Is picking harder than strumming?
Summary. Strumming is easier than fingerpicking or using a guitar pick, (at least initially) but both methods have their own difficulties that you have to figure out.
How do you switch between strumming and picking?
Re: Switching between strumming and picking
- Identify the part that is giving you trouble. (And remember that practice is problem-solving. ...
- Make a little exercise that targets the troublesome technique.
- Play the exercise with a metronome. ...
- Start SLOW.
- Speed up the metronome a little bit at a time.