The BEST Way to Practice Hybrid Picking!

[@jimclegg5659]

I literally started teaching myself hybrid picking about 3 years ago by watching your KZbin Lessons at half speed, and trying to emulate your hybrid picking technique. Some things I got right, some way off. This hybrid picking course is great for anyone who wants to learn hybrid picking without spending hours and hours watching things at half speed. It is a great way to quickly begin learning the correct techniques of hybrid picking. The course is an excellent investment in yourself as a musician!! And, that PRS looks and sounds FANTASTIC!!! Thanks Corey!

[@coreycongilio]

Thx so much, Jim!

[@ultrakool]

I've always loved the sound of this style. this is right out of the school of thought by none other than greg koch, he himself being a hybrid picking beast

[@chadandrews98]

Thanks. Best suggestions for starting hybrid picking I have seen so far!

[@coreycongilio]

glad it was helpful

[@TjDES]

Great lesson on how to get started, hadn't really thought about the unison concept. Sometimes it just makes more sense to use hybrid and I think I've just realized why I go for it when I do.

[@alexnelson3656]

Love the pentatonic exercise! Subbed and downloaded.

[@coreycongilio]

Nice! Thx so much!

[@pumpkincoffee]

NOW THAT is a sick guitar.

[@rockinvegan1765]

I'm influenced by guitarists like PG and JP, so I focused more on alternate picking. It's time for me to start incorporating more hybrid picking into my playing. Thanks, that is very helpful!

[@kevinkrause7900]

This was great….cant wait to get into the full course!

[@danthegeetarman]

Very cool lesson as always Corey 🙏💪

[@gergemall]

Love it , sounds beautiful. I need to give it a try.❤

[@michaelmerrullo2043]

Got the course the other day. Been wanting to get this technique. Psyched about the course, looking forward to diving into with you.

[@coreycongilio]

Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy!

[@shalomshalom735]

Hey Corey, good video as always. Can you please do a few more videos on hybrid picking and show actual exercises, perhaps a few actual solos over a few videos, break it from easy/simple to hard/difficult over these videos. Reason I'm suggesting it is cause these very basic things about hybrid picking are all over youtube, but what I can't find are effective exercises and even more actual solo break downs in a way that will get us to "change our play forever' (as you titled this video). I hope you would appreciate this thought. Thanks again man!

[@Runark79]

$$$

[@ericbergmueller2981]

Thank you x 1000!

[@PeterKertesz2013]

Hey Corey, on Working Class Guitar > Complete Blues Volume 2 > Rhythm Lesson 2 is really awesome, thank you! 🎸🎵

[@hearpalhere]

Hybrid picking is incredibly useful, I really prefer it for lots of my playing nowadays. I even have incorporated the use of my pinky and that allows for picking/plucking four strings at the same time. Super cool. You make that PRS sound great Corey (as all your guitars)! I think for the longest time, I always associated you with your pelham blue SG or your Epiphone 🙂

[@antonakis79ohyes]

I recently got the major penta course, so my plate is full atm! But that guitar is dope!!!

[@billmitchell2080]

30 years ago I was blown away by Audley Freed. When I realized he was hybrid picking everything seemed possible.

[@paulbrennan2069]

I love the t-shirt!

[@sircharles7323]

Quick and valuable lesson! I started somehow spontaneous with hybrid picking someday, as I didn´t want to lay the pick beside while doing fingerpicking. I agree, that this is a mighty tool and it sounds really great. Also you can do it whenever you want it, while holding the pick. So it brings a great flexibility. If you play pure fingerpicking and want to change to the pick, then you are usually a little bit stressed (where is that fxxxxx pick angain?). Thanks very much ❤

[@vince1229]

Speaking of hybrid picking, Andy Wood played some Matteo Mancuso diagonal quintuplets and said it was hard on the right hand because the Mancuso kid finger picks. If Andy wood said something was hard it means it's impossible for other humans.

[@mrblank-zh1xy]

I'm okay just playing normal music and sounding good

[@MrDavemiley]

Hey Corey, I would like to get a couple of nails done ro assist my hybrid picking. What should i ask for from a person that does nails ? Love your videos !

[@JohnnieCrazy]

What amazing PRS dude! Rock on!

[@BrianDonnelly68]

I just picked up an NF53 with that same finish… amazing guitar!

[@DavidAlvaradoMusic]

In Spanish we actually say "dedo anular" which means "ring finger". The word "anular" comes from latin anularis, anulus, anuli (anillo in Spanish) that means "ring".

[@NoTy-s2t]

Sounds fruity as fk

[@TheSouthernRockShow]

Hey cory! Love your content. Such a tasteful player and all your content is so clear and easy to understand. I am looking at subscribing to your guitar lessons couse. Do you need to be of a certain level or do a certain unferstanding on theory?

