Guitar 101: How to Hold a Pick and Strumming for Beginners

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A lesson on how to hold a guitar pick. I've spent a fair amount of time experimenting with the best way to hold a flatpick to create the best wrist angle, allowing me to pick lighter and faster. In this post, I share my thoughts on what I think is the best approach to pick technique for bluegrass style guitar.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:35 How to hold a pick
05:16 Strumming
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[@chrisanderson1515]

Great teacher and player. Thank you from an otherwise fairly experienced guitar player who has mostly used instruments as a songwriting vehicle. It’s time to expand my playing and writing.. figuring out these bluegrass guitar basics have not been exactly straightforward.

[@erebus79]

Thanks

[@nathanray202]

Great lesson thank you. Question - do you ever feel the right thumb hit the strings? Also - always w the point of the pick and not the shoulder?

[@TheRoadrunner1982]

Well, never too late to learn