James Shipway Guitar

Turbocharge your alternate picking technique and learn a bunch of cool picking licks with this Members Only special! I've had a whole bunch of questions about Alternate Picking so I've put together a short picking workout for you to practice. It's packed full of common picking moves and licks to help you supercharge this essential guitar skill. Let's get started! Here's a breakdown of this lesson: 0:26 Here's a demo of the workout we're going to use in this lesson. It's great as an exercise, a warmup and is also made up of some cool picking lick ideas you can pinch and use in your soloing. 0:55 When I play things like this study I use strict down/up picking all the way. Sometimes I'll use a more sweep picking based approach but I find alternate picking works best for me most of the time. Adapt the picking I describe here to suit you - but be consistent with how you're playing it! 1:22 Here are a few essential tips about alternate pickin...

Supercharge your guitar technique and soloing with my free Video Powerpack: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ Alternate Picking Exercises - For Faster, More Accurate Picking! Need some alternate picking exercises to supercharge your alternate picking technique, fret hand accuracy and speed? In this video I'll show you a cool alternate picking exercise you can use to do exactly that. Let's dive in and start boosting your alternate picking! 0:10 In this lesson you'll learn a short alternate picking exercise for powering up your picking and fretting hand speed, accuracy and co-ordination. It's not the most musical of exercises and you probably wouldn't play it in a solo, but it's a powerful workout for your alternate picking and a great warmup exercise too. 0:42 Alternate picking exercises like this can be moved around anywhere on the guitar but we'll start on the D string at the 5th fret. Follow the picking guidelines and finger...

Don't kill your guitar picking technique by making these 5 common picking mistakes! In this picking lesson we cover picking hand tips, picking hand position, holding the pick, alternate picking and more. I'll also show you 3 simple alternate picking technique exercises you can use to practice and develop your picking chops. So jump in and give your picking technique a workout! FREE video powerpack here: https://jamesshipway.lpages.co/video-powerpack-page-new/ I started my channel to you the kind of 'BS free' and no nonsense guitar lessons I think you want.  So if you want to understand 'how to play'...rather than just learn 'what to play'  then subscribe and look out for all my regular weekly (mostly!) lessons. Dig in, have fun...and thanks for watching!  SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgEEEz7ZNL8572YERffNfuw?sub_confirmation=1  Check out http://jamesshipwayguitar.com for hours of free guitar lessons, free e books and j...