Electric Guitar Picking Techniques 101
I’ve had several emails to Guitar Tutorials Now over the last month asking ” How much strength or force should I put on a pick for an electric guitar? “.
Well first let’s clear things up. You don’t put the force on the pick really, but rather the force is on the guitar strings. From my experience many electric guitar tutorials never mention the force applied to the string, and I think this is quite an important factor when it comes to your guitar playing.
The trick is to put less pressure on the strings, the faster you want to play. If you’re playing a slow Blues solo, you could put your usual amount of force on the string, but when it comes to some faster Metal alternate picking or hybrid picking licks, you would not apply AS much force.
The theory is simple really. Too much force causes you to dig your pick deep past the guitar string, and in doing so, would require you to apply more strength to get your pick past the string and onto the next one.
For faster picking, you’d only want to be applying about 2 mm of your pick ( at most ) to the string, and no more.
Try this technique and you’ll be taking your electric guitar lead playing past the speed limit in no time 
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