Guitar Lesson: Flatpicking Exercise

Heres an old flatpicking exercise that will improve your speed at the up and down strokes and your coordination going back and forth between dtrings

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• Guitar
• Lesson:
• Flatpicking
• exercise

[bucinaus]

Thank you for the practical lesson. This is what I precisely need practice in and your lesson gives me ideas.

[labeak]

You are welcome. It is a challenging exercise. When I work at it faithfully, I do notice some improvement.

[hounddig]

Do you recommend any pick thickness for flat picking?

[labeak]

Good question. I tend toward heavier picks. Its a subjective, personal thing, that is affected by your own strength, the thickness of your strings and even the scale length of your guitar. The guitar I'm using here has a short (24.9") scale - the same as a Martin 000-28 and I am using pretty light gauge strings, so they are rather loose - better for bending, but no so much bounce off the pick stroke and therefore a little slower to pick. I have kind of fallen in love recently with (cont'd)

[labeak]

"Golden Gate" picks, which a thick, rounded triangles that I understand were primarily designed for mandolin playing. They look like tortoise shell and provide me with some speed and power.

Labeak

[in2gadgets]

thanks! but why aren't you in concert pitch??? :-)

[pretourious]

Cool exercise! I'll definitely work on this one. Thanks!

[hounddig]

I like nylon picks for strumming(60mm) but their a bit flimsy for picking. Thanks for writing back.

[birddoggarton]

Keep working on it.

I will sure give it a try.

[alexmatchim]

i think its just a DX1?

althought im not sure.