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Picking hand fundamentals 1: Picking hand technique

Picking hand fundamentals 1: Picking hand technique

From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords

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Picking hand fundamentals 1: Picking hand technique

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- Continuing our discussion about picking arm technique, we're gonna now move to one of the most essential parts of the picking arm, obviously, the pick grip and how the pick actually engages with the string. So far we've covered allowing the elbow to move and allowing the elbow to hinge and not hugging the guitar and creating a sense that the whole arm is contacted to the guitar. If we strum, make the strum motion. We see that break in the wrist. Now as we think about where the hand is in relationship to all that. Again, we talked about the wrist is where a lot of the arm energy is made manifest, but it also tells the rest of the hand what to do. We're allowing for this rotation and allowing for the hinge. One of the key things about the wrist as we travel and think about the hand more is we think about the balance of rotation and balance of hinge. The wrist is where you see most of that hinge and see how it makes the hand move, as well. If I hinge at the wrist, how it makes the hand…

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