Picking Bass Notes

This guitar lesson on picking bass notes is pretty short, because I scooped one of my buddy Colin's guitars to do the lesson quick while he was out of the room! Haha. Gotta have some fun in life, right? Well, anyways, the main point of the lesson is that when you're picking,  you really need to be aware of where the bass notes are in the chords you're using. The bass notes really pull the listener along. The other notes in the chord are great, but if you don't have the root note in there, you're going to miss it.

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