Chicken picking

Chicken picking (or chicken pickin', similar to hybrid picking) is a lead guitar picking style or technique used in country, rock,and metal music where the plucked strings are pulled outward (i.e., away from the fretboard instead of parallel to the fretboard) by the fingers of the right hand and the note played immediately dampened by increasing the pressure of the left hand's finger on the fret. (Burrows 1995, p.60)

For example, the following, with a bend between the grace and last notes (ibid):

Chicken picking is also used (incorrectly) as a synonym for Travis picking and hybrid picking. Chicken picking, however, refers to this particular rhythm sequence while Travis picking is an alternating bass combined with finger picking. Hybrid picking refers only to the use of a plectrum combined with fingers as exemplified by Roy Buchanan or Danny Gatton.

Source

• Burrows, Terry (1995). Play Metal Guitar. Dorling Kindersley Limited, London. ISBN 0-7894-0190-8.
• Pearson, Wyn (2008). Hybrid Picking. Mel Bay Publications Inc. ISBN 978-078667607-1. http://www.melbay.com/product.asp?ProductID=21343DP.