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Technique

The 2 basic picking licks

by Tan Yew Wei on August 20, 2009

Elegant, short, effective, but certainly not simple. These two licks will certainly help you in general playing if you’ve never tried them before. These are in my opinion the basic two licks introduced by Paul Gilbert that will really help anyone make progress. So let’s get straight to them. The first one is mentioned in [...]

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Some Basic Scales

by Tan Yew Wei on July 30, 2009

In this post, I elaborate on the basic major and minor scales, and then tell you how to modify and practice scales, which form an essential part of any musical composition. Let’s not waste any time. The above is the A Major and A Minor scale. Play them, and you will notice a distinct difference [...]

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A Discussion on Picking – Holding the Pick

by Tan Yew Wei on July 18, 2009

In this post, I discuss a few methods on how to hold the pick and some examples of picking itself. Let’s get straight to it. This First picture Illustrates basically the way in which I hold the pick right now. I hold the pick between the flat side of my index finger and my thumb. [...]

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