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Starting to Pick

Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk
Topic: Technique
Style: Any Style
Level: Beginner
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    Picking Styles Pavel Denisjuk
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    Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: When you start learning guitar, picking style is one of the most important things to think about, because it will always be with you. Once you learn it - you don't want to re-learn it! So it's best to try a couple of styles, see which one works best for you and master it! In the video you can see how basic 3 styles work, and the rest are just variations: S...

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    Picking Styles Tryout Pavel Denisjuk
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    Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: In order to learn big things we first have to cover small and simple stuff to make sure we learn it all right, so we don't have to relearn things later. Here is the exercise which will help you to try out the picking styles from the previous lesson. When we say "alternate picking" - it means we change the direction of the picking movement each pick - so it ...

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    Moving Between Strings - 2-strings Exercise 1 Pavel Denisjuk
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    Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: On to the next exercise! This one involves 2 strings and it is very similar to our previous lesson. Now we will again play alternate picking and we'll extend it to second string. Start slowly and make your way to the place where you change strings. In this example the first note of the next string is down stroke so you won't have any troubles playing it. M...

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    Moving Between Strings - 2-strings Exercise 2 Pavel Denisjuk
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    Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Moving between strings in Alternate Picking (further in text: AP) is a very important thing to practice. Most of the time we play 3 notes per string (3 nps) patterns and that is were changing strings becomes really important. In AP we always have to alternate between up-stokes and down-strokes so when we are going from one string to another we will have to ...

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    Moving Between Strings - 3-strings Exercise / A-Major Scale Pavel Denisjuk
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    Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: When I was starting to practice guitar and technique, this was actually the first exercise I ever played. I practiced it for hours and hours each day (couldn't do any better back than). Unfortunately, in order to learn difficult stuff, we all have to practice simple 1-octave scales and boring exercises first. This is a 1 octave A-Major scale and it is also ...

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