Purpose of this board is to teach you techniques that (I believe) are important to know if you want to be versatile guitar player. Those techniques include alternate, economy, sweep and travis picking, legato, bending, vibrato, hammer on and pull of, tapping, fingerstyle, muting, harmonics etc. Each technique will have a topic for itself and I will post exercises in guitar pro or pdf format. Each exercise will be in form of video (Youtube) or audio file of me demonstrating it (with text explanation).
I hope you will enjoy this board very much and never hesitate to ask questions and share your personal ideas on each technique.

Pedja

Sounds fantastic Pedja

Looking forward to it

Cheers mate

Thank you Robert. I can't wait to see how members will react to it all, very excited about whole learning process

Pedja this is a very cool idea i cant wait to start learning from this board

Thanks a lot my friend, it will be lots of fun and hard work I promise

Really looking forward to this "Travis Picki'n"

Cool !
I am no expert in that field but I do know basics and some pieces using pick and fingers. Will be happy to demonstrate and share that with all of you

Sounds like a very interesting concept Pedja, using some methods from Berklee would definitely be something that would be nice to see here.

Thanks Ivan, I agree with you on that one.

This sounds great, Pedja. As we were speaking about, the proposals and methods that you have planned for this board should be very useful!

Cheers!

awesome, please post it soon

Great idea. You are an awesome teacher, Pedja. Looking very much forward to it.

BTW, what is Travis picking?

It's kinda finger picking chords. A way of playing rythm guitar.

If I'm not mistaken Vai uses it in this video around 1:36

Hybrid picking? I use this quite a lot! Thanks for answering.

Nahh guees its more of a picking pattern

-frederik

That's not hybrid picking. It's thumb and fingers. And has something to do with a bass line and syncopated rythm with the other fingers. I'm not really sure though.

Ok, let's see what Master Pedja says.

Hibrid picking is technique that uses pick and fingers. It also known as Travis picking It is mostly used in chord melody type pieces where pick plays constant bass line while fingers play the melody.

Cool, I was right. Thanks, Pedja.

I thought hybrid picking is often used by players who mainly play with the pick, but they use the middle or ring finger to avoid to skip strings ... of course it has a different sound as well.

Not sure if Steve Vai used hybrid picking at 1:36. The base line has too much punch in my opinion, but you never know with this vai guy .. i guess he could play it perfectly with a pair chopsticks

You welcome Tolek.



You can define hybrid picking in many ways but the idea is pick (or thumb pick) plus fingers. It is applied in all styles of music and guitar players use it because it has different sound from just pick or just fingers