Always Quote by John Petrucci

I have no formal guitar training whatsoever, so it's been fun learning sweep-picking techniques. Working on these types of licks has thrown a whole…

— Zacky Vengeance

Sweep picking is when the right hand sweeps down and up the strings in succession. But when you do sweep picking, one note rings…

— Yngwie Malmsteen

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really,…

— Carlos Santana

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

— Leon Trotsky

A technique is a trick that works.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area…

— Richard Thompson

I have some tricks in my mind and would like to first try them out in the practice sessions.

— Yuzvendra Chahal

I have no guitar technique.

— Warren Zevon

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

— Tony Gwynn

... I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do ...

— Julian Bream

I get very bored at practice because I have run curl-flat a million times, or slant-drag. There are so many parts of the game…

— Carson Palmer

It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

— B.J. Penn