The 7 Best Hybrid Picking Exercises for Guitar

Jared, keep on keepin' on. New subscriber here. You really do have the approach of the servants heart. That combined with your excellent knowledge base, and forte for teaching, I'm certain many of us around the globe will be able to express our musical hearts more freely and adeptly. Cheers.

thats what i was looking for. playing for 25 years but not familiar with hybric picking...just starting

Got some tabs to help with this stuff?

what do you mean PLANT? You still got to move the fingers, I saw no difference. Can you explain it better?

first time i watched your video and i am in love the way you are teaching.....thanks

Exceptional lesson and exercises!!!

Great lesson Jared - The last few years I have switched from nylon to Telecaster finger-style jazz - I have tried thumb-picks but feel a pick is much more sensitive - I'm now working on your exercises - Tried playing my existing rep but it's like starting over again - Do you think I should try and re-learn everything in Hybrid or draw a line and incorporate the tech going forward?

Great lesson. Haven’t been able to crack hybrid picking effectively. Lot of new concepts, and more importantly exercises to develop the techniques. “Planting”

I've always neglected hybrid picking because I don't see the point. Even if you're playing electric, just hide your pick in your pinky and bring it back out when you needed lol But I want to give it a shot and this video is quite useful. Thank you!

I heard of your channel today and I was so excited that I subscribe.

It's awesome

Thanks,. Your class is holistic

Great stuff!!! Now I have about 3 months worth of practicing techniques!! Thank You.. !!!🏌️👍🏻👍🏻🎸🎸🎸

Thanks for the great start up lesson for hybrid picking.
I just recently viewed a video of a guitar player that I have been paying attention to for lessons for sometime now. He was explaining how he made the transition from pure picking to hybrid picking and wow!!!! It was a massive difference from what he sounded like before!!!
It opens up a whole new world🎶🎶
Thanks for the introduction to hybrid picking 👍💯

Thanks for this lesson, Jared! Certainly learning to plant will improve my Fingerstyle picking and my hybrid picking. On the whole all the exercises will help. I had no idea what exercises to do to improve my hybrid picking ability. This is exactly what I needed to see.
Many thanks 🙏🙏🙏😍🦘

I wish you could go TOTALLY slower and use a LOT more explanation.

Good video. Way too much talking.

awesome stuff

Thank You!

Thanks for the free tips, I am WAY IN THE beginning of my journey! I'm checking g out guitars.

When the guitar teacher talks , and talks , and ...talks - it only means that he doesn't understand that the music talks by itself. People hear things , and they can see , what it is done - when it's on the screen. They DO NOT NEED constant explanation floating from never stopping mouth of a addicted to talking , tiring , - word-smith.

Awesome, thanks.

How do you keep from breaking your fingernails? I've tried many different artificial nails and none can withstand fast hybrid picking. If I use natural nails, they break, and my fingers bleed! haha. Any tips?

Flamenco uses the pinky finger. Classical traditionally doesn't. Something that new finger pickers should keep in mind, that you should be firing from the back knuckles when picking. There is a slight arch in your fingers, and a bit of recoil in the middle knuckles, but the bulk of the work should be driven with the back knuckles. Think about it like walking, you wouldn't start driving from your knees, but from your hips. The same concept with finger picking.

This is great. I just retired and part of my plan is to work hard at my guitar playing, both acoustic and electric. I've played with the flatpick quite a bit. But, I've also played a fair amount of finger style country blues. No hybrid yet. Got to get this technique in my bag of tricks. Thank you. Sub'd.

I'm having more trouble with the pick more than the other fingers.

A relative of mine is a relatively successful session guitarist and always speaks about hybrid picking is the most “optimal and versatile” way of playing a steel string and electric guitar. He’s out in Tennessee making a living playing on many artists albums so he must been on to something lol!

Amazing

WOW……EXCELLENT set of exercises and explanations….

thanks ... quick question.. I have been using a thumb pick all the time and can see how the index finger is free with the thumb but not with the flat. ... for practice ... would it be helpful for me to do well with both and if so, maybe using the index finger against the thumb pick may suffice for these exercises..??? I hope to get some exposure to "flat picking" at a local guitar camp in July ... and am open to letting the abilities grow.

Beautifully done

I feel improved

Good stuff, I will practice these.

Great breakdown of this technique. I'm currently adjusting from being a fingerstyle player to a hybrid picker due to a problem with my index finger. Using my 4rh finger still feels bizarre! This was encouraging, so I'll persevere!

Is it critical from an electric guitar player standpoint to use the pinky? I thought the middle and ring fingers were the ones used?

I’ve been doing hybrid picking for years but I never knew it had a name😆

Great lesson and presented very well. Thank you! I’ve been wanting to practice hybrid picking for a while and until now had not found a good way to practice it. This will keep me busy for loong time.

Thanks .. I played for years music and i didnt meet people to make the music i wanted so i play alone now and thanks to start the hybrid picking .. I neeed this starter practice .. :-) A good thing is that i can fingerpick so it wont take weeks .. 🙂

great video! Subbed

Hello there… thank you. Do we need to dedicate the fingers to the strings in this case?? Like with Travis.

Planting the pinky I guess on the guitar itself is out of the question? (For stability)

Hi i watched this video of yours very impressive I've been playing classical guitar that was some time ago but never played with a pick i also watched Sandra Sherman Sherman play I am very interested in jazz guitar but struggling a bit but learnt a lot watching just wanna thank you surely I'm gonna practice the hybrid

This video is so helpful for a beginner of hybrid picking. After saw it for the first time (maybe half year ago) I was fully commited to hybrid picking since then, but there is always a problem troubles me: my middle finger get so curved so that if I pinch adjacent strings with pick and middle finger, the back side of its nail will accidentally mute another adjacent string with 50% chances, which means I have to be so careful when doing the pinch. Just now I re-watched the video and found Jared hold the pick with the pads of both thumb and index fingers (but I used to hold with the side of my index finger and thumb pad), and the right side of the pick touch the string when "planting". I tried this position and immediately, the additional curve of fingers disapper and I can play arpeggio so clean. I'm so grateful for this discovery!

Very clearly demonstrated ; would like to learn these scales you mentioned, but am
looking for actual finger placement not diagrams unless they are specific note for note , position to position. In a video the perfect combination is watching finger placement and hearing the notes as well.

Youre talking wayyyyy to much. Get to the point lol

I hurt my thumb so i have to ring lower chords with a pick why not learn hybrid picking xD

Love this video. Two songs that I've been learning that utilise this type of picking are gentle on my mind and crazy on you (intro)

Brilliantly presented lesson! Thanks heaps, Jared.

Dean lamb from archspire brought me here.