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Classic Forum Threads : Picking

 

 
  Best of Ney Mello pages
 
  Playing one note per string passages
 
  Picking hand wrist movement
 
  Ney's picking technique.
 
  Picking arpeggios
 
  Excercise to improve string skipping
 
  Wrist and elbow movement when switching strings.
 
  Pinkie crutch
 
  Moving pick with the fingers
 
  Alternate picking arpeggios
 
  Using wrist in picking
 
  Problem executing a downpick as described in the Principles.
 
  Forearm movement in picking
 
  Picking a single string
 
  Jimmy Bruno's technique and the "right" muscle to use when picking
 
  Should there be an arc in the hand when doing the right hand string shifting excercise?
 
  Economy picking vs. alternate picking
 
  Components of right arm/wrist/hand motion at slow speeds
 
  Should the pick hand move in an arc?
 
  Instructional book on mandolin is very contradictory to guitar
 
  Tuck Andress's description of the varieties of wrist movement
 
  Training for string skipping
 
  Should elbow be used all the time when picking?
 
  Rusty Cooley's and Paul Gilbert's picking technique
 
  Pushing through string and stopping halfway before reaching the next string
 
  Using thumb in picking
 
  Ivor Mairants "Perfect pick technique" and Jimmy Bruno's "The Art of Picking" books
 
  How much of an arm weight should one use in a pick stroke?
 
  Circling the pick back where it started after playing a note.
 
  Wrist vs. elbow in picking and turning the doorknob motion clarification
 
  Picking when palm muting
 
  Stylus Pick
 
  Muscle Tension and Pickstyle
 
  Resolution to practice picking.
 
  Sweep picking
 
  Is it correct to lightly rest the wrist on the bridge at all times when playing electric?
 
  How to increase the volume when playing
 
  Expression and how it can be achieved with picking
 
  Drew's lesson log - April 9 2003
 
  In a pick stroke, which move is more dominant: the flat up/down move, or turning a round doorknob move?
 
  Walking excercises with sweep picking
 
  Yngwie's picking grip
 
  Keeping the wrist aligned with the forearm
 
  Practicing picking in various "contexts"
 
  A few fundamental electric guitar questions
 
  Hitting strings very hard during No Tempo Practice.
 
  Playing while muting strings
 
  Tension in bicep while picking, and moving forearm from string to string.
 
  Pick Style: Swinging Width of Strings
 
  Pushing through the String
 
  Picking problems
 
  Right and left hand coordination
 
  Use of elbow when picking on one string