alternate picking

i need some help here with alternate picking. only been playing for 1 month lol, and every1 is like "it will come..." is there any special technique or somthin how i could pick easier and faster or will it come with practice?

Like everyone says on this site about a question similar to this:

Start off slow and easy. Don't try to get into picking sweeps or any of that. Just practice slower on one string going up and down on the frets.
Go here:

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/lesson.php?id=21

They are finger workouts and they will help your fingers too, try alternate picking on them too. I'd advise you to just try the first one for a while though until you are comfortable.

Good luck.

ye lol ive been doing those a lot lately nd theyve helped...a bit lol. i guess i just expect everything 2 come the second i pick the guitar up....

it is very important to learn do do this when your beginning. It is easer to learn to do it right when your leaning that to try and reteach yourself after you learned to play. I had to do this i was always a down stroke guy. it took me about a year to reprogram my brain and hands to do the alt pick.

my pick kinda gets stuck in the string when i go faster..any way 2 make it more pure, like a pick position maybe?

You may need to tilt your plectrum as you hit the string slightly so it slides over and is more fluent.

Yeah me too, I still have kind of a problem with too much down-stroking and I hate it.


Also, harder picks can give you a whole different feel for the guitar. And a sound too. I use .73 - .88 mm usually. And I use Dunlop Jazz III picks especially for speed picking.

what are a few bad habits yall picked up that you wish you would not have so maybe the new beginners can avoid them. i have a prob with how i hold my left hand. mostly where i put my thumb. if i try to be like the picture in the book it is pretty uncomfortable.

o.. i was using a medium pick ill go out nd buy a harder 1, and of yes..practice...

well again when you but your thumb on the back of the neck it forces your hand up over the fret board and gives you leverage. but yeah that is another bad habit of mine. when you play standing up, your guitar has to be strapped up higher not like the "cool guys" play them. lol

this is the technique i prefer.

whoops hes suppose to move a little. aw well

I love that technique it rocks !! lol

Um bad habits, okay lets see.

Instead of holding the pick with the "ball" of my thumb, I hold it with the tips of both fingers.

When speed picking I use three fingers on the pick, I find it comfortable and I have more control though.

I use too many downstrokes, I am improving on that though, as I said to Telecrater before.

That's all I can think of right now. Try to avoid them.

like ur icon goodtunes lol...the pick placement is what did it. i went from not doing alternate picking to kinda doing it..and im using my sisters shell from her shell collection, its flat and it works, thnks 4 ur help guys

Lmfao stop going through your sister's stuff !
PERVE !!
lmfao

lol shes 9...or 10 i forget

Even worse...!

Aww yuck !
Lmfao
Pedophile XD

lol im not a perve!!! just som 1 who goes through undies n stuff.. lol jk man..

eww, this is getting bad

to get back to the question about bod habbits.

when i started playing these are the bad habits i developed.

1. I strummed chords with up and down strokes but when i picked notes they were always down strokes.

2. I played with my thumb on my fretting hand near the e string

3. I played sloppy, and still do. this is bad when you need to be more precise on what your playing. but usualy i am able to pull it off because it sorta comes across as being more "emotional" but in reality it has become part of my style. just another sloppy guitar player.

because of this I'll never be able to play like snatch or vai or any of those real technical guys.

lol ty 4 gettn this back to the topic, tnx 4 the suggestions and i do kinda play with my fingers more often which prob made me bad at speed picking

LMFAO !!! Weak !! haaha omg that made my day lol and my day was crappy for a bit, even thought we had no school.

Yeah anyways, telecrater can be a grunger then cause grungers play sorta sloppy. I do too kinda but I also know I will never be a Vai or Vaughan or Slash

im not trying 2 be a guitar god i jus wana be good enough 2 make my friends jelous jk i wana be able 2 play anything possible or almost anything and be able 2 play it ok..not perfect like vai or slash or hendrix

I just wanna be able to impress the chicks

Gee bad habits...holy shit I have so many...lOl.On the guitar...lol I guess not strickly and I mean strickly learning alternet picking first because i tend to hammer and pull off more than i want to!take the time no matter how long it takes you,get very good at it,and guitarboy dude I dont think any of us can help ya with that....LMAO,I'm jokin with ya ,you know that

who said my firends have 2 be guys?
also seems like i should learn alternate pick asap tnx

I do a lot of HO's and PO's too, that probably could count as a bad habit. I love doing pinch harmonics too but I tend to drop the pick a lot when i am playing. I am just like *strum strum strum *pick flies out of hand and hits me in the eye* Goddamn.* Lol

Aha nah I'm good, I do that anyways cause I sent some of my stuff and chicks were like woah. So yeah XD

lol this is completely off topic but when i was playn my sheity trombone in band on day in the middle of concert the baton flyes out of his hand and hits a flute player lol

the more i just practice the motion and simple notes on alternate picking the better it is. the way i hold it realy tends to alter how i play. i have a band habit of letting too much of the pick show so it gets caught a lot

Lmfao that would be cool
If you use a regular size Dunlop pick, when you strum it's good to have more out because your finger won't be scraped off the strings. When you aren't strumming, keep as little of the pick showing as possible.

ahh i belive i was doing the opposite...still need 2 get tht pick. wut kind should would best suit me? i got a medium nd it bends 2 much, would i get hard or xtra hard?

If you really don't like it bending (I enjoy a little bend once in a while), go for 80+mm
I used something in the 70s for a while, but moved up to 80's and I am currently using Jazz II picks (1.something mm) very small, but I wouldn't advise buying those for starting out with alternate picking.
I love Dunlop's picks, and for a few years, have been playing with nothing but.

As far as alternate picking goes, play it clean, play it fast, don't play like a jackass.
Sorry I can't help, ever since I can remember I played with alternate picking, so it's quite natural.

Yes, KicknGuitar is right. Use 80mm+ picks. They don't bend as much. Try 1mm too. Um, he is also right when he says do not try Jazz picks just starting out. Wait til you have experience. They are nice picks though and are great for Alternate picking... But not right now

i h8 wen the pick bend s so ill try tht tnx