Picking the best plectrums, using them right – and having fun playing guitar.

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Plectrum Guitar – what is that?

Plectrum Guitar – what is that?

What is a Plectrum Guitar? Well, mostly, when people are talking about a plectrum guitar, they are referring to a certain way of playing a certain kind of guitar: steel string guitar played with a guitar plectrum mostly in a jazz context Some people put the emphasis

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Pick Slide – the sound of ROCK and how to get it

Pick Slide – the sound of ROCK and how to get it

Scraping and sliding your plectrum over the she strings … I remember how I was desperately trying to figure our as a teenager how to get this great rock guitar effect out of my guitar. I saw at MTV the movements that those guys did when creating

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How thick should a guitar plectrum be? What gauge is the right one?

How thick should a guitar plectrum be? What gauge is the right one?

How thick should a guitar plectrum be? What is the perfect gauge? Do different music styles require a different thickness of the guitar pick? And does a thicker guitar plectrum sound fatter? Those are questions that many of my students ask me. And although it’s always a

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How to hold a guitar pick correctly

How to hold a guitar pick correctly

In this post I will show you how to hold a pick.   It is very important to get used to the correct position of the guitar plectrum from the beginning on, because once used to a certain position of the pick, it would be very hard for

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