Today we will apply alternate picking, sweep picking and string skipping guitar techniques to a fun bluegrass piece from the 1800’s called “Jack Lamson’s Hornpipe”.
This piece offers quite a lot for guitar players. As I mentioned, the song is fun to play and works well at all tempos.
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Finger stretches are often required for performing scales, chords and songs.
The following exercises will help promote flexibility and stretching capability in your fret-hand.
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In this tutorial we look at the guitar technique string skipping. You’ll learn what it is, how to perform it and you’ll learn some guitar technique exercises to help you master it.
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Have you ever wanted to play those spine-tingling lines that sound super-smooth and oh-so fluid?
The key to playing those super-smooth, spine-tingling passages is to master hammer-ons and pull-offs.
Today we will look at how to perform hammer-ons and pull-offs and a great foundation hammer-on and pull-off exercise.
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Alternate picking is the most common and efficient way to play notes on individual strings. To get started with this guitar technique we will look at a basic and very effective alternate picking exercise.
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For the upcoming Labour Day Weekend I thought I would give you a fun alternate picking song to play.
It’s a piece by J. S. Bach.
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