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How to Pick a Guitar String for Beginners

total beginners Oct 07, 2020

How to pick a guitar string for beginners is one thing that will make or break your guitar playing. Hey guys, Brad Litton from SimpleGuitar.com here with another Total Beginner guitar lesson for you. Today's guitar tutorial is a short one about the guitar tips and tricks on how to pick strings on a guitar. How you pick your guitar strings can affect how you learn and how fast and accurate your playing is. As usual, this guitar picking technique applies whether you play electric guitar or acoustic guitar.
 
Beginner guitar picking can make playing guitar so much easier for you. If you're wanting to learn how to play guitar well, then getting your guitar picking (starting with how hold your guitar pick) right will make playing music on your guitar more fun. Some guys will refer to this specific technique as pickslanting, so if you see that phrase around this is what they're talking about. Basically, you want to tilt your guitar pick a little bit so when you play your guitar string, only one edge of the pick hits the string. Then when you pick up, the other edge of the pick hits the string.

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A lot of the advice on what to do when you start learning guitar comes from the thinking "That's how I learned, so everyone must learn that way", but that isn't always the best advice.

I'll help you with 10 kinda counter-intuitive things you should learn on guitar first that will give you the most bang for your buck so that you can go from being a beginner to feeling like a confident guitar player that wows your friends in less time.