[@coreycongilio]

Thx for that. Most course have something for everyone, aside from the very beginner style courses. Feel free to email me and I can give you more details. [e-mail]

[@if6turnedouttobe9]

Diggin' your shirt...and the pickin'...

[@coreycongilio]

Thx!

[@Stevie130]

When you hybrid pick, are you picking the same string with your finger that you hit with your pick? Or is it, note with the pick next with finger ?

[@DarrenAdkins-u3x]

LOVE the Thin Lizzy shirt.

[@DavidSchneiderIP]

!!!!! Yep!

[@SonsOfThunder229]

Always wanted to learn this, thats what the kool kids are doing these days. Just bought the course!

[@coreycongilio]

Oh nice! Thx for jumping in!

[@gustavoadrianjorgecharacan711]

My name is earl playing guitar, Amazing

[@coreycongilio]

About to hang out with Crabman after this video!

[@Serjm87]

What type of nail product are you using on your picking hand?

[@coreycongilio]

Just a nail kit from Amazon. amzn.to/3T4ZwuN

[@rickycarter536]

I've been able to do hybrid picking for a while now but as soon as I increase the speed,the synchronization between the pick and the middle finger gets sloppy.

[@scottmagri6306]

How do you pick 3 note per string scales? Always alternate ? Pick.. finger.. pick?

[@coreycongilio]

You could still alternate between pick and finger if you wanted to

[@kirkwilliams2127]

I want to know about the finger nails.

[@BillyBigBollox-v6b]

No one ever talks about the correct hand position though. If I hold the pick in a normal position, i.e. perpendicular to the strings, the second and third fingers are at a 45 degree angle to the strings and just slide off them. In order to get a clean pluck, I have to hold my whole hand at a right angle to the strings and hold the pick at an acute angle. I don't get it?

[@mikec2582]

Hey Corey. Do you use hybrid picking with your acoustics? If so, why is it different than finger picking?

[@DanAddison]

Just to chime in, I use hybrid on acoustic these days, after formerly playing only fingerstyle. Back then I held my hand in a very ‘classical guitar’ way and was very fluent and dexterous at intricate folkey fingerstyle stuff like Martin Simpson or Nick Drake. I felt my playing and composing stagnated for at least a decade so I banned fingerstyle (and open tunings - a crutch!), and am now decent at hybrid. I admit this prevents me from playing quite such fast spidery sinuous types of complex repeating picking patterns, where all 5 fingers were being used. So I definitely play different (mission accomplished) but with a much broader palette of what’s available. Can do fast picking runs, tremolo picking, get a harder more precise attack, and much improved palm muting, all as standard from a pick, while still having 3 fingers available for all sorts. Has made me explore and eventually appreciate more genres than I had previously. Feels like a superpower. Would recommend.

[@Invertedworldx]

Fking sick beginning lol and tone is so sick lol

[@thebrysmith3]

For hybrid picking that made many players consider tossing their axe and taking up something simple like brain surgery, see Richard Thompson.

[@darrellmiddleton6615]

Country would sound best through filtertrons

[@Rrouthmusic]

I’m having a hard time choosing between the NF53 and Myles Kennedy signature… ugh!

[@Beardyoldsalt]

Brent Mason uses a thumb pick.

[@coreycongilio]

Indeed but, he often uses it as a flat pick too by holding it conventionally

[@Beardyoldsalt]

@coreycongilio Yes he does, I think there is a fairly substantial difference in the two techniques. Great lesson by the way!

[@jeremyversusjazz]

Love hybrid picking. That prs not so much.

[@DrowningTimeOfficially]

what's flat picking? and how is it different from regular?

[@Flacsabbath]

Flatpicking just means using a pick. I’ve heard it used more in the acoustic guitar realm. Picks used to be called flat picks back in the day, but the country crowd uses that term still for any instrument to distinguish between fingerstyle and using a pick.

[@tomcoryell]

I was hybrid picking before it was called hybrid picking.

[@kirkwilliams2127]

Ok

[@greg6L6GC]

Double blade pickups👍

[@Roman8883]

Somehow every time i use hybrid picking, i feel like Al Di Meola is watching and getting mad at me for taking the easy route.

[@Roman8883]

Just kidding, hybrid picking is great: banjo rolls, fast runs, chords voicings etc.And also there's swybrid technique, which is absolutely incredible. Great vid, thank you Corey.

[@handel1111]

PRS guitars are abomination

[@michaeljensen8211]

The green guitar hanging behind on the wall....what guitar is that ?