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What's up, everybody?
Shannon Lauren Callihan back again
with another Fender technique of the week.
And today I'm talking about my favorite technique,
hybrid picking.
When I started playing guitar
I could not use a pick for the life of me.
I don't know what it was
but I just could not grasp the concept of using a pick.
And with that, I somehow managed to come up
with a technique all on my own.
I don't even know what I was doing,
but I would mimic like I was holding a pick
with my fingers.
If I ever had to play anything super fast,
and then I would use all of my,
essentially my whole hand to play guitar.
Kind of strange.
And then I discovered hybrid picking.
So I still had to get used to using a pick
but it made things easier for me
because I was still using all of my fingers.
And I think what I love the most
about hybrid picking is I'm in control of what I'm playing.
I liked being able to, you know,
know what string I'm going to hit.
And for me personally, with a pick,
it, you just never know.
So that's one of the reasons why I love hybrid picking
but there's many things that I love about it.
I think that from a tonality standpoint
you can get different tones based on how you play guitar.
You know, if I, for instance,
if I'm going to play this
That sounds one way with the pick.
Hybrid picking.
You can kind of pick out what notes you want to play,
really want to bring out, which is nice.
I love that about hybrid picking.
So for starters,
if you're new to hybrid picking,
the key is to start slow.
And I think starting slow means by simple patterns.
So if you're used to just using,
if you're used to just using a pick,
then you know, it's going to take a minute
to get used to using your fingers with a pick.
So I'm playing with my, with the pick
and then with my middle finger.
Do you wanna, you know, throw in another finger?
I think it's just, it's a matter of getting used
to how that feels
and you know, like anything,
it, it takes some time to get used to
but I think you'll find that it makes playing easier.
That's how I personally feel.
You might feel differently. That's fine.
But speaking from my personal experience, I think
that it makes learning licks and riffs a lot easier.
So I'm going to play a little riff
that I play literally all the time.
If I go to pick up a guitar
it's honestly the first thing that I play,
which is annoying, but I can't help it, I love it.
And once you, you know, start to play it
and get it under your fingers
and you gradually start to play it faster
it's so much fun to just rip on.
So I'll play that for you.
I'll break it down and play it slower after
and then we can kind of talk about it.
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Fun, right?
So I'm going to play it a little bit slow.
I'll play it a lot slower
so you can see what I'm doing.
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That last lick.
It's a fun riff and it covers a lot
of what I was talking about.
I'm using my fingers.
It's, you're almost grabbing the note, which is weird.
But it's a great warm-up to really help get all
of your fingers into the mix.
Like I said, start slow with it.
Once you get it under your fingers
and you can play it faster,
it's a great little showy riff.
Thank you guys for tuning in
to my Fender technique of the week.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope you found something useful from it.
Debatable.
If you feel so inclined to learn the riff
that I've demonstrated, have at it.
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you definitely need to do so.
I highly recommend this guitar. It's awesome.
Thanks again.
Happy practicing.