Tag: picking

I've never established a formal warmup routine. Typically, I start improvising on the guitar without a structured approach, warming up the fingers with both solo lines and chords, and preparing the mind. Open String Upstrokes Fretting hand not needed for this exercise. Just open strings. Hammer On / Pull Offs …

On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking. Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …