Inside and Outside Picking Video

Inside and outside picking is a necessary technique for guitar players who use a pick and want to get the most out of their technique. Outside picking is the one that you are going to use most often, and it should become a big part of your playing. Any time that you want to extend alternate picking to playing between gaps of strings it is most likely going to be outside picking that you use.

The video linked in this post gives good examples of both inside and outside picking and all guitar players should make sure that they are executing these techniques correctly.

Article on Teaching Group Guitar Lessons

This is a great article on teaching group guitar lessons, which can be an important topic for a new guitar teacher who may need some advice. Group lessons are a little different than normal one on one private lessons and they offer some new types of challenges. In general, the teacher will have to have more of a plan going into the lessons, where as in private lessons the material is structured around the individual student, in group lessons you need to take all of the members of the group into account. This article shows some strategies for keeping the lessons interesting for the whole group and making sure that the different levels of players are all involved. Check it out if you are thinking about teaching a group guitar lessons in the future.