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Guitar Gym: Hybrid Picking
Hybrid picking exercises to take your playing to the next level
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About this course
In this edition of Guitar Gym, it’s all about two essential picking hand elements; the pick itself and the remaining fingers, namely the second (middle or P2). Split into three leveled sections, these workouts guide you through a comprehensive, rigorous practice regimen designed to get these essential playing elements solidified and ready to build on. Buono will guide you through 27 Workouts across 3 levels. The workouts are organized into 3-tempo s sets (slow, medium, fast) each with an accompanying overview video where Buono explains the ins and outs for practicing the workouts. Each Workout is also clearly laid out for you in Guitar Pro, which can also be adjusted to any tempo. Buono will perform each workout on video (in various views) for the prescribed amount of time and so you’ll always have your coach there to playalong with and sweat it all out with in Guitar Gym.
Each Guitar Gym course focuses on a specific guitar technique by guiding the student through a deliberately prescribed series of optimized workouts, organized across a series of levels with increasing intensity. Buono demonstrates each of the workouts by explaining how the workout is engineered and then showing you how to play the workout correctly.
The workouts are ALL interactive video playalongs -- Buono performs each workout with you, for the correct amount of time, at all of the prescribed tempos. You will not be alone in the shed!
All of the workouts also include text guides, PDF charts, Guitar Pro files and all of the practice metronome tracks, at all of the prescribed tempos. Everything you need to develop monster chops by practicing correctly is included.
Practice does NOT make perfect -- "perfect" practice does. We've heard this time and again from our instructors and we get it; practice the wrong thing, or practice the wrong way, and you'll learn how to play it perfectly wrong. Makes "perfect" sense but what exactly do we practice, and how specifically do we practice it? TrueFire's resident Professor of the Deep, Chris Buono has invested the last couple of decades coming up with the answer.
Developing solid guitar techniques is particularly subject to the quality and intensity of your practice regimens -- you'll only get so far relying on repetition and frequency alone. Chris Buono's Guitar Gym workouts will take you the rest of the way with 12 collections of tried, tested and proven intensive workouts for Triad Arpeggios, Tapping, Hybrid Picking, Alternate Picking, Hammers & Pull-Offs, Power Chords, Scales, Speed Picking,Triads, Harmonic Minor Triad Chord Scales, Major Triad Chord Scales and Melodic Minor Triad Chord Scales
Guitar Gym -- your path to "perfect" chops!
Each Guitar Gym course focuses on a specific guitar technique by guiding the student through a deliberately prescribed series of optimized workouts, organized across a series of levels with increasing intensity. Buono demonstrates each of the workouts by explaining how the workout is engineered and then showing you how to play the workout correctly.
The workouts are ALL interactive video playalongs -- Buono performs each workout with you, for the correct amount of time, at all of the prescribed tempos. You will not be alone in the shed!
All of the workouts also include text guides, PDF charts, Guitar Pro files and all of the practice metronome tracks, at all of the prescribed tempos. Everything you need to develop monster chops by practicing correctly is included.
Practice does NOT make perfect -- "perfect" practice does. We've heard this time and again from our instructors and we get it; practice the wrong thing, or practice the wrong way, and you'll learn how to play it perfectly wrong. Makes "perfect" sense but what exactly do we practice, and how specifically do we practice it? TrueFire's resident Professor of the Deep, Chris Buono has invested the last couple of decades coming up with the answer.
Developing solid guitar techniques is particularly subject to the quality and intensity of your practice regimens -- you'll only get so far relying on repetition and frequency alone. Chris Buono's Guitar Gym workouts will take you the rest of the way with 12 collections of tried, tested and proven intensive workouts for Triad Arpeggios, Tapping, Hybrid Picking, Alternate Picking, Hammers & Pull-Offs, Power Chords, Scales, Speed Picking,Triads, Harmonic Minor Triad Chord Scales, Major Triad Chord Scales and Melodic Minor Triad Chord Scales
Guitar Gym -- your path to "perfect" chops!
What you'll learn
- Play forward and backward motion arpeggios through complete chord scales
- Add ring finger (P3) to existing hybrid picking technique
- Understand how to create an effective practice schedule
- Learn the three-tier tempo system used throughout Guitar Gym
- Understand injury prevention and body awareness while practicing
Release date: 11/20/2013 • 2h 20m runtime
Sample lessons
Hybrid Picking: Level 1
Workout #3: Overview
Hybrid Picking: Level 1
Workout #3: 40 BPM
Hybrid Picking: Level 2
Workout #1: Overview
Hybrid Picking: Level 2
Workout #1: 80 BPM
What's included
42 lessons • 27 charts • 27 Jam Tracks
Guitar Gym: Hybrid Picking
Chops: Our heroes have'm and we all want'em. In order to get'em you gotta do what any other person training to better themselves in some way would do - get to the gym! Well, that's exactly what you’re going to do - welcome to the Guitar Gym series. No matter what level you're at or if you have various strong and weak points in your technique, Guitar Gym has you covered. Each course is comprised of a collection of leveled Workouts waiting for you to dig into.
