Originally Posted by: GrassrootWhat is chicken picking?

Long before 'them long-haired hippy-types' :) got adventurous with different picking techniques, blues and country musicians were using palm muting to add variety to their sound.

In it's simplest form, chicken picking is a series of muted notes followed by a bent unmuted note. This loosely imitates a clucking chicken. (buck-buck-buck-buck-buck-AAACK).