Acoustic Guitar Cross Picking in 5 minutes ★ Acoustic Tuesday 255

Acoustic Tuesday | Guitar Routine Show

Tony Polecastro

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4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Learn cross picking on acoustic guitar in just 4 easy steps with this simple, easy-to-use approach! Cross picking is a picking pattern that involves skipping strings in your picking pattern. It doesn't use fingers, instead opting for a pick. It's a great way to get that cascading finger pick sound but with more bite! The hardest part of cross picking lies in switching pick directions. While normal strumming strikes all the strings in one direction, cross picking has you alternating pick direction with each string you strike. To help you learn how to cross pick, I've created 4 easy steps — think of them as checkpoints or mini-lessons. Once you feel good at one part, move on to the next one! On one final note, don't forget to check out the cross picking musicians that I've listed in the episode. They're incredibly talented and worth giving a listen to if you're interested in learning this great strumming pattern. Featured in this Episode...- Gwenifer Raymond - Bob Minner - SantaCruzGuitarCo

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0:00.0	Hey Emerson, how long is it going to take me to teach cross-picking today?
0:04.5	Five minutes, sir.
0:06.1	Hey, TAC family. This is episode 255 of the Acoustic Tuesday show, a show packed full of inspiration and fun, designed to help you get more fulfillment, progress, and joy out of your guitar journey.
0:30.3	Coming up in a little bit, I've got some questions and comments from the guitar pick episode, and I've got some acoustic news you can use sprinkled throughout today's episode.
0:38.3	But first, let me teach you cross picking in less than five minutes.
0:42.3	And I'm going to give you some great cross pickers to listen to as well.
0:45.3	Go ahead and start your timer.
0:47.3	Step number one is alternate picking, meaning your pick alternates between a downstroke and an upstroke.
0:54.3	The rule is this.
0:55.5	You go down on the downbeat and up on the upbeat.
0:59.0	So if a measure is counted one and two and three and four and, you go down on the numbers
1:04.5	and up on the ands.
1:06.0	It would sound like this.
1:07.8	One and two and three and four and down, up, down, up, down, down, down, down.
1:13.6	You already know how to cross pick. I know it doesn't seem like it, but that's what brings us to step two.
1:20.6	Even cross picking. Instead of staying on one string, we're going to pick across strings.
1:26.6	Cross picking. What I want you to do is grab a chord, we're going to grab a C chord, we're going to pick across strings. Cross picking.
1:28.3	What I want you to do is grab a chord.
1:30.3	We're going to grab a C chord.
1:31.3	We're going to go down on the A string, up on the D, down on the G, up on the B.
1:37.3	That's cross picking.
1:38.3	So at speed, it would sound like this.
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