How To Use A Pick And Fingers To Play Guitar [Hybrid Picking]

In this video, you learn how to hybrid pick on guitar.
Hybrid picking is when you use both the pick and your fingers to play rhythm and lead guitar parts on the instrument.
It brings many benefits to your guitar playing, including variation in tone and the ability to switch between flat-picking and fingerpicking styles easily and effortlessly bringing much more diversity to your playing
In this lesson, you learn some simple but very effective drills designed to get you acquainted with hybrid picking.
You also learn how to combine hybrid picking with rhythm guitar and discover the benefits of playing this way.
Finally, you will learn hybrid picking in the context of lead guitar playing. We will break down some common riffs that incorporate hybrid picking and how to incorporate these into your playing.
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Tablature for examples presented in this lesson can be found here: acousticguitarlessonsonline.net/hybrid-picking-guitar

[@tsiiphsycoii]

I do not have fingernails... quite hard to match the volume of the pick..

[@acousticguitarlessons]

If you don’t have fingernails, you will develop calluses on your finger tips that will produce a more pronounced tone. I prefer to grow my nails, but this is another way you could approach Fingerpicking :)

[@tsiiphsycoii]

@@acousticguitarlessons thanks for the response. I've not had an issue with volume using only fingers.

[@markbrown7103]

It doesn’t really matter you can hold a gu pic just like you can a flat pic and use the same technique I’ve been doing this for many many years I’d rather use my fingers and alternate them because it’s more faster rather than alternating a pic then then I still have my thumb to play guitar well so that’s highbred highbred I’m a highbred Fingerstyle guitar player myself and you say thumb pick and hold it like a flat pack so in reality there is no difference

[@acousticguitarlessons]

Mark Brown, are you saying you hybrid pick by holding a thumb pick, like you would a plectrum with your index finger, and then use the other fingers to pluck strings? So then you can alternate between fingerpicking and hybrid picking?

[@jasper_north]

Guess I can not anker my pinky anymore??

[@acousticguitarlessons]

@jasper_north, no, you should still be able to use the pinky for support with hybrid picking :)