Download or read book Killer Technique: Flatpicking Guitar written by Colin Botts and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killer Technique: Flatpicking Guitar is designed to serve as a valuable resourceto guitarists of all ability levels interested in developing greater finger dexterity and picking accuracy. A variety of exercises are presented that enable guitarists toisolate and drill many of the technical requirements and stylistic elementscommonly encountered in flatpicking guitar. Topics covered by this book include left-hand chromatic exercises, horizontal shifting up the neck, scalar sequences, alternate picking, economy picking, and cross picking. Most importantly, many ofthe techniques presented within the book are applied to musical etudes and examples that are both challenging and rewarding to play