Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A Little Intro to Picking

The first (part of a) song I attempted to learn was the beginning to Jack Johnson's Banana Pancakes because it was an easy way to get introduced to picking.

If you don't know the song, here it is in all of its glory!


Just listen to the beginning part of the song. The picking of that was shown to me like this:


This is a layout o the progression of the intro to the song. It is done on the first two strings (the bigger stings). The numerical value represents the fret that you pick on and if there is a forward slash, that represents a slide, where you slide your finger from one fret (the first number listed) to another fret (the other number listed). Super easy. For the song, you repeat this twice. The first time ends with a slide and the second time ends with just picking the largest string on the third fret. Easy!

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