How to Fix Your Picking Technique and How to Play Fast

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How to Fix Your Picking Technique and How to Play Fast
In this video I will show you how to fix you picking technique or how you can have a proper picking technique. I've been teaching guitar for more than 20 years an 99% of my new students were holding the pick index and thumb dominant.
To play fast properly you need to use your wrist since the wrist is the most important element of the picking technique.
When you play with the finger dominant picking technique you can't engage your wrist. To fix that you have to lock the pick under the thumb joint. Additionally, the rest of the fingers should be intact to minimize finger movement. With this technique, you'll get more precise and louder sound.
Once you engage your wrist and improve strength and dexterity you can start relaxing your picking hand in time.

Please use your wrist and try to increase your speed gradually.

If you are struggling to play fast you can check my How To Play Fast video
In that video, you will learn deep secrets of alternate picking technique, how to practice efficiently and how to play fast and clean like Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, Al di Meola... :)

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[bluestringmusic]

Cant tell you how much this helped my technique when you first told me about it. Wrist picking FTW !!

[brianw.]

Another really good and overlooked tip is when you're trying to pick like this, if you can't do it fully relaxed and effortless, play to a metronome really slow until you can. Literally force yourself to no even touch the guitar unless you can play without flexing your muscles. That helped me not only get better but I broke barriers I never expected to break. Thanks for your content btw!

[michaelr.]

He is totally correct. The hard part is committing to switching to a wrist-dominant style of picking after playing for 31 years. haha

[funkmasterflex]

This video is the answer to my problems. I can't believe such a small change has made a big impact on my playing. Thank you so much!!!!

[aaronbradshaw]

Just learned this yesterday and my playing is so different already - way more precise and the sound is better.

[williamwinn]

my biggest problem is getting my right hand to keep up with my left, since I'm a lefty that plays right handed. Awesome Advice.

[jimjimjim]

i am in shock that the answer was that simple, this video helped so much.

[saiko]

This video legit helped me fix my picking technique within less than 10 seconds, LOL! It actually works :)

[cleangoblin]

Well dang. Thank you so much. Ive been stuck with this certain fast paced riff and i couldnt do it with my usual picking style

[Front_Hole]

Thank you for this concise and incredibly helpful advice! I'm just like your students in that I've allowed my fingers to play a more dominant role in my picking than my wrist, not realizing how much of a problem that was. Now it's much more clear what I should be doing!

[lil_juice]

this helped so fucking much 😭😭 i needed this for my system song im learning and i couldn’t get fast enough bc im still starting out a bit

[jeshwanthchalla]

This video helps alott!!! Thank you very much.. Had gone through so many videos but this video is very clear and helpful!!

[LuciousMidnite]

I just took the same logic i used for tremolo picking and instead of applying it to one note per string i did 3 note per string then 4 and now 2 years later practicing shredding and sweep picking learning songs are so easy now because getting things up to speed always delayed the process and i could only play that certain lick or riff fast now when i learn a song i can play fast in general now so not only is it easier to learn full songs and faster but the ease makes it easier for you to take in the lick and play it properly in order to get the right tempo and feel under your fingers and get it up to the same speed every time timing is one if the most important things when it comes to making runs you want to know exactly what note to emphasize in your run and that comes with learning good timing shredding is definitely important and we say shredding but really its just alternate picking at high tempos learn that and A LOT of the techniques you learn will be substantially easier to learn and play.

[OUNCEBeats]

this is insane how much this helped immediate thank you so much

[jamelcollins]

Was trying to learn one by metallica and that alternate picking was killing me. :'(

[Maicontheodoro]

This video was perfect, i was Full o answer about pick, and this was Very helpful.

[arielmanto]

Ohh... I play guitar for several years. Once I talked to a guy who teaches to play guitar and he said my picking technique isn't quite right but there's no sense to change anything bc it takes a lot of time and if I play like this for years it's OK.
Now I need to increase my tempo and I came back to the thought to change my technique. I'll try your method, maybe it'll help, thank you!

[gendwa]

This already sounds so much better thank you!

[trendkill]

Just realized Ace Frehley has been doin this the whole time it it all makes sense now✨💚

[dennisgjoka]

Thanks a lot man, really changed my technique for the better!