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Geeetar4Life
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Geeetar4Life
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Joined: 10/15/07
Posts: 138
12/23/2007 3:52 pm
I don't hold my pick completely parallel, but it definitely isn't perpendicular. It's just a little bit tilted to fit my confort. Whatever you are comfortable with, go with it. As long as your hand is relaxed and you aren't stiff, then that's fine unless you really want to get all technical about it.

When it comes to picking faster, practice reverse picking. You gain so much more speed with reverse picking rather than one way picking. When it comes to practicing reverse picking, you can just run through some pentatonic scales and go at your own speed to get comfortable with it.
Good luck!
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