Master modern hybrid picking technique. It may have started as a Country thing, but combining the pick and fingers has spread like wildfire across genres.

Video and audio access included! -- Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes is a collection of pieces that will allow you to further develop the technique through studies, compositions, lines, and solos. Each etude comes with suggested fingerings using both tablature and standard notation. They mix legato, alternate and sweep picking, but you can also choose to use fingerstyle/classical technique to play them. You can apply all the concepts presented here to your own phrasing, composition, and improvisation. --"Gustavo's new book is the perfect resource for any guitarist interested in improving or widening their abilities with hybrid picking. Where I find most educational material either too dense or too dry, Gustavo has (as always) found the perfect way to present both a clear methodology and a fountain of musically interesting examples and etudes." -PLINI"--These expertly constructed exercises invite you to a contemporary world of structured tonalities, through which you are able to progress and transcend style." - VARDAN OVSEPIAN"-- Gustavo's creative, angular etudes will challenge your mind and your hands in equal measure; attempt to learn them and you'll have your work cut out for you!" - PER NILSSON (Meshuggah, Scar Symmetry)--"Get ready for Gustavo Assis-Brasil's newest and most challenging book on studies using the Hybrid Picking technique. "Advanced Hybrid Picking Etudes" presents valuable studies that will take you to the next level. The material is the most comprehensive ever made on the subject and has detailed applications of all your movements. I highly recommend it." - ISAAC NEGRENE--"In this new book, Gustavo Assis-Brasil presents a lot of material for exploring the mechanics of the guitar musically with the hybrid picking technique and also permutations for the left hand. A progressive approach is presented throughout the course, from preliminary etudes in the beginning, to full-fledged compositions. The pieces also have a sort of algorithmic approach in the transformation of raw permutations into real music. An outstanding resource for music and guitar." - DR. JULIO HERRLEIN

Hybrid Picking is a complete guide to mastering this much coveted technique. Consisting 8 chapters and over 50 musical examples, this book demonstrates how to bring fluidity and flare to your playing where standard pick technique alone, can often fall short. Covering all aspects of the method, 'Hybrid Picking' is a must for all experienced and non-experienced players alike. All of the musical examples are demonstrated by Wyn Pearson on the accompanying online video at slow and fast tempos. ArpeggiosLeaping across stringsHybrid picking chordsChicken Pickin'Runs in consecutive intervalsThe online video concludes with a blazing demonstration by the author, which has been fully notated! Standard notation and TAB. Includes access to online video

"Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural, rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritiousa story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new, plant breeding has always had a political dimension."--Publisher's description.

(Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.

Jimmy Bruno is known throughout the world for his flawless picking technique. This book and online video breaks down Bruno's ideas through exercises and etudes that will take any guitarist's picking technique to a new level. Break old picking habits and learn a more efficient way to utilize your right-hand technique. The 45-minute online video presents Jimmy teaching and demonstrating the material in the book. Presented in standard notation and tab. Includes access to online video

'A deft, satisfying and poignant collection of stories . . . I loved it.' PANDORA SYKES 'Huma Qureshi is a writer I know I'll be reading for years and years and years' Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn't understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer make sense to each other away from home. Set across the blossoming English countryside, the stifling Mediterranean, and the bustling cities of London and Lahore, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love illuminates the parts of ourselves we rarely reveal. *Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize* 'These are stories of fierce clarity and tenderness - I loved them' LUCY CALDWELL, author of Intimacies 'Qureshi writes with courage' Ingrid Persaud, author of Love After Love

Master shredder Dave Martone brings exciting heavy metal shred guitar techniques to the blues in this book and DVD. Tap into the soulful, emotion-filled heart of the blues while you put the pedal to the metal and SHRED! Dave covers all of the most important techniques, including sweep picking, tapping, hybrid picking, and string skipping, and provides lots of fun licks to play in standard music notation and TAB. Easy-to-read neck diagrams make learning chords, scales, and arpeggios effortless. The included DVD is hosted by Dave and features his unique, entertaining, and clear approach to expressing technical and musical ideas. Shredding the Blues is a must have for any serious shredder and will lead you to shredding the blues in a way that will impress musicians and audiences alike.

Economy Picking Guitar Technique is a complete roadmap of methodical steps that will make you the perfect picker, from zero to hero.

Tim Miller's 2-1-2 Arpeggio Technique is an innovative method designed to give guitarists a creative and ergonomic way to easily and instinctively invent arpeggios for improvisation and composition. Includes step by step tutorial and hundreds of arpeggio examples for the most common scales used in contemporary music.