Chords for Intro To Hybrid Picking Part 1
Tempo:
129.5 bpm
Chords used:
D
A
E
B
Bm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[D] [F] [D]
[E] [B]
[Bb] [D]
[Eb]
The subject of this tutorial is hybrid picking, and this is a technique that's used on both
acoustic and electric guitar.
It serves a couple purposes.
Number one being that it makes a lot of passages easier to execute.
When you have notes that go across a lot of different strings, if you're playing arpeggios
or just a melodic line that hops around quite a bit, it can be easier to use hybrid picking
than having to move your pick around quite as much.
The other reason that you'd use it is for some stylistic effects.
You can end up accenting some chords and separating notes a little bit more than just using your pick.
As far as the technique goes, hybrid picking is a combination of regular picking [D] with a
pick and straight up finger picking.
And so you'll hold the pick between the thumb and first finger as normal with your right
hand, but also you'll employ your middle finger and your ring finger on your right hand to
execute notes as well.
A lot of players will grow out their fingernails to get more of an attack, and some people
will reinforce their nails with some acrylic hardener as I've done, and that just keeps
the steel strings from chewing up your fingernails.
But whether you're using just fingertips or fingernails, you can still use this technique.
So let's look at an application that would really lend itself to hybrid picking.
Let's start with a D major chord, and we'll leave the top off of this.
So we'll leave out the third, and we'll just be playing strings four, three, and two out
of a D major chord.
I've got the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string, and 4th finger on the 3rd
fret of the 2nd string.
And so I'm gonna play four, three, and two, then add a C on the 3rd fret of the 5th string,
and play strings three and two again.
Then add a B on the 2nd fret of the 5th [Bm] string, [G] then a G on the 3rd fret of the 6th string,
[D] and then I'll go back to the 2nd fret of the 5th [B] string again, and this time play strings
three and [D] two together.
Then back [C] to the third fret of the fifth string [D] and play those strings together again.
[Em] Now if I try to execute this passage with my [Ab] pick, it's possible, [Bb] but it is a little
bit of a pain having to jump this pick around quite so [D] much.
[F]
[Bm] [G] [Bm] [D]
[Bm] [G] [Bm] [D] You [Em] notice [B] also as I'm hitting those chords, [D]
it's kind of hard to be accurate about hitting
those two strings by themselves, and also those notes get kind of washed together as
the pick goes through both of them.
If I apply hybrid picking by picking just the bass notes and using my fingers on the
chord tones, I can get a little bit more definition.
[Bm]
[D] [Bm]
[F] [D] And I'm able to sort of separate these [Em] two notes as [Abm] well as give them a little bit of accenting.
[D] You'll notice when you hit those two strings together, you kind of claw it a little bit.
You flatten out your hand and pull up.
So let's play that a little bit more up-tempo, [G] [D]
and in our next segment we'll look at a couple
more applications of hybrid picking.
[E]
[N]
[E] Hi, I'm Jeff [A] Carlisi from [E] 38 Special, it's nice to be with [A] you today.
[B]
[A] [E] The technique, once again, is holding the pick between the [A] thumb and the forefinger,
[B] and then using [E] third and fourth fingers to pick the chord.
That's that whole Jerry [A]
[A] Reid
[B]
[A] [E] Childhood [A] [E] illusions, merely [A] [B] delusions of a [E] girl that I see.
[B] [Dbm] [A]
[E] [B]
[Bb] [D]
[Eb]
The subject of this tutorial is hybrid picking, and this is a technique that's used on both
acoustic and electric guitar.
It serves a couple purposes.
Number one being that it makes a lot of passages easier to execute.
When you have notes that go across a lot of different strings, if you're playing arpeggios
or just a melodic line that hops around quite a bit, it can be easier to use hybrid picking
than having to move your pick around quite as much.
The other reason that you'd use it is for some stylistic effects.
You can end up accenting some chords and separating notes a little bit more than just using your pick.
As far as the technique goes, hybrid picking is a combination of regular picking [D] with a
pick and straight up finger picking.
And so you'll hold the pick between the thumb and first finger as normal with your right
hand, but also you'll employ your middle finger and your ring finger on your right hand to
execute notes as well.
A lot of players will grow out their fingernails to get more of an attack, and some people
will reinforce their nails with some acrylic hardener as I've done, and that just keeps
the steel strings from chewing up your fingernails.
