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Im going to talk about the ways in which Ive employed ideas Ive learned from guitarists in different genres
to my own playing. To start off, Im going to show you a lick in the key of B that I use on the track The
Nightmare Unravels, from my album The Art of Malice.
To perform this lick, I use the technique known as hybrid picking, which involves using the bare fingers to
pluck strings in conjunction with a flatpick. The best way to describe the technique and how it sounds is
through demonstration, so check out the performance of FIGURE 1 on this columns accompanying video
lesson to hear it in a rock context.
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Note the unique popping sound created by the
combination of finger picking and flat picking.
Country guitar great Albert Lee is a master of this
technique, and it is used to great effect in a rock
context by players such as Steve Morse and Zakk
Wylde. While hybrid picking can provide you with
another cool way to vary your tone, it also allows you
to easily perform string-skipping runs that would be
arduous to play using just a pick.
Some country purists wouldnt involve the use of a
pick, just the thumb and first two fingers of the picking
hand (see PHOTO 1). But since I like to incorporate
this technique into my rock playing, I often use my
pick in conjunction with my middle and ring fingers.
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the very last note (the B at the 19th fret on the high E
string), this run is played entirely on the D and B
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