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1. Hold the pick between your thumb and first finger. 2. Use as little grip strength as you can. Grip too tight and your fingers will tire – and you'll keep dropping those picks!

Molly Tuttle began turning heads back in 2019 with her preternatural flatpicking skills and bluegrass grooves, which she put ...

The blues rock giant sits down with Guitar World to go through his back catalog of riffs, picking out a few favorites along ...

First get used to playing the eighth-note bassline using your pick to play downstrokes throughout. Next use the second, third and fourth fingers to pluck the notes on the top three strings. Notice ...

First of all, set your metronome to around 120 beats per minute (bpm) and pick an open string using all downstrokes. Then start using alternate picking on the open string at the same tempo. These ...

Bluegrass stalwart Molly Tuttle knows a thing or two about the genre: she has, after all, firmly established herself as ...

If you see a guitar has Schaller, Sperzel, or Grover tuners, that is a good sign. Electronics: The potentiometers that control an electric guitar's volume and tone can be configured in different ways.

Buy LokFy 5-Piece Black Rubber Pick Holder $6.99. 2. Guitar Picks Case Keychain. A little more decorative, these leather keychain pick holders are perfect as gifts — or for anyone who likes to ...

The Air Guitar Move for iPhone is a guitar pick that plugs into your phone. Inside the pick is an accelerometer, so it knows just how hard you are thrashing. A pair of companion apps works with ...