"tremolo picking" or "double picking". Alternate picking involves a continuous down-up or up-down motion of the picking hand, even when not picking a note...
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Economy picking is a guitar picking technique designed to maximize picking efficiency by combining alternate picking and sweep picking; it may also incorporate...
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Sweep picking is a guitar-playing technique. When sweep picking, the guitarist plays single notes on consecutive strings with a 'sweeping' motion of the...
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Downpicking (redirect from Downstrokes picking)
down-strokes are played without the addition of upstrokes (as in alternate picking), the tip of the pick never comes in contact with the strings as the hand moves...
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the use of one or more picking hand fingers, and/or can reduce dexterity in the picking hand. The pros of each guitar picking style are indirectly correlated...
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Crosspicking (redirect from Cross picking)
[patterns are] forward and reverse "roll[s]"...played in the standard alternating picking pattern (dudududu) or in specialized patterns (dduddudd) or (uuduuduu)...
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Hybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick (plectrum) and one or more fingers alternately or simultaneously. Hybrid...
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shredding is a complex art form. Shred guitar includes fast alternate picking, sweep-picking, diminished and harmonic minor scales, tapping, and whammy...
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Order processing (redirect from Order picking)
wave picking can be used to batch picks, which are then handled via zone or piece picking. A warehouse may also need to support alternate picking strategies...
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approaches to fast picking are alternate picking and economy picking. Alternate picking is when the player strictly alternates each stroke between downstrokes...
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warm-up exercises, exercises to avoid injury while playing, alternate picking, sweep picking, chords and other techniques for developing one's guitar playing...
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Chuck Wayne (section Consecutive-alternate picking)
Wayne style pick-guard" or more accurately as a "finger rest." Some guitarists have referred to consecutive/alternative picking as "spray picking", although...
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Guitar Craft (section Alternate and cross picking)
second primary exercise for the right hand, which teaches alternate picking. The guitar pick (plectrum) is held between the thumb and the index finger...
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Middle Eastern and Mexican influences, a spring reverb, and rapid alternate picking characteristics. His regional hit "Let's Go Trippin'", in 1961, launched...
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as well as others, lead guitar lines often employ alternate picking, sweep picking, economy picking and legato (e.g., hammer ons, pull offs), which are...
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performed by placing the side of the picking hand across the guitar's strings, close to the bridge, while picking. The name is a misnomer as the muting...
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guitar techniques (such as two-handed tapping, alternate picking, legato, hybrid picking, sweep picking, whammy bar acrobatics, and circular vibrato) in...
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techniques usually include alternate picking, tapping, sliding, legato, and minor to extreme whammy bar use; he also employs sweep picking, although very rarely...
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his whammy bar, quick full ascending and descending sweep picking arpeggios, alternate picking and two-handed tapping on the higher frets as well as incorporating...
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Al Di Meola (section Speed picking & Palm muting)
Meola advocates for the importance of picking all notes as much as possible. He steers clear from sweep picking and hammer-ons, which he deems as "shortcuts"...
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have to do all the picking and singing." Instead, the Carters, Maybelle especially, attentively watched and listened to Riddle picking the blues for hours...
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Guitar picking Alternate picking Sweep picking Economy picking Gypsy picking Hybrid picking Crosspicking Downpicking Flatpicking Pick slide Pick tapping...
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also adept at other speed-related techniques such as rapid alternate picking and sweep picking. Satriani was influenced by Jimi Hendrix and by English rock...
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for his use of double handed tapping, extensive whammy bar usage, alternate picking, rapid staccato and legato scale runs, sweeping, and many other shred-guitar...
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whereas Collen, like Willis, was self-taught and developed his fast, alternate-picking technique from studying Al Di Meola and listening to jazz players...
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such techniques as two handed tapping, sweep picking (full swept arpeggios), alternate picking, hybrid picking, artificial and natural harmonics and combining...
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avant-garde jazz and European classical music. He combines rapid alternate picking and crosspicking with motifs employing whole-tone or diminished pitch...
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Fingerstyle guitar (redirect from Finger picking)
tamborim, and applied it to the picking hand. Fingerpicking (also called thumb picking, alternating bass, or pattern picking) is both a playing style and...
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whole basslines. Mendel is known to use a pick almost exclusively. His preferred style was alternate picking, but on the fifth Foo Fighters album, In Your...
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The musical style of his playing and songwriting including fast alternate picking was also largely influenced by the German metal band Accept. Ian states...
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