Guitar skills: Sweep picking is a technique best suited to arpeggios played one note per string. The picking technique itself is much the same as strumming a chord in slow motion. Try holding a barre ...

When playing guitar or bass, one of the choices we can make at any stage is whether to play with a guitar pick or with our fingers. Both ways require a different approach with the picking hand, and ...

As part of Radio 2's Guitar Season, we're proud to bring you the Guitar Pick Up - A series of online guitar lessons that aims to inspire beginners to pick up the instrument as well as those who ...

Hybrid picking is an electric and acoustic guitar technique that involves a mixture of plectrum ‘flatpicking’ and fingerstyle technique. The style is most synonymous with players such as Chet Atkins, ...