Here in Guitar Gym | Hybrid Picking it’s all about two pick hand elements – the pick and your remaining fingers namely the second (middle or P2). Split into three leveled sections Guitar Gym | Hybrid Picking guides you through a comprehensive, rigorous game plan for you to get this extremely useful technique together. Each level is split up into three Workouts made up of 13 video segments starting with the Overview where I'll give you a quick synopsis of what's in store. The following 12 videos are the three Workouts further split up into three tempos - slow, medium, fast - that all have an accompanying Introduction video where I explain the ins and outs on how to play the Workout. Each Workout is clearly laid out for you in Power Tab and will be readily available for you to download right from the TrueFire player. In the three actual Workout videos I will play through the Workout for the amount of time I prescribe in the Overview and Introduction videos so you always have me right there with you (in various views) as you sweat it all out here in Guitar Gym.
At the heart of any drilling regimen including this one is precise timing. It not only keeps things orderly in all aspects of music, but it also serves as a guide and indicator as to how you're progressing. What's more, anyone who has been in the chops shed knows that one of the most important practices is to increase the tempo incrementally one-by-one. While the three parts of each Workout will be presented in a slow-medium-fast fashion in regards to tempo, it's up to you to take the Workout into your own shed and incrementally up the tempo while you practice, preparing you for the next tempo mark. Dig?
Ready!?
Let's do it do it!!
Working Out In the Gym
Developing great chops is not about just mindlessly drilling an exercise over and over. There has to be a method to the madness...
First and foremost you need to create what I call in my Guitar Gym Online Classroom a Workout Schedule. My Workout Schedules carve out a set amount of time on set days of the week that slot out precisely what it is your going to play. This helps big time and the results are inspiring to say the least! And, this is not as much time as you might expect. If you're working on just one skill such as the one here in this course you need but 15-30 minutes a day depending on how many Workouts you want to drill down. That said, you could set it up so you do a morning and evening session. The key is focused, disciplined practice time with a metronome. Just stick to your "WS" and let your fingers do the rest!
Speaking of focus and discipline when starting to put together your own WS keep this mantra in mind: You absolutely must start out playing the Workouts slow and gradually climb up the tempo ladder to the top tempo tier. No if's, and's or lazy butts about it. Even if you think you can play the Workout at the medium tempo, trust me, knock it down to the lowest tier and build. You may be masking playing anomalies you don't even know are there by jumping into passages at a medium to high tempo. Slowing down what you're playing will reveal what you may need to work on. Do it!
Not only does starting out at the lowest tempo tier ensure you'll get the most out of your practice time, but it will also help to prevent any injuries. Notice I mentioned 15-30 minute Workout Schedules, spaced out if you want to do more, and not marathon sessions. Playing in reasonable blocks of time is a much safer way to build your muscle memory as well as help you attain the ultimate skill in playing proficiently on the guitar: The art of relaxation. If you're relaxed and keeping your practice time calculated and spaced out, you'll be safe and successful.
First and foremost you need to create what I call in my Guitar Gym Online Classroom a Workout Schedule. My Workout Schedules carve out a set amount of time on set days of the week that slot out precisely what it is your going to play. This helps big time and the results are inspiring to say the least! And, this is not as much time as you might expect. If you're working on just one skill such as the one here in this course you need but 15-30 minutes a day depending on how many Workouts you want to drill down. That said, you could set it up so you do a morning and evening session. The key is focused, disciplined practice time with a metronome. Just stick to your "WS" and let your fingers do the rest!
Speaking of focus and discipline when starting to put together your own WS keep this mantra in mind: You absolutely must start out playing the Workouts slow and gradually climb up the tempo ladder to the top tempo tier. No if's, and's or lazy butts about it. Even if you think you can play the Workout at the medium tempo, trust me, knock it down to the lowest tier and build. You may be masking playing anomalies you don't even know are there by jumping into passages at a medium to high tempo. Slowing down what you're playing will reveal what you may need to work on. Do it!
Not only does starting out at the lowest tempo tier ensure you'll get the most out of your practice time, but it will also help to prevent any injuries. Notice I mentioned 15-30 minute Workout Schedules, spaced out if you want to do more, and not marathon sessions. Playing in reasonable blocks of time is a much safer way to build your muscle memory as well as help you attain the ultimate skill in playing proficiently on the guitar: The art of relaxation. If you're relaxed and keeping your practice time calculated and spaced out, you'll be safe and successful.
Hybrid Picking
The hybrid picking Workouts you have before you will help develop this amazingly efficient and powerful playing technique, but not without putting the time in. Here in Guitar Gym :: Hybrid Picking you'll go from intervallic shapes to scales chopped up intervals to triadic-based scalular runs - all of which would be much more difficult to play with a traditional picking technique.
