Guitar lesson Picking Basics

[fourswords]

great vid! and nice t-shirt!

[TheLadyStranger77]

I really appreciate your Twitter request. Thank you so much for posting your tips on Guitar here. Looks like you have mine, lol. It's been a while since I played, so what you have here will help me. Take care, Nancy

[oaklandfla2]

Definitely worthwhile.  I learned something. Thanks,

Oak

[sivery70914]

Hello Cary, this is Joe from the airplane. you look good on the video,

[yanxu20091]

Good stuff

[GerryD007]

Helpful, thanks.

[dudrhkd7]

thank you very much i like your vidoes

[BeatBay]

great vid thank you very much!

[puya1211]

heh symphony of destruction :P nice

[elcucca]

thanks, great video!

greetins from argentina!

you made my day :D

[carychilton]

yw -keep young, stay strong!

[futurfry]

@carychilton you know its MUCH harder to convert how you hold a pick than it looks.

[whiteexpress94]

I like this guitar. What's the name? Be specific please? Oh and great teaching too!!

[carychilton]

Nothing special, just a cheap Yahama cutaway. Glad you like the lessons ;)

[whiteexpress94]

I just want to know the name. I've been wanting to get this type of guitar, it's black and it's perfect. It really catches my eyes and is something different.

[vainast]

why when im using a pick., the sound is different??

[carychilton]

Great question, in fact I MADE a youtube vid using a 1200 USD ribbon microphone to help illustrate the differences in the sound of different picks with very similar performance : solo vs strumming. However, hardly anyone viewed it and nobody rated it, so I deleted it. :( Holding the pick at differents angles and different postions in the picking area will also give a different attack and tonality.

[carychilton]

different than what? lol

[Bodomius]

Ok cool.

Thanks alot mate :)

[Bodomius]

I have a question, People tell me it's wrong to rest your hand on the scratchplate. So do i keep my picking hand afloat? Do I rest my hand on a different part of the guitar? Please help.

[carychilton]

scratch plate? pickguard? resting your palm is OK, just don't do it 80-100% of the time. If you are, it might be indicative that your aren't relaxed. IF you are a very casual player don't worry about anything. If you aspire to a profession lead or rhy guitarist, definitely monitor yourself constantly changing things up as not to overuse any position.

[alithegreatest34]

yea i'm also like that in which i can only hold the pick with the middle finger and thumb. every time i try the index finger, it always feels unnatural and the pick slips everytime. i'm trying to learn alternate picking but just can't get it. i gotta get out of my downstroke habit

[Latraex]

nice chair skills.. Awesome!!

[cfloydrun]

Just so you know, Eddie didn't play the acoustic guitar on this song, it was actually David Lee Roth. (No stupid comments to me, because it is the truth}.

[carychilton]

Sorry, cfloydrun, you are wrong. This is right from Guitar Player Magazine: "

Once again, Eddie proved that his playing is not limited to rock styles. On "Could This Be Magic" he performed an impromptu Hawaiian-sounding acoustic slide part, and also played the steel-string on "Take Your Whiskey Home."

Besides, can't you HEAR Ed's feel in TYWH's acoustic intro? It is very easy to tell..... meh....

[kamikazi445]

the pull up thing really worked. helped me out alot maybe now i can do faster songs

[RagnhildOlstad]

T H A N K S

[sgrouge]

Thanks man

[clanvvars]

do one for bass picks please

[ianhead]

that makes me feel tons better. i've been playing for some time now, but thought hmmm.. what can i do to improve my playing ability, so i looked up videos on picking and most were saying to hold the pick one way and that all other ways are wrong which discouraged me because i use different ways of holding the pick because i dicovered i get different tones also, so thanks for this. cheers.

[guitarbreak]

good lesson!

[DavePerry2012]

Hey, thanks. I'd have to get the guitar out of the case to even remember how I hold the pick. I've almost exclusive played keys for the past five years. Still, though, I plan to get back to the guitar at some point.

I think I play more like Al DiMeola (I pick every note), if I was seeing his technique correctly in a couple vids I watched.

[DavePerry2012]

I think John McLaughlin also said he hovered his picking hand over the strings, without touching. I've never been able to play like that.

[vikingobche]

Hey, thank you very very much.. this is actually the first video I found where someone really explains how to hold a pick... I'll keep practicing.

Thanks again..

[TonyAab]

nice. Looking at different picking techniques as well as being able to evaluate your own and learn new ones are ideas that im learning alot from at the moment; Its good information for us guitarists.

Thanks for the video.

[sa7sul]

For control, loose-whrist and a thick tone especially on acoustic guitar look for rest-stroke picking technique. (used by e.g. Django Rheinardt)

[soccerkarer]

you sort of look like van halen...

[Intelli32]

Thank you for this