Dude your guitar has no sound hole . Where does the sound come out ??

Is that a wegen? I love those. I use the twins 2.5

I gotta tell ya, I've learned so much from this. Just in a few hours, I'm already the best player I've ever been in decades of wasting time. I can't believe it, how much time I've wasted forcing my way through crap just to find out my bad pick holding was "holding" me back so much. Hard to believe.....thank you! Oh, and it feels great too ;)

There's only one pick

Newbie using a pick. Watched a lot of videos on this and your video makes the most sense and especially your last tip.

will this help me pick faster?

Thank you! Been looking for a good tutorial for this!

What might be the issue if i hear EAD strings squeak when playing fast? I basically hear pick scratching the strings (EAD) and cannot really or have no idea how to solve this. What might be wrong? Angle? Attack? Pick itself?

Thank you for your tips 😄! I can’t even get that from the guitar instructor I have.

Fantastic tutorial. And this is the free stuff? Wow.

Thank you! I followed the tips in this video and noticed immediate improvements in my picking.

Thanks. You are awesome. I just want my middle finger to "ple-ase leave my ring finger alone!", so i can get better at Guitar. Many thanks. A subscriber.

Brilliant video went into it very deep and explained what people needed to know

As a beginner I’m having trouble using my fingers independently. I’ll try your exercising advise and let you know how it’s going. 😊

Thanks Max very informative. 👍👍💯🇺🇸

Nice technique, thanks Max. Cheers! 💚✌ I never liked those kinda mastrubations around pentatonics, this is more organic for me and for my construction on improv.

Jazz III maxgrip (the red one) is the perfect pick for me. Just a hair of give so that it doesn't feel rigid while still being thick enough for complete accuracy. Thanks for the video!

Wow, this is the best video explaining hammer on and pull offs, this deserves millions of views and likes

I'm just tired of all the self proclaimed teachers on KZbin coming out with insulting video titles saying you the viewer have always done this or that wrong. You can't even title a video correctly that doesn't insult the viewer. Every person that teaches themselves to play, is a teacher. So it's fair to say that any moron could be a teacher. I've been playing guitar for 50 years. Banjo, violin, and 16 other instruments for the same amount of time. What if people like me, whose only interest in life is music, started critiquing all you teachers videos? Like this stupid video trying to explain the correct way to hold a pick incorrectly. I bet he charges by the hour. Took 12 minutes to explain the 2 minute job of holding a pick. Learn to play guitar in 60 years because you paid your teacher by the hour and it took 3 days to learn to hold the guitar. 15 minutes to hold a oic.

Merci j'ai pris l'habitude de plier le.ppuce pour avoir mon angle..45.mais.ca.me.faisait.mal donc il faut.que je me reconditionne à changer l'angle du poignet et ce que j'avais penser et t'u as confirmer par t'as video merci

Two words; Marty Friedman.

I play mostly rhythm so I use lighter picks than You. My recommendation for the job is something between 0.50mm to 0.80mm. What is difference in sound in general is the material of the pick. I use mainly vinil ones. Pearl vinil for rich rhythm, normal vinil for everyday training and solos and finally baked vinil with whole band to have more punch. Dunlop makes my favorite pick 0.58mm. Plastic doesn't make it for me neither for feel or sound, its too flexible. Vinil on the other hand is stiffer/harder, only downside is it can brake, specially pearl one. Nice tips, like your explanation about relaxed hand and fingers and angle of the pick. 💚✌

Great teaching video. Was wondering about the position of the forearm and the elbow as you go up and down the neck. What do you feel about the elbow position and maintaining hand and wrist position especially when playing scale and knuckle bending as your fingerings extend to the lower E string.

Great lesson

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Dunlop Flow, 4.2

1st rule in guitar - there is no rules > you will find your favorite player doing the opposite of what he just said - just know its all good - no matter what you do - as long as you get the sound you are looking for (play with your nose - if it brings the sound you want)

Hi Max, thank you very much - this was really helpful.

Worked for me. Much thanks.

My go to pick has been the tiny Dunlop Jazz III for years now, in a couple different variations like profiled for extra grip and the John Petrucci signature pick. All are over 2.5mm thick and have a nice sharp point. Good stuff

yeah this is a fail still didn’t show how to generate wrist speed without moving forearm, adequately

Awesome! Thx a lot, bro!

Welp, I've been holding the damn thing wrong for 15+ years. Just found the source of my hand tension...

Thank you, very interesting video.

I had to watch a dozen videos of this type to find one in which it is explained why the thumb should be positioned this way. The other videos only said that this is right and that is wrong, making them unconvincing for me to make the change. Thanks!

Damn Bro your explanation was so clear! I thought I was finally getting the hang of it but my pull-offs and hammer ons just sounded so weak. I kind of figured that if I actually plucked the string with my finger when pulling off it sounded much cleaner and you just confirmed that 100%. I agree with you, I dont know why they call em pull-offs, it's more confusing then anything and does not describe the actual movement being performed. This is still not easy but so much easier than trying to get a strong sound by just simply taking your finger off the fret

Thank you for this lesson. I just started to learn how to play the guitar and I am struggling a bit with the pick. This will help me for sure!

awesome stuff here max, super super interesting

Flexible picks are great for beginners. Since they are probably flat picking anyway. But they should beslowly working toward thicker picks and better technique like attack angle. Easiest picks to use are ussually jazz picks. Theyre tapered on all sides so as forgiving as a little stiff pick can get... try a jp signature.

Hay I've always liked sharkfin picks and find it hard to play with other picks mostly even though I have many different types

This fixed my weak ringfinger for 30 years. You are the best, love your anatomical videos.

Best video I’ve seen for beginner hybrid

On the last exercise (the descending pentatonic run), for the 2 picking strokes, are you alternate picking? If so, is it a downstroke then upstroke type thing?

Not true : not all the great players use thick picks. Pat Matheny use the thinest pick ever. But I admit, he's an exception 😀 Great video.

You have the best tips from KZbin ever, so usefull. Thanks so much.

Excellent explanation, I subscribe to your channel. One question please, what thickness of pick do you recommend for rhythm guitar?

thank you for the lesson aragorn son of arathorn

As someone who has spent far too long looking at KZbin videos on this matter, when I'd rather have been learning songs, I believe this is the best and most in depth picking guide which has been missing and prevented me from understanding. I want to say after 15 years of playing, I've finally fixed this; however, no matter how much I cover the pick to prevent the 360 spin, I can't seem to get it. You are the first person I've seen address the 360 degree spin specifically though which is promising, and I will continue to watch. Thanks for this invaluable video, I hope it eventually clicks, but the spin seems to keep happening

Thanks for this! Ive been playing for 6 months and apparently advancing fairly quickly. I have been playing with .73m pics since they seemed to work best as a true beginner. Until now. I just assumed .73 was the right one for me not making the corrolation between progressing in my journey and modifying my tools. I knew when it was time to move from nylon strings to steel and upgrade to a Talyor, but didnt even think of something as fundamental as my pic. After watching this I grabbed a 1mm and wow...i can actually "feel" the difference. I'm learning "Give a little bit" by Supertramp and even just the intro strums are so much crisper with the 1m. I guess I have graduated to the thicker pics. Love it. Thanks for the tips.

I don’t use a pick. Not needed at all