Pick Scrape - Guitar Trick

The Pick Scrape is a must-know trick; when used with taste, it will make your playing more alive and cool. Besides this, it is fairly easy to perform and you'll be able to enjoy this hack even if you're a complete beginner.

Performance:

1. Position your fretting hand for the chord you'll be playing right after the Scrape.
2. Slide the side of the plectrum along the lower strings, from the area around the pickups towards the headstock.

   

3. Pull the plectrum off the strings in a way that will make the chord ring.

This trick usually fits well at transitions from one part of a song to another (for example, from a verse to a chorus).

Listen to the song 'Neptune' by InMe at 2:37:

As well as in repetitions of a riff, right before a repetition.

In the video below, I added the pick scrape to Riff #1 from the 'Alt-Rock and Metal Riffs for Beginners' lesson:

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