Chicken Pickin' Etude: Level 3

The "Chicken Pickin' Etude: Level 3" lesson builds additional fundamental techniques of chicken picking and directly adds onto the level 1 and level 2 etude lessons. We focus on both the left and right hands.

In the left hand we outline major and minor dyads in the first inversion, a common technique/phrasing in chicken picking. In level 3 we now add in additional chromaticism as well slides and double-stops.

In the right hand we utilize hybrid picking which is covered with camera close-ups.

In this lesson we focus finalizing the stylistic technique with palm-muted dead notes and snappy hybrid picking. My basic chicken picking tone utilizes the bridge pickup on my Tele, a compressor, and slapback digital delay into a lightly overdriven Fender-style amp with a touch of spring reverb.

Key: G
Chords: G, C, D
Time Signature: 4/4
BPM: 120

Gear: Tele(bridge pickup)>Wampler Ego Compressor>Boss DSD-2>Tascam 4X4HR>Pro Tools>Amplitube 5(American Amp 1)

Scales: There are no scales used but a Major scale is implied. Consider using a G Pentatonic Major or Bluesy Pentatonic Scale (with flexible 3rd) for soloing.

G Major Pentatonic Scale


G Bluesy Pentatonic Scale