| Chicken picking is a technique that promote a certain | | | | the use of fingers with a guitar pick, which allows |
| sound in country music, but it has found an important | | | | them to create several layers, and reach notes or |
| use in other styles as well. It involves the use of a | | | | strings that are normally more difficult. |
| guitar pick and the fingers of the picking hand to get | | | | Strings skipping is the other solution, but this |
| several strings going. The fingers usually pluck certain | | | | technique can be very challenging especially when |
| strings very sharply, letting them snap, where upon | | | | crossing over a larger number of strings, plus it |
| soon after the fretting hand will dampen those | | | | doesn't quite help you to get the sound of several |
| strings to make the sound more staccato. This | | | | layers going at once. |
| results in a sort of barn yard sound and appeal. | | | | Chicken picking is just one simple technique that a |
| Chicken picking has now taken a newer form and is | | | | guitar virtuoso will develop for themselves to learn |
| some times referred to as hybrid picking and is used | | | | and master guitar, and though it can be tricky, with a |
| in all sorts of styles of music, but rock virtuosos | | | | little practice, anyone who wants to learn guitar can |
| have taken a big liking to it. Hybrid picking doesn't | | | | use this technique to create some extraordinary |
| necessarily have to have that snappy chicken picking | | | | sounds for guitar playing. |
| sound. What's most important to certain guitarists is | | | | |