Thumbpick always. Fingernails or metal fingerpicks depending on what I feel like at the time. Flatpick sometimes.( for acoustic or 12 string)
Couple of suggestions I haven't seen-Headphones while practicing the electric. If you can't hear them (or pretend you can't), they can't interrupt a...
Check your PM Mason.
It gets easier when you've developed the muscles to do it well.Hands don't automatically have all the strength needed so you have to build up to it.Th...
That's as good a reason as any to start.But, really, I don't think a person has to have a reason to start playing guitar.I continue to play guitar bec...
If you have some fingerstyle tabs to work on that will keep you from getting TOO set in pattern picking.The goal is to get your fingers working indepe...
Start with pattern picking. Pick slowly and perfectly. You're trying to build muscle memory so build it right.Give it the time it needs to develop.Wh...
I may be generalizing but... I've been around awhile and I've observed that NY/NJ folk tend to make remarks that the rest of the country might regard ...
If the frets aren't deeply grooved a "fret dressing" job can level them and give you extended life on the guitar before refretting is needed.I had thi...
I'd like to call the OP's attention to the string spacing on the pictured guitar.Some guitars have narrow necks (also often expressed as nut width) w...
but-- what would you recommend involving packing the guitar? also, I can't help but picture the people at the airport being a little perturbed when I ...
Sometimes you get lucky (I don't plan for it though).Last year about this time I took an inexpensive guitar in softcase on a Frontier flight.I was sea...
How do you find out what dexterity percentile you are in? Finger dexterity measurement - still somewhat on topic so (long answer follows)There is an ...
stubborn mental block which refuses to let me quit Then, alright just change between them and keep practicing, practicing until its automatic. Here...
I'd like to draw your attention to the date of the original posting.January 2009.If he hasn't learned how to change chords in 7 months, he really migh...