[This piece comes from my Guitar Technique Booster Course. It’s focused on the basic fretting hand guitar technique and has been lightly adapted for this article.] As I wrote in my article The Fundamental Picking-Hand Mechanics of Alternate Picking: Imagine walking into a gym, grabbing the heaviest weights, and lifting with poor posture. Does adding […]
The Secret Fix for Sloppy Alternate Picking: Master the Right-Hand Motion First [This piece comes from my Guitar Technique Booster Course. It’s focused on the fundamental picking-hand mechanics and has been lightly adapted for this article.] Imagine walking into a gym, grabbing the heaviest weights, and lifting with poor posture. Does adding more weight
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Before we’ll delve into the alternate picking vs economy picking battle, let me ask you a question: Do painters use the same direction of brush strokes when painting, or do they alternate between up and downstrokes? The correct answer is… It depends. On what? On the texture, they want to achieve. This is the
You know that you need to improve your alternate picking. But searching for random exercises online is not what it make this happen. In this article, I’ll be showing you a strategic point of view on what categories of alternate picking there are and thus what kind of exercises you should practice. After reading this,
[The 6 Essential & Advanced Electric Guitar Techniques is the Part II of an article series regarding guitar techniques in detail. If you haven’t read Part I yet, click the link, it’s a must-read: The 8 Most Important (And Easy) Guitar Techniques.] If you’ve already read my story, you probably know that I took my first lesson
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Summer 2021. I was invited to compose music for a radio-theatrical project for a popular FM Radio in Greece. It was a challenging project as each character’s emotions should be projected only via speaking and not by any movements or facial expressions. So, before starting composing, I arranged to attend a rehearsal. The director would