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It may not sound like the most exciting part of playing the guitar, but how you pick the strings has a big effect on both rhythm and lead playing. And, whether you’re an aspiring shredder or you ...

Whether you want to play lead or rhythm, you need to get your picking technique together. We show you how... “Picking the strings, then. Up or down - that’s got to be it, surely?” Essentially, yes.

A multi-genre guitarist, Arthur Rotfeld maintains an active teaching, writing, and performing schedule. You can find out more and contact him at rotfeld.com. • Learn how to add interest by “missing” ...

Jon MacLennan is a Los Angeles-based musician, artist, songwriter, producer, and instructor with 20 years of experience teaching acoustic/electric guitar and ukulele. A graduate of UCLA, MacLennan ...

[Clare] isn’t the most musically inclined person, but she can strum a guitar. Thanks to a little help from an Arduino, she doesn’t even have to do that. She built the strumbot, which handles the ...

Yu Jiang Tham may not have rhythm, but that didn’t stop him from getting up on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon stage and singing “Country Roads,” thanks to his self-strumming guitar, Strumbot. For ...