• "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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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