Bluegrass Guitar Lesson: Right Hand Practice Exercises

Bluegrass Guitar Lesson Series: Here are a few exercises to help you develop your picking technique. They go along with the video titles Right Hand Tech. There are a lot of cross pick patterns out there, these are just a few to get you thinking.

These video's are samples of the kinds of things that will soon be offered from "THE 5Th Fret" a company that is dedicated to the development of acoustic music.

Category:

Music

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• bluegrass
• guitar
• lesson
• cross
• picking
• pick
• technique

[pdurban3]

Thanks for this excellent series Adam. You present some complicated concepts in such a way that a rank beginner, like myself, can make some sense of it. I've been agonising about the proper way to hold the pick, so that alone is gold, to me. I've decided to take up the guitar to help rehabilitate my left hand after some surgery. I've long been a fan of Doc Watson, so here I am. Peace Man. ;))

[adamschlenker]

@pdurban3 Thanks you. I can't think of a more fun way to rehab your hand than playing some tunes! I'm glad to hear that my approach works for you. Feel free to ask the questions that come up, I'm happy to help however I can. Also, keep an eye on the web site, there are new lessons there now and more coming soon. I'm working on another right hand series at the moment (picking techniques: alternate, cross pick, rest stroke, reverse...)

[danlashbrookgtrsetup]

Adam, I have to agree with you 300 percent on the pick grip,,,,99 percent of the people I see are playing off the point of the index finger which is wrong with no tone or volume . Until you hold the pick correctly you don't even know what the gtr sounds like.Great vid & good advice.Playing in a group you'd like to be heard.

[adamschlenker]

@danlashbrookgtrsetup Good to hear from you Dan. The right hand is SO important and is to often overlooked/under developed. Picking technique is the make or break, after all it is called Flat Picking ;>)

Adam

[adamschlenker]

@bravefriend710 Thanks for the kind words & sticking up for me ;>)

[bravefriend710]

@confusedaboutthedefinitionofb­luegrassbychris,

Adam is an excellent flatpicker and has an awesome command of the fretboard. If only you had the same proficiency with your manners and approach to critical thinking.

[johnrobel]

@bluegrassbychris THERE IS AN OLD SAYING USED BY POLITE SOCIETY " It is better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than to speak and remove all doubt". You leave no doubt, and offer nothing! You can finger chords any goddamn way you want, fingerings have no designated "style".

[cbwilson87]

Awesome stuff, but WAY too fast! I had to pause and go at my own pace after I watched you do the exercises first.

[JumpIrina]

Really cool! I'll try to practice that from now on, thanks a lot!! I think it will help! :)

[PyscoPathicPanda]

So hard T0T

[adamschlenker]

@headstock48 Your right that there are a lot of tunes a person can learn but there is NO reason to not learn a few scales. They don't take long to learn when you look at one pattern at a time. You'll be glad you did & you'll have a clearer vision of the tunes your trying to learn.