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Mike here from KillerGuitarTips.com

For all beginners learning to play the electric guitar, here’s a great tip for you. Most guitar players use a pick or plectrum to strum the strings and if you don’t hold the pick or plectrum correctly you will find it more difficult. Here’s how you do it.

A very effective way to hold the pick is to hold it between your thumb and index finger and to hold it with only a very small amount of the pick protruding. When you strum the strings you will need to angle the pick allowing ir to glide across the strings rather than dig in. Try to use your wrist rather than you elbow to strum as you’ll find it much easier and have more control.

You need to practice this strumming technique by strumming one chord that you know well at a time. Practice until each string in the chord rings out evenly.

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I always try to give more than one great tip in each article and this is no exception. So here goes…

This next tip is a great alternative to strumming your guitar and will make you sound really cool.

So, as an alternative to strumming we will now try to pick out each note of the chord in a regular order.

First we need a chord progression to work with. So for this exercise let’s use G, D, C, D.

Hold down a G major (G) chord and follow this picking order: First play the bass note of the chord (which will be on the 6th string) then pick the 3rd string followed by the 2nd string, next pick the 3rd again.

Now play the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 2nd strings covering one bar. Continue by following the chord sequence for one bar of each chord remembering that the bass note for the D chord is the 4th string and for the C is on the 5th string.

Play this chord progression with this picking style over and over againfor a really cool sounding guitar piece. Tip: Check out “Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton (especially the verses!).

This may sound a little confusing for you guys who are relative beginners but do not worry as the full home study course will cover everything you need to know in a chronological order bringing your playing on as fast as possible. So that’s it for now, take care

Until next week. Mike

About The Author: Mike Jones is a Pro Guitar Tutor. Offering Guitar Lessons created to bring the beginner through to an accomplished player in the shortest possible time, using amazing speed learning techniques developed over two decades of teaching and playing guitar as a Pro. To find out more about Mike’s teaching methods and receive FREE tips and tricks each week visit his website at: Learn Guitar Fast