Hybrid picking is a technique that involves a combination of pick and pick hand fingers. For our purpose in this course you'll be using your pick hand 2nd (P2) and 3rd fingers (P3). If you have my debut TrueFire course, Funk Fission, then you're very familiar with my pick hand nomenclature. For those of you who are not, the "P" system is assigned to the pick hand fingers to more easily convey pick hand finger assignments. The classical system (p, i, m, a, u) never really clicked with me so I just made it more obvious in my own pedagogical paperwork: T = thumb, P1 = 1st or index finger, P2 = 2nd or middle finger, etc.
Level 1 starts your hybrid picking development slowly and carefully by simply playing two-note perfect 5th intervals on the 6th and 5th strings in Workout #1. That's followed by a vertical journey with perfect 5ths across adjacent string sets in Workout #2. Finally, in Workout #3 you take a diagonal ride, one more time with perfect 5ths, honing that hybrid technique making for a solid foundation. All three Workouts will rock with your pick and P2 as that's the go-to combo for hybrid picking in the beginning stages. Ready?!
Hybrid Picking: Level 1
This Level 1 Hybrid Picking Workout is based on a tried-and-true component in every guitar player's bag - the power chord or more musically correct, the perfect 5th. Since it's crucial you understand and learn the ins and outs of hybrid picking, this Workout and as well as the #2 and #3 are meant to be based on something you already know so you can focus on what's important.
Listen carefully to the suggestions in this Overview video where I give you a few suggestions on how best to start developing a hybrid picking technique such as pick angle and hybrid finger angle and contact points while reinforcing the basic terminology introduced in the Level 1 Overview video. Keep in mind hybrid picking is first and foremost about efficiency. Minimal motion equals much-o results. Take it slow, keep steady and you will get the results you're looking for.
Hybrid Picking: Level 1
This Level 1 Hybrid Picking Workout is based on a tried-and-true component in every guitar player's bag - the power chord or more musically correct, the perfect 5th. Since it's crucial you understand and learn the ins and outs of hybrid picking, this Workout and as well as the #2 and #3 are meant to be based on something you already know so you can focus on what's important.
Listen carefully to the suggestions in this Overview video where I give you a few suggestions on how best to start developing a hybrid picking technique such as pick angle and hybrid finger angle and contact points while reinforcing the basic terminology introduced in the Level 1 Overview video. Keep in mind hybrid picking is first and foremost about efficiency. Minimal motion equals much-o results. Take it slow, keep steady and you will get the results you're looking for.
Hybrid Picking: Level 1
This Level 1 Hybrid Picking Workout is based on a tried-and-true component in every guitar player's bag - the power chord or more musically correct, the perfect 5th. Since it's crucial you understand and learn the ins and outs of hybrid picking, this Workout and as well as the #2 and #3 are meant to be based on something you already know so you can focus on what's important.
Listen carefully to the suggestions in this Overview video where I give you a few suggestions on how best to start developing a hybrid picking technique such as pick angle and hybrid finger angle and contact points while reinforcing the basic terminology introduced in the Level 1 Overview video. Keep in mind hybrid picking is first and foremost about efficiency. Minimal motion equals much-o results. Take it slow, keep steady and you will get the results you're looking for.
Hybrid Picking: Level 1
This Level 1 Hybrid Picking Workout is based on a tried-and-true component in every guitar player's bag - the power chord or more musically correct, the perfect 5th. Since it's crucial you understand and learn the ins and outs of hybrid picking, this Workout and as well as the #2 and #3 are meant to be based on something you already know so you can focus on what's important.
Listen carefully to the suggestions in this Overview video where I give you a few suggestions on how best to start developing a hybrid picking technique such as pick angle and hybrid finger angle and contact points while reinforcing the basic terminology introduced in the Level 1 Overview video. Keep in mind hybrid picking is first and foremost about efficiency. Minimal motion equals much-o results. Take it slow, keep steady and you will get the results you're looking for.
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Reviews
6 results
wholmer
12/23/20
Chris Buono’s Gym Rocks!
Guitar Gym has a great selection of workouts that just like its counterpart will give you a great targeted work-out. These hybrid picking lessons cured my issues with trying to play fast with and without a pick. He figured out a systematic approach broken down into the steps needed to do it right in the shortest time possible.
jcomito
Verified buyer
11/05/20
Excellent course to get started
Chris does a great job of introducing the technique. There is a lot to absorb here if you have not previously tried hybrid picking
Mario64
Verified buyer
10/24/20
Always searching for!
I’m always searching for an exercise for this style of picking. Chris is just the right teacher for keep you in the right track for learning to improve your playing, gradually from the very easy things to master the style. As all the others course of this series, I recommend this one to all the fans of this gorgeous picking style!
aspnet
Verified buyer
07/18/20
Get the basics down
I've never focused on any type of hybrid picking before but this has proved to be a good place to start. Content is broken down into set chunks to be worked on (in the gym). I can see improvements already but I'm taking my time to work through the content to build accurate technique and speed so can't comment on the later stages of the course yet. The tools in the course make this approach easy to stick with.
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