from the bottom, there. Down, and then back to the G. So those three chords, you pick two of them down and then the two lowest strings down and the two highest strings you pick up. Then you can put it together in transitions again, G, C to D. So I'll go, to a C, to a D. Nice and pretty."