These courses cover basic picking hand techniques such as fingerstyle and plectrum playing. We’ll also cover effective fretting hand technique here.
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This course covers the fundamentals of the fingerstyle technique. We’ll be learning how to play the strings here of course, but also how to mute the other strings – this is an important part of playing cleanly.
In this video we’ll be looking at the basics of the plectrum technique. I’ll be showing you how to hold the pick, and how to use it to play the strings.
Effective fretting hand technique is essential. With that in mind, in this course we’ll be looking at the basics of fretting a note, and two fretting systems: finger-per-fret and condensed fingering.