How to Alternate Pick: Beginner's Guide

Welcome to my new video series on how to alternate pick! In this introductory lesson we will cover a lot of fundamentals including:
Pickslanting
Rest strokes
Relaxation
True picking motion
Pick depth
Pick grip
Anchoring
Pick angle
Picking path
String muting
+ a basic single string exercise.

Subscribe and keep watching as I bring out new episodes of this series. Pretty soon we'll get onto multistring playing and the fun can begin!

Please grab a copy of my PDF digital download "40 Developmental Alternate Picking Exercises" from my website's store here:

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[AlfredPotterGuitar]

Of course I would like to acknowledge the marvelous Troy Grady for bringing pickslanting to the attention of lead guitarists like myself. For years I had no idea how I was crossing strings. I just kinda 'did it', and some string crosses were easy and some took a bit more movement/effort. I would like to make an addition to what I say in the video about picking motion: This here is the "forearm rotational" style (used wonderfully by Yngwie Malmsteen and even more so by Chris Brooks). The other main way to pick is the "side-to-side wrist" motion (not demonstrated here). So I thought I'd clear that up. Good luck, friends.

[shivakrishnan]

It's Awesome man..
This lesson will benefit both begginers who want to start picking efficiently...And also intermediate players who need to refine their technique...
Continue the series, it's cool

[miquelmarti]

3 notes per string positions are marvelous to practice that because alternate upstroking becomes crucial to go up the scale efficiently.

[jackmeginniss]

That was an excellent comprehensive lesson on the mechanics of alternate picking. The illustrations were very well done too.

[lafleur]

I've spent ages watching useless videos trying to learn alternate picking when I could simply watch this one and get the full picture..

[saarza]

You have a guitarist's liftstyle. Love your hair

[ishankumar]

THANK YOU!!! No other words can express the amount of happiness I got as soon as I saw this video!

[MGTOW-nnls]

Wow.After watching this video I am having immediate improvement.God bless you Sir.

[mikemiller]

I always look forward to youre vids, you teach so accuratly and explain things so well.Always to the point with no fluff or sillines.Youre a fantastic teacher.

[EOgletree]

Holy shit. Just that first slant picking lesson and im already flowing. Finally starting to get the hang of Snow by RHCP

[Bandmaster]

Thank you for so detailed explanation and elaboration of the true wrist motion!

[shinigamitenshi]

i just love how you managed to be the best amongst overs in uncovering the unclear details about alternate picking technique, which may often confuse the beginners. no one matches your step-by-step, systematic approach. also appreciated the illustrations, thank you ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[VagnerJS]

One of the best videos about alternate picking! Thank you so much!

[TheKellprice]

Wow halfway this video my alternate picking improved more than I could amagine, thx!

[altankuzulu]

Cleanest informative video I’ve seen so far didn’t skip once even I didn’t know what I wanna know

[seanmiller]

I have to give you an immense THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge of playing guitar. I am a still a noob at 49 years of age playing for just under 2 years. I bought your '40 Developmental AP Excercises' and the very first lesson introduces what you call PHI - Picking Hand Isolations. I can honestly say that this simple idea has changed the way I will practice for good. It dawned on me that I could use this concept for anything that I am struggling to play fast and clean. I gave it a go for the simple 'Pentatonic Linear threes A minor' lick from your '40 Scales Sequences'. Very cool sounding lick but I have struggled to get it up to speed and clean. Just the simple idea of isolating picking instantly showed me that I was getting tangled up. 15 minutes later I played the lick and it sounded awesome! Once again Thanks.

[joelgraham]

such a great lesson and teacher - thanks

[qcwarrenbuuren]

Thank you very much, it helps me a lot to continue playing free solo with a backing track

[ajaysinghthakur]

Video illustration was so great, it helped to crack my picking technique. Thank you so much!!

[domichuyt]

I've been playing guitar for 2 and a half years and I hadn't even learnt to alternative pick LMAO, about time I do