Since I am 60 years old, I might have this down for my 80th. Greg, you have so much skill on the guitar, but your imagination and sense of humor really set you apart.

4:02 "Between the Thud and the Pop, the Chicken takes flight''! Thanks for this, you made me a better player Greg!

Greg Koch is a monster player, but his humour tops it all 🙏

This style of guitar playing is so uncommon on my country that this tutorial is more than welcome. Also Greg is a total hero. Great material, guys, thank you for this!

Saw this guy live in Phoenix at the rhythm room. Incredibly inspiring.

Now that's a lesson I can dig into. The fact you acknowledge it takes pain, time, and practice is what I need to be reminded of. Thanks. ✌

Greg I've watched you for years but this is the absolute best tutorial on chicky picky I've seen. Bravo sir!

I had a book that had Travis picking licks that I learned when I first started playing guitar and I got so good at them that I could play it really fast really naturally. All of my shredder friends were always way more impressed by my Travis picking stuff than the shred stuff lol

Greg Koch is so evolved its just unbelievable! Saw him this week at Fanatics pub. The ticket was $25 bucks and was one of the best shows I ever saw! What a value! The man is a wizard!

A million years ago I had an old railroad track blues book I read through,Always used the pick and fingers since.And like Greg,I also use my right hand for other things(2 handed hammer-ons ala Steve lynch from Autograph) So fingernails on any of my R.H. fingers are a nope. Great lesson!

Two excellent tutorials from the vastly underrated Greg Koch, whose wit is almost as fast as his fingers when he's in hyper-speed mode!

Greg, you are A GREAT player, an awesome teacher and a real ENTERTAINER. Respect!!

man, ive been playin 55 yrs and this is the first time to see this explained

Black Chicken is so underrated.

Just discovered your channel - My life has been made so much better with the detail on Chicken Picking - I can't thank you enough.

What a legend - excellent explanation!

Thank you, Greg! I've been working on this for years (now a big part of my style) and really enjoyed your take and insight. Your humour is also much appreciated. I'll be watching this a few times, methinks.

Lucky to see him at a music store in Brookfield Ct( Rt 7) years back. Funny and a great player! He was a Fender associate.

what an amazing teacher ..dumbs it down for mere mortals like me . thk you

I absoulutly loved the way you broke down these techniques !

Great presentation and playing. These styles lie outside my interests, but who doesn't enjoy the sound of a snapping Telecaster driven by talent?

This lesson is worth its weight in gold

Really well explained and demonstrated, thanks! And that's a fantastic sounding Tele btw

I’ve been tryin to figure this out for a couple years now. Lot of good info here

11:53 knocked me out cold Great lesson, Greg. Thanks!

Good evening sir, Greetings from Nepal!!!! Best ever channel!!

I bought a Koch SRV blues DVD about 20 years ago, had no idea who he was, so nice to have new cool stuff streaming here.

Greg is THE man. If you ever get a chance to see him live, do yourself a favor and GO!!!

Thanks a mill Greg!! GREAT stuff !

1:50 I have some of Greg's lessons. I've been playing for a long-time, including finger-picking, but the hybrid pick & finger technique took a long time. For weeks -- weeks! -- there was no progress, and then, at last, incremental gains... I'm nowhere near the Mansquatch but I'm way better, after about a year. It can be done! The chicken will take flight!

Superb tutorial

This is awesome sir!

FANTASTIC Tutorial Greg. Although I am 65 years old, and I am just starting out on my guitar journey (Never too old to learn is my motto) Country is my thing and getting that good old boy's sound is what I am looking for. Thank you so much for making this method easy for us oldies to understand 👍. Now it's time to get down to some hard practicing. Good news is, I have plenty of spare time on my hands 👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

Oh, my God, finally a great teacher. Who knows what slow means. He broke it down at a pace that so many out there don’t do. It’s almost like they want you to know, but they don’t really want you to know? Thank you so much, Mr. Koch not only for your mastery but for just who you are. This is one style that has eluded me for a very many years. God bless.🙏

Thanks for this informative video!!!

Its fun to noodle and or chicken pickin! Its nice to see Reverend changed the headstock design lime on this guitar, nice improvement. Thanks for the demo!

