Right Hand Picking Guitar Exercises

Are you looking to improve your right hand guitar playing? This video guitar lesson is perfect for you. In this video guitar lesson, Dennis Hodges shows you the simple exercises that you can perform on your guitar to get your right hand to synchronise correctly with your fretting hand.

Check out the funky rhythm exercises, learn string skipping, guitar speed bursts and accent displacements on the guitar. Just make sure that you practice these right hand picking exercises with a metronome for better results!

When trying to build up technique and speed for your right hand, there are several things that could hinder your progress.

- Pay attention to your elbow. The elbow shouldn't be used when you are picking. The correct motion should come from your wrist.

- Try to relax in order to play faster. While this may seem to be a paradox, the truth is that when your fingers and wrist is tensed up, they are "locked" and will lose fluidity when trying to play fast. Also, when you tense up, your finger endurance will wear you down much faster.

- The manner in which you hold your guitar pick also plays an important role in right hand picking exercises. If you want to go fast, you need to be in control of your pick. In my experience, higher gauged and thicker picks are better for this aspect. Thicker picks don't flab around when you hit the strings and enable a better grip on them.

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