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Post by mattjem7vwh on Apr 24, 2007 3:50:37 GMT -5
wow dude, you're the answer to my prayers. I finally got it, I'd been working my wrist picking to death and couldn't get how people got it so fast. I had been doing what you described as actual full wrist movement. After doing what you said for a day, I'm getting so much faster and cleaner. I've never seen any type of right hand picking lesson and this helped me a ton. A million thanks haha, sometimes i wish I could be there with a guitar in my hands. It gets so frustrating sometimes trying to explain the finer points of guitar in text. and they make such a big difference. now stop reading my garbage filled rants and practice little grasshopper!
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Post by Tungus on Apr 26, 2007 20:52:17 GMT -5
Matt has his shit together......... love that last line!!!!
"now stop reading my garbage filled rants and practice little grasshopper"!
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Post by pcsmall on Apr 26, 2007 22:17:28 GMT -5
Incidently matt, is the type of picking you described with the thumb joint what people refer to as "circular picking?" yeah basically circle picking with a matt vibe to it I didnt want to call it circle picking because you may have looked it up on the net and got some contrasting information.. I wanted you to try it the way I described it first as I thought this would be the clincher for your problem. also, with your right hand resting too hard on the strings problem... check out one of the archive lessons on effective palm muting... get this technique down and comfortable as you may find you need to use pinkys etc as anchor points on the guitar, which will affect the position of your picking hand. yeah just a couple months ago i had to ween myself from using the heel of my hand as an anchor point on the bridge and switch to using my pinky as the anchor. then i just recently started getting myself playing without an anchor point (well, i still pinky anchor for sweeps, that's about it). It's amazing how much better i play and the stuff i play sounds since i've switched to that (thanks to Arisen for bustin my balls about playing with anchor points a few months ago).
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Post by mattjem7vwh on Apr 27, 2007 2:47:11 GMT -5
Matt has his shit together......... love that last line!!!! "now stop reading my garbage filled rants and practice little grasshopper"! not bad for a youngun hehe..
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Post by falc on May 7, 2007 7:40:08 GMT -5
About resting the palm/hand etc against the guitar, I do that alot and am working on trying to do it as little as possible, but I tend to rest my arm against the top of the guitarbody, is this a nono aswell?
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Post by pcsmall on May 7, 2007 10:44:59 GMT -5
most everybody i know of does that as well to keep the guitar in place. not everybody has perfect technique...i just try to do what's comfortable to me and helps me play faster \m/
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Post by jazziiiguy on May 7, 2007 20:11:58 GMT -5
I play with my pinky anchored. Personally I don't really think it matters. I mean, Yngwie plays a lot with his pick hand anchored, so does Micheal Angelo Batio (uses his middle and ring fingers). I don't think anybody's gonna tell them about playing faster
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Post by mattjem7vwh on May 8, 2007 2:11:50 GMT -5
yeah theres no real dramas with anchoring any part of your hand or arm. I use the underside of my forearm to hold the guitar in one place, but this has a lot to do with the position of the guitar,
a young guy asked me why he couldnt sweep properly, so I got him to show me his technique and he lowered my guitar to his knees!!!
i informed him that for sick sweeps the guitar should be worn like a bowtie and not a set of kneepads.
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Post by jazziiiguy on May 8, 2007 2:33:30 GMT -5
Yeah, a friend of mine plays with his guitat extremely low. Luckily for him, he's a punker, not a shredder.
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Post by Tungus on May 11, 2007 20:18:07 GMT -5
I play with my pinky anchored. Personally I don't really think it matters. I mean, Yngwie plays a lot with his pick hand anchored, so does Micheal Angelo Batio (uses his middle and ring fingers). I don't think anybody's gonna tell them about playing faster I anchor my pinky too. The only reason I can figure that I do, was to break myself from elbow picking. It just started feeling natural to me. My new pickguard on bitch is all fucked up from my nails rubbing on it. The only time I dont anchor is playin heavy rythme (ala palm muting and flashy shit I cant pull off without looking like a tool).
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Post by Tungus on May 11, 2007 20:27:13 GMT -5
About resting the palm/hand etc against the guitar, I do that alot and am working on trying to do it as little as possible, but I tend to rest my arm against the top of the guitarbody, is this a nono aswell? Noone can tell you how to play. If it feels natural............ go with it. Certain things you must not do. Like play tense, and play through pain. Like my above post....... elbow picking is bad, but it wont kill you.
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Post by jazziiiguy on May 11, 2007 21:10:25 GMT -5
Won't kill you, but it can screw up your elbow if you do it all the time. I picked from the elbow for the first three years or so, and now when I play for an hour straight, my elbow pops when I straighten it, and sometimes I have to bend and straighten it a few times before it'll feel normal.
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Post by schweinhund on May 12, 2007 11:41:47 GMT -5
About resting the palm/hand etc against the guitar, I do that alot and am working on trying to do it as little as possible, but I tend to rest my arm against the top of the guitarbody, is this a nono aswell? Noone can tell you how to play. If it feels natural............ go with it. Certain things you must not do. Like play tense, and play through pain. Like my above post....... elbow picking is bad, but it wont kill you. Yeah it will. Elbow picking has been scientificly proven to cause spontanious combustion..
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Post by pcsmall on May 12, 2007 21:34:17 GMT -5
Yeah it will. Elbow picking has been scientificly proven to cause spontanious combustion.. that's only what they want you to think. really what it is is chuck norris roundhouse kicking the elbow-picker so hard that it causes his body's atoms to split, causing a small nuclear explosion. that is spontaneous combustion, isn't it?
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Post by schweinhund on May 14, 2007 15:11:37 GMT -5
It's more like when you burn and the fire comes from within you. Your own body sets it self on fire. Kinda urba-legend thing.. But of course Chuck can do that to anyone by snapping his fingers
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