Amazing player/teacher

Definitely appreciate the lesson!

Muito Obrigado pela video aula! Excellent material!!

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Excellent tutorial that I will be watching again for practicing. I saw your demos for Wildwood, and it helped to sway me into buying a Custom Martin from them.

Heck of a teacher. You earned my sub!

Love the tutorial!!

this is incredible

Great tutorial 😎

10:40 "black chicken" haha! This is great info, Greg. Thanks!

Great lesson Greg :)

Thanks for that great simple but thorough breakdown of the two techniques. Now, that knowledge and just 1000 hours of practice and it should sound great! LOL

Super lesson

I don't know if this will be helpful for anyone else, but I'll share anyway... I was able to do hybrid picking right away, the first time I tried it in fact, but only with my middle finger and the pick. It has been a slow progression adding the ring finger. Part of that is because when I played acoustic without a pick, I used my thumb, index and middle. Again, it was just natural and one day it hit me... I started out as a bass player and I played with my fingers and learned slap bass. The way I slap is more of a Stanley Clarke/Victor Wooten kind of slap rather than a Louis Johnson/Flea kind of slap. What I mean by this is my hand looks more like a fist than a hitchhiker with the thumb extended and the thumb slap is more like a pick than a hammer slapping the string directly down onto the fretboard. The combination of fingerpicking with just the index and middle and this claw like technique of slap and pop for years before I played guitar made it a really natural transition. "Good for you, but how does that help me?" Well, it makes sense that the dexterity is all related, so if you're trying to work on hybrid picking, practice fingerpicking like a bass player plays. Index and middle, thumb anchored on a pickup, alternate steady 8th or 16th notes. Adding the ring finger to hybrid picking took much longer, because it didn't have the dexterity and strength that my index and middle had. So the first thing I did was just use the ring in conjunction with the middle, plucking at the same time. Your fingers are kinda preprogrammed to work together, so it's very natural. And your hand is naturally preprogrammed to work from the pinky to the thumb in order to grasp objects. It's very natural and flowing to drum your fingers from your pinky to your index versus from index to pinky. So work on picking ring-middle-index first, 321 321 321, and then work on reversing it, 123 123 123. I've found that a lot of banjo playing is based around that 123 sequence rather than 321, so learning banjo has been much harder. Your mileage may vary, but it has worked for me even though I didn't realize why at first. I think we all pay far more attention to our fret hand technique than we do our pick hand technique, even without any fingerpicking involved. Once we get our right hand going when we're first learning to play, it kinda goes on autopilot while we work on chords, scales and arpeggios. It's not until something isn't working that we have to refocus on that pick hand.

A real boss and great personality

If you started learning guitar within the last few years, you don't know how good you have it! Greg makes the technique clear as day. Excellent teacher. A couple of decades ago, it was very hard to find material to learn country pickin. Once you found a book or video, you then had to pay $20-30 for it or try to figure this stuff out by ear, which isn't easy to do. Fortunately for me, being a proficient bassist first, all the right hand coordination was already in place, and pickin came natural to me. I watched much more accomplished guitarists struggle to figure it out, and I would never demonstrate the technique at slow tempos like Greg did here. I guess there are no more guitar secrets in the world =)

Awesome X 10 Thanks!!

When the “goofing off” far exceeds the talents of most guitar heros, you know you're dealing with a real master of the craft.

Awesome rehash of the previous cluckin f….n. We get a little more each time. Thank you sir.

very best of Best first class.thanks

I've never much liked country music, but now that I have a tele... here I am!

alway enjoy the flick tyvm

very important guitarist unbelievable

Best player on the planet.

Those who played some " pulgar flamenco " or double thumb on bass may skip some of the pain. I love CPicking. Lovely tutorial, ❤ Rome Italy

Love that shirt

Greg talks about being really into Albert Lee, so I have to tell this story even if no one reads this crap. I got pulled over doing 75 in a 55 in north Idaho, I was listening to Albert Lees Fun Ranch Boogie (which is an absolute smoking tune) and the county cop ask me where I’m going in such a hurry. I told him I was a guitar player, and he says “so?”, and I say “well, I was just listening to this song” and I pointed out the audio, he said again “So?” And I said “no, listen” and I reached over and cranked it up right as Albert hit one of the blazing down fret runs. The cop actually listened for a minut, then he just started laughing and said “all right then, get outta here and slow it down” shaking his head as he walked back to his cruiser. So, Albert saved me a $200 speeding ticket!

