Tim Scott's Guitar Lessons

Tim’s Sweep Picking Exercises
Free Guitar Tab Download
Free Chord Box Download
Free Guitar Fingerboard Chart Download
Free Bass Guitar Tab Download

Correct Pick Technique Tutorial 

How to hold “Your Pick Of Destiny” correctly...

This is one of the most fundamentally important things you can learn and will enable you to play quickly and accurately, while achieving a great tone from any guitar you play.

Hold your plectrum between the side of the first finger and thumb with the tip pointing out from the bottom side of the thumb, with the tip of the pick level with beginning or cuticle of the thumb nail.

This allows for easy pinched harmonics and also thumb muting with the part of the thumb left free up from where the pick is held.

The tip of the pick should protrude no more than a 2mm from the side of the thumb. Keep your other fingers in a relaxed curled in position.

Hold the pick against the string at a 20-30 degree angle so the front is facing you and rear is pointing towards the bridge and volume & tone controls. This produces much more rich and character full tone than flat picking.

Also varying the angle of the pick has a subtle but very effective dynamic on the sound produced try experimenting with this to find the tone you desire.

Holding the pick at this angle also prevents over picking which is all too evident if the string is going sharp sounding from harsh plucking or pulling the pick out from under the string which makes it snap back against the frets.

The pick should always feel as though it is just brushing through the strings. This enables the use of heavier plectrums which in turn give a much beefier sound.

Try picking as close to the end of the finger board as is comfortable as this produces an exceptionally warm tone from any guitar.

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Tim's Sweep Picking Exercises Download (pdf)

Five sweep picking exercises to help you develop a corrective sweep technique when performing lighting quick arpeggios. Make sure you strictly observe the down and up picking marks. Remember ‘v’ is up and ‘n’ is down.

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Free Guitar Tab Download (pdf)

Six lines of blank guitar tab in A4 format designed to be printed off for use in writing out guitar tabs.

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Free Chord Box Download (pdf) 

Sixteen blank guitar chord boxes in A4 format designed to be printed off for use in writing out guitar chord charts.

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Free Guitar Finger Board Chart Download (pdf) 

Learn all the notes of the guitar finger board to help you master scales and chords seamlessly through all keys.

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Free Bass Guitar Tab Download (pdf) 

Seven lines of Blank 4 string bass guitar tab in A4 format designed to be printed off for use in writing out bass tabs.

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