Hybrid Picking - Solo Study

Hey everyone and welcome to this new tutorial on Hybrid Picking! For the uninitiated, Hybrid Picking is a technique which requires the use of pick and right hand fingers. It's a technique which is used by all manner of guitarists such is the effectiveness of the technique. There are many benefits to using this technique. For me the main advantage is tone. ...

OK, check out the video of our Hybrid Picking Solo Study and make any notes that you think will be relevant before we head on over to the breakdown videos.

Throughout this study we have a recurring right hand pattern which repeats throughout the majority of the piece. Once we have this pattern under our fingers we can concentrate on negotiating the chord changes as smoothly as we possibly can. I like to think of the right hand pattern in two ways: Ascending we have four groups of two notes each which is separa...

We continue the piece with more of the same, this time with a series of descending diminished 7th chords. The fingering stays the same  with the exception of the final diminished 7th chord. These chords are followed by a quite tricky passage which will require extra attention particularly with the right hand fingering. Up till now we have been using th...

After the descending slurred passage we find ourselves back on familiar ground with the right hand pattern that by now you should be comfortable with. This continues until the final Em chord which is a repeat of the pattern we came across back in part 2. Experiment with your right hand fingering choice during the harmonics section. The important thing here...