But whether you're using just fingertips or fingernails, you can still use this technique.
So let's look at an application that would really lend itself to hybrid picking.
Let's start with a D major chord, and we'll leave the top off of this.
So we'll leave out the third, and we'll just be playing strings four, three, and two out
of a D major chord.
I've got the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string, and 4th finger on the 3rd
fret of the 2nd string.
And so I'm gonna play four, three, and two, then add a C on the 3rd fret of the 5th string,
and play strings three and two again.
Then add a B on the 2nd fret of the 5th [Bm] string, [G] then a G on the 3rd fret of the 6th string,
[D] and then I'll go back to the 2nd fret of the 5th [B] string again, and this time play strings
three and [D] two together.
Then back [C] to the third fret of the fifth string [D] and play those strings together again.
[Em] Now if I try to execute this passage with my [Ab] pick, it's possible, [Bb] but it is a little
bit of a pain having to jump this pick around quite so [D] much.
[F]
[Bm] [G] [Bm] [D]
[Bm] [G] [Bm] [D] You [Em] notice [B] also as I'm hitting those chords, [D]
it's kind of hard to be accurate about hitting
those two strings by themselves, and also those notes get kind of washed together as
the pick goes through both of them.
If I apply hybrid picking by picking just the bass notes and using my fingers on the
chord tones, I can get a little bit more definition.
[Bm]
[D] [Bm]
[F] [D] And I'm able to sort of separate these [Em] two notes as [Abm] well as give them a little bit of accenting.
[D] You'll notice when you hit those two strings together, you kind of claw it a little bit.
You flatten out your hand and pull up.
So let's play that a little bit more up-tempo, [G] [D]
and in our next segment we'll look at a couple
more applications of hybrid picking.
[E]
[N]
[E] Hi, I'm Jeff [A] Carlisi from [E] 38 Special, it's nice to be with [A] you today.
[B]
[A] [E] The technique, once again, is holding the pick between the [A] thumb and the forefinger,
[B] and then using [E] third and fourth fingers to pick the chord.
That's that whole Jerry [A]
[A] Reid
[B]
[A] [E] Childhood [A] [E] illusions, merely [A] [B] delusions of a [E] girl that I see.
[B] [Dbm] [A]
Key:
D
A
E
B
Bm
D
A
E
[D] _ _ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ The subject of this tutorial is hybrid picking, and this is a technique that's used on both
acoustic and electric guitar.
It serves a couple purposes.
_ Number one being that it makes a lot of passages easier to execute.
When you have notes that go across a lot of different strings, if you're playing arpeggios
or just a melodic line that hops around quite a bit, it can be easier to use hybrid picking
than having to move your pick around quite as much.
_ The other reason that you'd use it is for some stylistic effects.
You can end up accenting some chords and separating notes a little bit more than just using your pick.
_ _ As far as the technique goes, hybrid picking is a combination of regular picking [D] with a
pick _ and straight up finger picking.
And so you'll hold the pick between the thumb and first finger as normal with your right
hand, but also you'll employ your middle finger and your ring finger on your right hand to
execute notes as well.
A lot of players will grow out their fingernails to get more of an attack, and some people
will reinforce their nails with some acrylic hardener as I've done, and that just keeps
the steel strings from chewing up your fingernails.
But whether you're using just fingertips or fingernails, you can still use this technique.
_ So let's look at an application that would really lend itself to hybrid picking.
Let's start with a D major chord, _ and we'll leave the top off of this.
So we'll leave out the third, and we'll just be playing strings four, three, and two _ out
of a D major chord.
I've got the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string, and 4th finger on the 3rd
fret of the 2nd string.
And so I'm gonna play four, three, and two, _ _ then add a C on the 3rd fret of the 5th string,
and play strings three and two again.
_ _ Then add a B on the 2nd fret of the 5th [Bm] string, _ _ [G] then a G on the 3rd fret of the 6th string,
_ [D] _ _ and then I'll go back to the 2nd fret of the 5th [B] string again, and this time play strings
three and [D] two together. _
Then back [C] to the third fret of the fifth string [D] and play those strings together again.
[Em] Now if I try to execute this passage with my [Ab] pick, it's possible, [Bb] _ but it is a little
bit of a pain having to jump this pick around quite so [D] much.
