How to Use Rest Strokes to Improve your Flatpicking Technique-and Your Guitar Sound

In this lesson jazz and roots guitarist and author Greg Ruby gives an introduction to rest stroke picking-a technique that can add fullness and volume to your sound. The complete lesson features four weeks of workouts (plus a bonus exercise.) There are two ways to access the full video and musical examples: Join our community at Patreon.com/acousticguitarplus OR Buy the March/April 2023 issue at store.AcousticGuitar.com

[@stevekelly6544]

Greg knows what’s up! 💯! Good video !

[@GregRubyMusic]

Thanks Steve!!

[@AcousticGuitarMag]

TAB and notation for part 1 of this lesson are available here: acousticguitar.com/use-rest-strokes-to-improve-flatpicking-technique-and-guitar-sound/

[@EasyBreather000]

Thank you for the video here Greg. This may read as a 'pedantic' question but, what if you don't use a thumb/pick and use thumb or finger tip instead? Bests, EB

[@rishikeshpandey3495]

Hi Greg. Would you say this technique has any use on the electric guitar?
(I only saw after posting this question that this is an acoustic guitar-based channel. My apologies if this isn't the right place for this question.)

[@mbessle5102]

It's good to learn sweep picking.