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Syncopated Picking

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  1. Sharon Kile ·

    Ben, this one finally made the timing click for me. Been fighting it for a month. Thank you.

  2. SlowHandSteve ·

    Welcome aboard — you picked a good one to start on.

  3. Ray Dunphy ·

    The pinky thing goes away, I promise. Took me about three months.

  4. picknGrin ·

    That's the one that made me finally understand backup. Stick with it.

  5. Curtis Rhodes ·

    There's a slower jam track under the resources tab on this lesson, worth grabbing.

  6. Ben Clark Instructor ·

    Try measure 3 on its own at half tempo, and keep your right hand rolling even when the left hand is behind. The right hand is the metronome.

  7. SlowHandSteve ·

    Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.

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