_ [F] _ _
[Bm] _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ You [Em] notice [B] also as I'm hitting those chords, [D] _ _ _
it's kind of hard to be accurate about hitting
those two strings by themselves, and also those notes get kind of washed together as
the pick goes through both of them.
If I apply hybrid picking by picking just the bass notes and using my fingers on the
chord tones, I can get a little bit more definition.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ And I'm able to sort of separate these [Em] two notes as [Abm] well as give them a little bit of accenting.
[D] You'll notice when you hit those two strings together, you kind of claw it a little bit.
You flatten out your hand and pull up.
So let's play that a little bit more up-tempo, _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and in our next segment we'll look at a couple
more applications of hybrid picking.
_ _ [E] _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Hi, I'm Jeff [A] Carlisi from [E] 38 Special, it's nice to be with [A] you today.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] [E] The technique, once again, is holding the pick between the [A] thumb and the forefinger, _
[B] and then using [E] third and fourth fingers to _ _ pick the chord.
That's that whole Jerry _ [A] _ _
[A] Reid_
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[A] [E] Childhood _ _ [A] _ [E] illusions, merely [A] [B] delusions of a [E] girl that I see. _
[B] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ The subject of this tutorial is hybrid picking, and this is a technique that's used on both
acoustic and electric guitar.
It serves a couple purposes.
_ Number one being that it makes a lot of passages easier to execute.
When you have notes that go across a lot of different strings, if you're playing arpeggios
or just a melodic line that hops around quite a bit, it can be easier to use hybrid picking
than having to move your pick around quite as much.
_ The other reason that you'd use it is for some stylistic effects.
You can end up accenting some chords and separating notes a little bit more than just using your pick.
_ _ As far as the technique goes, hybrid picking is a combination of regular picking [D] with a
pick _ and straight up finger picking.
And so you'll hold the pick between the thumb and first finger as normal with your right
hand, but also you'll employ your middle finger and your ring finger on your right hand to
execute notes as well.
A lot of players will grow out their fingernails to get more of an attack, and some people
will reinforce their nails with some acrylic hardener as I've done, and that just keeps
the steel strings from chewing up your fingernails.
But whether you're using just fingertips or fingernails, you can still use this technique.
_ So let's look at an application that would really lend itself to hybrid picking.
Let's start with a D major chord, _ and we'll leave the top off of this.
So we'll leave out the third, and we'll just be playing strings four, three, and two _ out
of a D major chord.
I've got the 2nd finger on the 2nd fret of the 3rd string, and 4th finger on the 3rd
fret of the 2nd string.
And so I'm gonna play four, three, and two, _ _ then add a C on the 3rd fret of the 5th string,
and play strings three and two again.
_ _ Then add a B on the 2nd fret of the 5th [Bm] string, _ _ [G] then a G on the 3rd fret of the 6th string,
_ [D] _ _ and then I'll go back to the 2nd fret of the 5th [B] string again, and this time play strings
three and [D] two together. _
Then back [C] to the third fret of the fifth string [D] and play those strings together again.
[Em] Now if I try to execute this passage with my [Ab] pick, it's possible, [Bb] _ but it is a little
bit of a pain having to jump this pick around quite so [D] much.
_ [F] _ _
[Bm] _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ You [Em] notice [B] also as I'm hitting those chords, [D] _ _ _
it's kind of hard to be accurate about hitting
those two strings by themselves, and also those notes get kind of washed together as
the pick goes through both of them.
If I apply hybrid picking by picking just the bass notes and using my fingers on the
chord tones, I can get a little bit more definition.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ [D] _ _ And I'm able to sort of separate these [Em] two notes as [Abm] well as give them a little bit of accenting.
[D] You'll notice when you hit those two strings together, you kind of claw it a little bit.
You flatten out your hand and pull up.
So let's play that a little bit more up-tempo, _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ and in our next segment we'll look at a couple
more applications of hybrid picking.
_ _ [E] _ _
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Hi, I'm Jeff [A] Carlisi from [E] 38 Special, it's nice to be with [A] you today.
[B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] [E] The technique, once again, is holding the pick between the [A] thumb and the forefinger, _
[B] and then using [E] third and fourth fingers to _ _ pick the chord.
That's that whole Jerry _ [A] _ _
[A] Reid_
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[A] [E] Childhood _ _ [A] _ [E] illusions, merely [A] [B] delusions of a [E] girl that I see. _
[B] _ _ _ [Dbm] _ [A] _ _ _ _