Greg K. is wild.

Awesome X 10

He’s so right, after only playing dobro and banjo (got into a Americana band) for 4-5 years now, I started learning country and almost immediately gave it up. It’s very discomforting in the beginning. However, I feel like I play all my leads (any genre) better now being 🤘I did have to go with using a thumb pick since I have to play dobro still (bluegrass) and chick’n pick’n

great

“There’s gonna be pain involved!” I grabbed another 3 minute chicken pikkin videos of his yesterday, should have trimmed my nails first. Ripped the middle finger nail off in about 5 minutes, then proceeded to peel skin off the end of that finger, now I’m working on the ring and index fingers so I least I’ll be versatile when I heal! (But, I got the feel for it….now we just gotta fertilize!) Good freakin lesson, right here! And the chicken takes flight!! Edit.. also have to comment re: balancing the volume of the “pick and the pop”. My best practice it to turn it the hell up and get in front of the amp, immediately forces me to lighten my touch, which I’ve found really helps me control nuance much more easily.

Im a pretty fair picker but this gives me a lot to work with. Much appreciated.

Kudos to Greg for "Don't speed it up until you have it right slow". I often tell my students "I don't care how fast you can play it wrong", so Greg's suggestion is music to my ears. Don't try to do it fast and then clean it up later because you'll be training yourself to do it sloppy and it will be hard to unlearn (because the sloppiness was caused by needing to take short-cuts). Do it as slowly as you need to get it accurate and to start developing the correct muscle movements from the start. Then, as the muscle memory takes hold, you can gradually speed it up. Test yourself to see how fast you can go before you start noticing mistakes, and then probably practice at about 90-95% of that tempo.

Greg...🙏🎼🎸

Hey man thanks for the opening honesty.

"The chicken takes flight" 😂

Great, Reverend makes a near proper Tele, after I've given on trying to make that Buckshot work. They are probably the best made guitars out there today. Their necks are so damn consistent, it's unbelievable. guess , I'm going to be getting another Reverend then.

My first finger is on the G string and my thumb is on the G string. I hear ya brotha!

probably the most intelligent guitar player out there!

Do they make this tele's with out that Ash Tray bridge ?

as a side note, greg has a fantastic voice for radio...and a face, too😆j/k

What I’d give to be able to study with you for a month

Does a compressor help? Thank you I would pay to see his stand up comedy

You, Sir, are a master chickenpickologist. I don't use a pick, and I don't use nails since I'm a therapist. So I play with the pads of my fingers. I've got lots of practice to do, but this was great for teaching the basics. Shouldn't you be able to use any finger to replace the thumb? Maybe we can have a flock of chickens?

Such massive Kochery.......

Wow........wow.......(mind blown)....

A true freak. So good it's just silly.

Hej ! Finns det tabulatur/noter på detta?

How do we thank this guy? $100./hour lesson here.

damn...I'm going to sell my guitars! Amazing!

Sound da like Black Magic from crossroads

That's what I say, "something like that " lol. Chicken picking is cool.

What sucks is figuring it out, you find Greg is holding his pick the whole time!!?

What came first? The Chicken or the Pickin???

with regard to travis picking pain: if you can endure the left hand, you can endure the left!!!

Less chicken and more picking!

ah the travis thing calls johnny cash to come and vocalize... and its almost like a latin beat I guess a little

30 seconds in and the realization occurs that I can not play the guitar.

That, my good man, ain't chicken pickin. That there's high-falutin' finger flippin. 🤨 Jk... awesome as usual! Great explanation 🤙🏼

Black chicken 😂 Yes

Just got into this, half the battle is having the twangiest Tele possible

Only a guitarist can talk about "hitting the g string" whilst caressing a 3 foot piece of lumber.

i love black chicken