"Travis picking is when you have a constant baseline with your thumb and then you have some melody notes or accompaniment on top."
"After A is our G shape so I hope you went right here and saw this shape and played those roots."
"His style of playing was not just so unique but it was transferable, it was applicable to whatever style of music you were listening to."
"Strumming without a pick opens up a world of possibilities."
"Find the way that works best for you in strumming."
"There's not one right way to fingerstyle—find your own path."
"I got into doing the bend, as I call it, and that's more expressive."
"Using an open string pedal tone is a great way to play riffs and to fill up space."
"Memorize the notes on the neck... if I can do it, you can do it."
"So instead of simply playing that D major chord, I played this fun lick."
"Directional picking allows you to take advantage of pure efficiency of economy picking whenever that is possible."
"Directional picking gives you the best of both worlds."
"Directional picking allows you to play any other lick you can imagine with zero pre-planning and zero thinking."
"Everybody should change, and you'll be surprised just how malleable your guitar technique is."
"I like to keep things simple, and that's why I use directional picking."
"There are like thousands of people out there who've been told that if you cannot play with nails just don't even try to play classical guitar, you're not a serious player. This is historically incorrect and nonsense in my opinion."
"By inadvertently mixing Yngwie's even-numbered note groupings with downward pickslanting, it was like mixing baking soda and vinegar in science class to make a home-made volcano. This was insane."
"I've taught the same technique to several thousand guitar players over the years and today I want to share this wonderful technique with you."
"...instead of only picking the strings that you're fretting eventually what I teach really hardcore on the website is fretting hand muting."
"Simple pentatonic solos are very key to Jon's playing."
"I like that third string really open up there because I do a trick with it where you pick a note, swell hit a harmonic, and bend the string behind the nut. It's better than using a tremolo arm. It's more of an eerie sound."
"He's not doing that in order to be a flash guitarist, he's expressing an idea that that technique allowed him to express."
"If you really take CAGED all the way to the end, you're going to cover your entire fretboard, every chord, every scale, and you're going to know how they all connect together."
"It makes this really cool contrast because one guitar player is starting his riff off lower than the root note and the other guy is starting his riff off higher."
"These little shapes are all over the fretboard, and you can use them as these kind of waypoints to navigate chord progressions and keys."
"Everybody can play the lick, but the way Hendrix tore into the lick... oh [expletive], I got to do that."
"He has a signature sound you could recognize Steve Vai straight away as soon as he plays a lick or bends a note."
"You can build riffs off of these chord shapes."
"This trick of using the open string as a pedal tone and surrounding it with spread thirds can be a lot of fun; it sounds pretty magical on acoustic guitar."
"The amazing MC Reynold style cross picking that Jesse MC Reynolds pioneered back in the day."
"That's some pretty impressive tremolo picking, for the record."
"The more that you study arpeggios, they're used all the time. Nearly all of the great guitar players use arpeggios."
"It's a core alternate picking motion that enables fast string changes through escaped downstrokes."
"It turns out amazingly that there's actually a trick to alternate picking: the simplest and fastest alternate picking motions all require an even number of notes per string."
"The chicken pickin' style is amazing because you can actually mix it with so many other genres."
"I love this lick; if you learn nothing else, you got to walk away with this lick, it's too cool."
"His unique finger-picking guitar style employed different and rarely used guitar tunings, often changing them from song to song."
"Travis picking is a syncopated finger picking technique that involves playing the bass, the harmony, and melody parts of a tune on one guitar at the same time."
"Mark Knopfler was a master of using his fingers as picks and really plucking the strings."
"Really cool little embellishment or a little lick that you're playing off of your C7."
"Palm muting is using it to kind of control your dynamics."
"This incredible consistency of movement, where one picking motion handles all picking combinations, is actually pretty rare."
"Guitar sound, ultimately, comes from your fingers, the way you hit the thing."
"I use some form of palm muting in basically every single thing that I ever play."
"It's just a massive sound, and it's kind of the same thing that someone like Stevie Ray Vaughan or John Frusciante would do."
"Chord shape transportation... uses chord shapes to travel up the neck and connect a solo."
"The whole thing was played using chord shapes."
"You've got these two shapes that you can just keep walking up and down the fretboard and getting the major scale by harmonizing it that way."
"A natural extension of that is to start working on what we call chord melody technique."
"Once you get the harmonized thirds, harmonized sixths down, and know how they connect to the chord shapes, you become this incredible rhythm player."
"There's a really standard rock lick that Jimmy Page plays a lot."
"Economy picking is a technique that opens up a lot of new territory."
"Once you do that a couple of times, your relationship to the B string, that G and B string relationship, your ability to manage it, is completely healed."
"Let's talk about some of the common chord shapes and chords that Jimi would use."
"You can get a lot of mileage out of that."
"It really teaches stamina and consistent accuracy in your picking hand, that's why I think it's such a great one."
"Remember the importance of pivot fingers and fingers that you can use that makes sense for moving from one chord to the next."
"Here's how you play bar chords, guys, and it's counter-intuitive."
"No matter what song you're ever learning when it comes to Travis picking, you can use the steps I'm teaching you here to learn that song."
"That's got a John Mayer kind of vibe to me, I mean he does a lot of this as well, a lot of these harmonized six are in his play."
"That's a technique I learned from Robert Cray, he would do that a lot like vibrato on a chord."
"The rest stroke has more oomph to it, more bass and a more fuller sound, while the free stroke is a bit more airy or lighter in tone."
"If you allow your thumb to float at all times, you can maintain that exact finger spacing that you've developed into your muscle memory."
"Palm mute is one of the most basic guitar techniques ever, and it's one of the most played guitar techniques too."
"If you're into your guitar and you really want to take it forward, it will be so much easier if you know the notes on the fretboard."
"It's sometimes worth using the bottom part of the arm, like the forearm, to mute that E string off as you move across."
"The difference between not knowing what song I'm playing to knowing exactly what song I'm playing is palm muting."
"This particular approach gives you another perspective on the fretboard and some further options."
"You have to learn these drop two voicings off the A string and with the root off the D string to be able to play Wes Montgomery style guitar chord solos."
"Another really cool thing about the arrangement of notes in this pattern is that it enables you to do some economy picking through the scale."
"It's not fast picking with the right hand, it's mostly just pull-offs and slides with the left hand."
"Get as close to the fret as you can without touching it, then we get nice clear sounds."
"Scale patterns are super useful and they are a really good way to work on playing with faster and cleaner technique."
"I developed the most amazing approach for putting the guitar neck into one unit using scales."
"Sounds really cool and I think it adds a lot of that boom chick sound that Merle Travis was obviously an expert at."
"He did some really cool, inventive stuff with tapping and had a really unique tone."
"If you have a guitar, go ahead and grab it and get ready to learn this really cool technique."