Detailed Instructions On How To Properly Hold Your Guitar Pick

While you are learning to master and learn guitar playing techniques with the left hand, you will want to ensure that you do not forget your right hand technique. Many new guitar players when learning to play guitar are unsure how to properly hold a guitar pick. Holding a guitar pick correctly is essential to playing your guitar chords and guitar scales like a pro.

A wrong place guitar pick will stop you short of being able to manage and learn guitar right hand picking techniques such as learning the art of alternate picking.

Before we take a look at how you hold your guitar pick, make sure that your thumb and first finger of your right hand is clean and dry. This will ensure that your guitar pick will not get away from your fingers.

Let us take a closer look at the 9 easy steps that will ensure that you hold your guitar pick properly.

1. Take your guitar pick and place it under your right thumb.

2. Pretend that you grow your thumb nail and has about 4/5ths of your guitar pick tip shows.

3. Now turn your guitar pick at yourself in a 45 degree angle turn. Your guitar pick tip should be pointing towards you now with your thumb pointing parallel to your guitar and body.

4. Place your first finger below the guitar pick.

5. Your first finger position location will be on the right side of the guitar pick goes from center to right side of your guitar pick.

6. From this point you may need to slightly adjust your guitar pick tip position. The key here is that you will keep your guitar pick comfortably, and accurately enough to play your guitar scales and chords properly.

7. Final finger placement: With your remaining three fingers, you can either curl them up in a loose fist, or you can lock all three fingers during the first string. If you are mute your guitar strings with your palm then have your right pinky resting comfortably under the first string.

8. Make sure you have a new guitar pick: Having a fresh guitar pick at all times will ensure that you get a crisp and accurate sound from your right hand when you strum or pick your guitar.After about two hours to play and practice, you will want to switch to a new guitar pick. Longer than two hours, and your guitar pick tip will wear down makes it more difficult to accurately play guitar scales. If everything you do is play guitar chords, so you can use your pickup anymore, unless you play your guitar arpeggio notes.

9. Choosing the right kind of pickup: You'll have to buy a couple of different committees of guitar picks, since there are many to choose options to choose from. A rule of thumb when buying your first guitar pickup is to buy a medium light guitar pick. From there you can decide if you want to play with a tighter or thinner guitar pick, or just keep in medium light style guitar pick.