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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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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A great way to improve your alternate picking is to work on a song that focuses on this very important lead guitar technique. J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Number 5, first movement, is a great alternate picking workout for the intermediate to advanced lead guitar player.
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