Picking Booster
Build picking speed with warm-ups and metronome work
Picking Booster is an online guitar picking course taught by Steve Stine. It covers warm-ups, strength and stamina, finger combinations, legato and economy picking, and structured metronome work. Later lessons cover phrase fragments, bursting, building speed and speed concepts for improvisation. The course has 27 video lessons, about 2.5 hours in total, and a 34-page PDF book.
What Picking Booster is about
Steve breaks every skill into simple steps you can follow. In these videos, he introduces the course and takes you through his picking warm-up.
Course intro: Introduction · 1:02
Free preview lesson: Warming Up · 4:16
Is Picking Booster right for you?
- Players whose picking feels slow or sloppy. Fundamental exercises, warm-ups and strength and stamina lessons cover the basics.
- Guitarists stuck at one tempo. Lessons on optimal vs. elevated speed and bursting focus on building speed.
- Soloists who want speed in real playing. The course ends with a pentatonic example and speed concepts for improvisation.
Skills you'll walk away with
- Set up your gear and sound
- Warm up and build strength and stamina
- Play finger combinations, two-string patterns and position shifts
- Combine picking with legato and use economy picking
- Practice with a metronome using structured exercises
- Build speed with phrase fragments and bursting
- Combine horizontal and vertical movement on the neck
- Use speed ideas in improvisation
What the course covers
The full lesson list is below.
Picking speed and accuracy, step by step
What to know before you start, the 4 S's of speed picking, how to practice, gear setup, warm-ups, fundamental exercises, strength and stamina, finger combinations, two-string patterns and shifting positions. Then legato and economy picking, metronome exercises, phrase fragments, optimal vs. elevated speed, bursting, a pentatonic example, horizontal and vertical movement, and speed concepts for improvisation.
Learn at your own pace
Clear video lessons
Every move is shown up close. Pause, rewind and repeat each lesson as often as you need.
Practice materials
Includes 34-page PDF book. Use them to practice what you learn in each lesson.
Yours for life
Pay once and come back any time, on your computer, tablet or phone. No subscription.
Steve Stine
Steve has taught guitar for more than 30 years and has helped millions of players in over 100 countries. He has a Music Education degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead and taught guitar at North Dakota State University. He's known for breaking hard things into simple steps you can follow. Read Steve's full story
What students say about Steve's teaching
Excellent · 4.8 out of 5 on TrustpilotRead our reviews"Steve Stine is the teacher that I have been looking for a long time."
Jimmy H.United States
"I discovered your courses. I find them great. It's a complete guitar journey and I learned something every week."
Philip M.United States
"It made the fretboard much, much simpler and easier to understand than I have imagined it to be."
Geoffrey E.United Kingdom
"I'm amazed with just how much improvement I've seen in my own guitar playing."
Don B.United States
"What I'd really say is definitely take Steve Stine's course. I think you would find it really, really beneficial."
Demetrio G.Canada
"One major problem that I had was just being lost. Steve helped me find the way."
Jared H.United States
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Where to go after Picking Booster
Warm Up Routine
Stretching, pre-practice and legato warm-ups, plus 18 down and alternate picking exercises and G major scale picking.
Ultimate Practice Routine
A practice plan in four paths: core technique, learning from songs, fretboard and theory awareness, and creativity.
Rock Licks
Six rock style studies, from 80s rock to slow blues, each with a rhythm part and a full solo lesson.
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