Advanced Guide to Playing Guitar

Right hand speed is crucial for fingerstyle guitar. In this lesson, guitar teacher Your Guitar Sage demonstrates two guitar exercises to develop finger speed.

Now that you are a guitar fingerpicking master, it’s time time to add a moving melody line to the patterns that you have practiced. Learn how in this lesson!

Now that you have given economy picking a try, it’s time to learn more exercises to try out your new guitar picking technique, develop accuracy, and gain speed!

Learn sweep picking, a guitar strumming technique used in folk, country, and rock music, on an A minor chord. It's easy once you get the motion down!

How do you turn a single strum into a rocking guitar riff? With sweep picking, of course! Learn to play an arpeggio in A minor and A diminished in this lesson!