The REAL REASON To Learn Hybrid Picking

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[imdragonfruit]

Triad hunter is the greatest explanation I’ve heard for this… ty it now makes sense!

[keithelmo]

Can't wait for this course. I'm just being able to pick up the guitar, sparingly, after a bout with double frozen shoulder and rotator cuff surgery. My luck, a few weeks after I became a member, BAM, I'm out of commission. But the sun is rising and I am very excited for this. I love the melody and and finding it. Such music to my ears. Thanks Michael, what a great thing you have here! Such an awesome teacher and members!

[lazvt]

62 year old....playing since 9....just now learning to hybrid...but..find that a thumb pick is easier and gives me an extra finger to pick with. Having a blast as my playing improves...

[CentipedeBlues]

Beautiful! It helps clarify for me how to think of the 4-voice triads common to the piano on the guitar. I understood the left hand, but didn’t know what to do with the right hand. I will take the class (in due time, though). Thank you!

[kevind]

Can't wait for the course! I've been hybrid picking for a while now and will never not do it! Even with songs I already play I incorporate the technique.

[mattengland]

Totally agree - Hybrid Picking style is the Swiss Army knife of guitar picking technique. It allows for all forms of play. For me, back in 2001 after playing a few years, I picked up a little known album at the time “The Big Come Up” by some obscure band “The Black Keys” and got so frustrated that I couldn’t play “Busted” the first song on the album properly. Dan Auerbach uses a hybrid form that’s kind of a cross between Travis and classical where he almost exclusively uses (or used at the time) his thumb for base notes and only his forefinger / pointer finger for harmony. Personally the thumb never felt right nor the pointer finger, but man when I dedicated myself to by god playing that song I found that for me, using a medium pick with some flexibility for chords and leads, alongside my middle finger was ticket! Took my playing to a whole new level - and like Mike says - never looked back! Lessons are great of course, I think if you have a player you really love and you really know the song, get some good tabs and sit down and try to work it out and see what feels comfortable - there are many hybrid variations and no “wrong” way if you ask me! Great video though!

[DavidSmith-fzxk]

At 2:50 the notes you play sound exactly like the beginning of the American National Anthem.

Check it!

Cannot wait for this course!

[CliffGraham]

Seriously great explanation and sales pitch here!

[PsychedelicCheeseburgers]

I've avoided hybrid picking and any finger picking forever, but today I watched your 5 year old video on the GuitarGate intro lick, and I spent about an hour learning to play it pretty good, and now I can't wait for the Hybrid Picking course to come out, because I find the GuitarGate Intro Lick sounds better hybrid picked, but for me it's much easier to use a pick than my fingers right now, the finger-picking is unnatural and tough for me at the moment! Do I need to grow my right-hand fingernails? I don't know if I can stand to grow them longer because I'm so used to having short nails, but I dunno.

[CD-gkix]

Brent Hinds from Mastodon is beast hybrid picker

[ericsills]

I was stuck at a skl level for years until I decided to commit to learning to hybrid pick.

[robineliason]

I will definitely watch this course when you get it up, but as someone who started as a fingerpicker, I am failing to see what advantage this has over finger picking. I actually have one more digit available to me as a fingerpicker, thumb and three fingers on my picking hand as opposed to holidng the pick with the thumb and index this way, leaving me only two fingers to pick with.

[Vern]

I have tried to hybrid pick, and i can not do it. Im not coordinated enough. I have been flatpicking for so many years, and im getting old and my fingers dont work well at times.
Sometimes i try to hybrid pick but i just can not hit the notes i want and just sounds bad. Then i go back to flatpicking, and everything is good..
🤷‍♂️👋

[jukejointjack]

Michael, Head down to the filmore tonight for the record company show. I’ll put you plus one on the guest list

[AlexMasonGuitar]

Is this course coming out soon? Been waiting patiently ever since you made this video haha

[MultiCugel]

Looking forward to learning hybrid picking!

[guenterjaklitsch]

Please do a video on Marcus deml. You may thing who ? He´s the most dynamic player i`ve everseen. He´s from germany. Keep up your great work michael. Thanks.

[stevebrewin]

Hi Micheal just watched your Tori Amos reaction!! Been a fan of Tori for years and years and was lucky enough to see her twice in the 90’s, would love to see you react to U2? Lots of guitarists have strong opinions on The Edge would love to hear yours? By the way I live in Donington…as in Monsters of Rock and Download festivals fame…

[ispeakmucho]

Still on the fence about hybrid versus full on fingerstyle.

[justinmassey]

I dismissed hybrid picking as a country thing, but it’s only been in the past 2-3 years I realized (after 19 years playing guitars) that guys like Eric Johnson and Mateus Asato use hybrid picking all the time. Super excited for this course, happy to be a lifetime member at GuitarGate