Guitar Picking Exercises

Guitar picking exercises are essential for understanding how your motor hand works and getting comfortable with the string span (width and location of all the strings - 'which string am I on?')

Let's begin this lesson with picking a single string, picking in groups of 4 and 2.

Next, we'll pick one string at a time, an open string arpeggio. Notice how your picking arm needs to move to keep the picking motion consistent. It is important to float your hand over the next string you will pick.

'This is how I pick, now go there.'

Sometimes you will fix your hand, or stabilize, but in training, keep the hand floating. Again, 'this is how I pick, now go there.'

Try this guitar picking arpeggio exercise using fingerpicking