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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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 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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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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