Greg Koch: guitar edge lesson

LESSON: Greg Koch's Guitar Gumbo: Picked On (part 2)
Last month, I got so caught up in whining about my difficulties in delivering alternate picked savagery on the guitar with the consistency I desire that I forgot to mention that I am, by no means, a strict adherer to the rule that everything must be alternate picked. I don’t even know if that is possible, but I remember once hearing that Steve Morse (a leviathan of a pick wielder) alternate picked everything. And after hearing and then attempting to play the Dixie Dregs’ “Pride o’ the Farm” and the Steve Morse Band’s “Cruise Missile,” I was thoroughly convinced that such prowess on the guitar could only be achieved via monk-like devotion to the instrument. Although I was a dedicated guitarist by that time, a monk I was not. Read more...

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