Why should YOU learn Hybrid Picking? What are the benefits of using both the pick and right hand fingers?

An etude for your practice routine. This also can be used as a warm-up exercise.

Takes you through some alternate picking chops that should help you build a strong a clean technique.

Tangos is a rythmical style, and is a good way to learn a flamenco groove. Play this "falseta" with a hand clapping backing track, like in a real flamenco party.

Finger placement is one of the greatest best kept secret of better guitar playing. Let's get to work!

Improve your timing and rhythm-playing precision! The lesson starts out with a simple variation of a few different chords. The same chords are used for the 2nd part of the song, but the trick here is to get rhythm and timing right as there is an odd time-signature feel going on, but it is 4/4.

Alternate picking etude.

Cool funky groovin and a funk rhythm technique called the triplets. It is commonly used in funk to give a special character to the rhythm.

We will start scratching (ghost note) all sixteenth-notes (four per beat) with a constant down/up strumming, muting the strings laying lightly an E9 chord (the James Brown Chord), and adding pressure to play different accents.