You might think we need to hit all the notes in a chord with every strum, but very often we hit just three or four strings. Don’t hit all the strings with every strum As you progress, try thicker picks too though, as they’ll give you a bit more control over your sound. If you’re not used to playing with a pick, it can really help to practice with a thin pick that’s nice and bendy. By holding your pick with a light grip, you allow it to glide over the strings easily. Also: it’s really hard to keep your wrist nice and loose when your gripping your pick tightly. But by gripping it too tight, you make it hard for the pick to move past the strings smoothly and it might get caught up in there somewhere. It’s totally normal to want to hold on to the pick tightly, because you don’t want it to move and you don’t want to drop it. You might be tempted to make the up and down movement with your lower part of your arm (your forearm), but though your lower arm will be moving up and down a little bit as well, that’s only a small part of the movement. (Funk guitarist Ross Bolton calls this a ‘drunken wrist’. Most of the movement will come from rotating your lower arm (you could also say: twisting your wrist) and letting your hand and wrist hang loose and follow that motion. Make sure you're not locking your wrist: you need to keep it nice and loose. We’ll take a closer look at how this works later in this guide. Constantly moving your hand also makes it much easier to keep time. By doing this, you don’t have to think about when you need to move your strumming hand: it’s moving all the time. The Journey is available to preorder now via Mascot/The Players Club.Keep your strumming hand moving at all times, even when you’re not hitting any strings for a couple of beats. The full interview with Matteo Mancuso is coming soon to MusicRadar. With just a few easy chords, and a guitar capo to help you on your way, check out our lesson in 10 essential songs for every beginner guitar to play. But I try to play everyday because consistency is the key.”Īnd there is no better time to start than now. I like to work on these together, and that’s how my practice works. I don’t like to work only on my technique, or only on my legato, or on my timing. You can learn these three things when you are learning a song Musically speaking, the three most important things are rhythm, melody and harmony. You can learn these three things when you are learning a song. First of all, I always try to learn songs, because for me repertoire is a very important thing, and when you learn songs you learn a lot. “I just grab the guitar and play what excites me most in that moment. “I don’t have a really rigid practice routine, like arpeggios for 30 minutes then scales for one hour!” he says. The key is to be consistent, to play everyday, and learning songs is the best practice you can get. Whether you play all day or just for an hour at lunch, it doesn’t matter. Practice is essential but you don’t need to be regimented about it.
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