Learn Guitar With KillerGuitarTips.com – How To Hold The Guitar Pick Or Plectrum

Mike here from KillerGuitarTips.com

Here’s a great tip for beginners learning to play the electric guitar. Most guitar playing is done using a pick or plectrum to strum the strings. If you don’t hold the pick or guitar plectrum correctly you will find it a lot harder to progress so here’s how you do it.

The best way to hold your pick is to hold it between your thumb and index finger and to have hold of most of it with only a small amount protruding. When you strum the guitar, angle the pick so it glides over the stings and use only the very tip of the pick. Avoid letting the pick go to deep into the strings and strum using your wrist rather than your elbow (you have more control in your wrist than your elbow).

You need to practice this strumming technique by strumming one chord that you know well at a time. Practice until each string in the chord rings out evenly.

As I always try to mention in many of these tips… A picture is worth a thousand words! In my brand new totally unique Audio/Video guitar tutoring program that uses amazing speed learning techniques that has taken me over two decades to perfect, you will be able to hear exactly what is being shown to you and you will be able to see it close up and play it back to yourself over and over again.

I always try to give more than one great tip in each article and this is no exception. So here goes…

This next tip is a great alternative to strumming your guitar and will make you sound really cool.

So using your pick (plectrum) we are now going to try to pick out each note of the chord in a regular order.

First we need a chord progression to work with. So for this exercise let’s use G, D, C, D.

Hold down a G major (G) chord and follow this picking order: First play the bass note of the chord (which will be on the 6th string) then pick the 3rd string followed by the 2nd string, next pick the 3rd again.

Now play the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 2nd strings covering one bar. Continue by following the chord sequence for one bar of each chord remembering that the bass note for the D chord is the 4th string and for the C is on the 5th string.

Play this chord progression with this picking style over and over againfor a really cool sounding guitar piece. Tip: Check out “Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton (especially the verses!).

I know quite a few people who will be reading this will be relative beginners and it may sound a little confusing. Don’t panic! My full home study DVD course will cover everything you need to know in a step by step chronological order bringing your guitar playing on as fast as possible. There you go for now, take care

Until next week. Mike

About The Author: Mike Jones is a Pro Guitar Teacher. Offering Guitar Lessons geared to bring the beginner through to an great player in the shortest possible time, using amazing speed learning techniques created over twenty years of teaching and playing guitar as a Pro. To find out more about Mike’s teaching methods and receive FREE tips and tricks each week visit his website at: Guitar Lessons

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