{"id":729,"date":"2025-07-07T18:51:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T18:53:15","slug":"alternate-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/alternate-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video (made a few years ago) Jack demonstrates what we mean by &#8220;alternate picking&#8221;. This is a useful skill to learn if you plan on doing some lead guitar playing. &#8220;Alternate&#8221; picking refers to alternating between down and up strokes. This technique is very useful when you need to do some fast picking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/736593070?h=9ab0fca149\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"    allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video (made a few years ago) Jack demonstrates what we mean by &#8220;alternate picking&#8221;. This is a useful skill to learn if you plan on doing some lead guitar playing. &#8220;Alternate&#8221; picking refers to alternating between down and up strokes. This technique is very useful when you need to do some fast picking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muzictrain.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}