String Crossing/Skipping

The previous courses in this series covered basic alternate picking. If you’ve successfully worked through those lessons, you should now be comfortable with the basic mechanics of this technique. Of course, not all basslines move neatly from string to string, and you won’t always have the luxury of starting on a new string with a downstroke. In fact, you will often be required to play only one note – or maybe three notes – per string, meaning that the next down or upstroke will occur on a different string. To become fluent with the plectrum it is very important to become comfortable crossing strings in this way. This video course is devoted to helping you do just that.

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