What if your pick could be in two places at the same time?
It can’t. That’s actually the whole problem. When you want two notes that are strings apart, a pick can only strum right through everything in between. Hybrid picking solves this: you keep your pick doing exactly what it already does, and your middle and ring fingers handle the strings above. I show you a four-chord pattern here (C add9, Em7, Dsus4, D) where you’re hitting the root note and the 2nd string at the exact same moment, something a plain pick simply can’t pull off.
In this lesson, you’ll learn:
- How hybrid picking works: pick for bass strings, fingers for treble, no grip change needed
- A four-chord pattern (C add9, Em7, Dsus4, D) using widespread double stops across a half-bar groove
- One-finger-per-string assignment so pinky gets the 1st string, middle and ring cover 2nd and 3rd
- How to vary the Dsus4 beat to land the sus-to-3rd resolution right on the downbeat
Play along with the pattern at a comfortable tempo and focus on that root-plus-2nd-string hit landing clean.