Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of picking hand on a Stratocaster-style electric guitar. Guitarists are always searching for new ways to express their ...

For countless guitarists, hybrid picking (using pick and fingers) is the ultimate approach to playing the guitar. The pick is great for strumming and burning lead lines while fingers and pick can ...

Guitar skills: Sweep picking is a technique best suited to arpeggios played one note per string. The picking technique itself is much the same as strumming a chord in slow motion. Try holding a barre ...

As part of Radio 2's Guitar Season, we're proud to bring you the Guitar Pick Up - A series of online guitar lessons that aims to inspire beginners to pick up the instrument as well as those who ...

Allen Van Wert is a guitar teacher, fingerpicking metal virtuoso, and now an A.I. developer who is promising his new program, The Ultimate Picking Program, can identify weaknesses in performance and ...

Metal-guitar shredder Joe Stump, guitarist for Reign of Terror and instructor at Berklee College of Music, explains how to add double-picking to your guitar-playing ...

In this lesson, we’ll be looking at an unaccompanied acoustic piece. The tempo marked is approximate as this was played ‘freehand’ without a metronome. Flatpicking is a bit of a catch-all term since ...

If you're just starting out on guitar, or perhaps you've just taken your very first guitar out of its box and you're raring to get playing, this is the place to start. Here in the first of a series of ...

As part of Radio 2's Guitar Season, we're proud to bring you the Guitar Pick Up - A series of online guitar lessons that aims to inspire beginners to pick up the instrument as well as those who ...