Is there an exercise to train my right hand/fingers to move the correct distance to each string when I'm using a pick?
Thanks,
Tom Shcwarz
picking
Tom- there are no picking exercises like the one you describe, based on distance but there are many good exercises for just general picking.
One good way to practice picking is to find a good finger picking song and play it with a pick instead of your fingers. This will require rapidly picking different strings and really help your accuracy.
Bottom line, there is no substitute for just playing and practicing!
Good luck, it's worth it!
Cheers! :cheer:
One good way to practice picking is to find a good finger picking song and play it with a pick instead of your fingers. This will require rapidly picking different strings and really help your accuracy.
Bottom line, there is no substitute for just playing and practicing!
Good luck, it's worth it!
Cheers! :cheer:
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BigBear wrote:
You are both so right. Practice makes perfect. I brought this topic up with my instructor and he told me the same thing. Great idea about picking out at fingerpicking song with a pick instead of your fingers. Hard to do smoothly, but you get faster and faster all the time. I have a little exercise tabbed out that I use for practice. Use it as a warm up each night. I still miss strings all the time, but is is getting better. Just stick with it and it will get there.
MJ
Bear and Andy:Tom- there are no picking exercises like the one you describe, based on distance but there are many good exercises for just general picking.
One good way to practice picking is to find a good finger picking song and play it with a pick instead of your fingers. This will require rapidly picking different strings and really help your accuracy.
Bottom line, there is no substitute for just playing and practicing!
Good luck, it's worth it!
Cheers! :cheer:
You are both so right. Practice makes perfect. I brought this topic up with my instructor and he told me the same thing. Great idea about picking out at fingerpicking song with a pick instead of your fingers. Hard to do smoothly, but you get faster and faster all the time. I have a little exercise tabbed out that I use for practice. Use it as a warm up each night. I still miss strings all the time, but is is getting better. Just stick with it and it will get there.
MJ
Music Junkie wrote:
MJ- another really good exercise is to play scales (or patterns) up and down but make sure each note of the scale gets played with an alternating up and down picking motion. One of the barriers to speed is the change of direction of the pick so learning to alternate really makes you go faster ie. two down strokes are much slower than an alternating up and down because there only one chang eof motion.
After you play it with the first note down, try to play the first note up and reverse everything. These little mind games help to contribute to my neurosis! lol! :silly:
Alternating picking is a really good discipline to develop. After you get good with alternating picking, then you can work on cross picking which opens up another world of fun!
Cheers! :cheer:
BigBear wrote:Bear and Andy:Tom- there are no picking exercises like the one you describe, based on distance but there are many good exercises for just general picking.
One good way to practice picking is to find a good finger picking song and play it with a pick instead of your fingers. This will require rapidly picking different strings and really help your accuracy.
Bottom line, there is no substitute for just playing and practicing!
Good luck, it's worth it!
Cheers! :cheer:
You are both so right. Practice makes perfect. I brought this topic up with my instructor and he told me the same thing. Great idea about picking out at fingerpicking song with a pick instead of your fingers. Hard to do smoothly, but you get faster and faster all the time. I have a little exercise tabbed out that I use for practice. Use it as a warm up each night. I still miss strings all the time, but is is getting better. Just stick with it and it will get there.
MJ
MJ- another really good exercise is to play scales (or patterns) up and down but make sure each note of the scale gets played with an alternating up and down picking motion. One of the barriers to speed is the change of direction of the pick so learning to alternate really makes you go faster ie. two down strokes are much slower than an alternating up and down because there only one chang eof motion.
After you play it with the first note down, try to play the first note up and reverse everything. These little mind games help to contribute to my neurosis! lol! :silly:
Alternating picking is a really good discipline to develop. After you get good with alternating picking, then you can work on cross picking which opens up another world of fun!
Cheers! :cheer:
I agree with the above. I would like to add that I was told recently that emphasis should be on mastering down stroke. This is where the speed challenge is since you have to reach the string by downstroke first (most of the time) and the up stroke looks faster but you are already in position. The closer to the string the better, since you will reach the string faster. A good song for this is Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)in the program. This is one of my greatest challenge as well.
Marc
Marc