If you do, make sure you go through the picking speed and endurance workouts. I am a firm believer that your picking technique should remain the same no matter what speed you are playing. With the exception of bending and vibrato notes which would be heavily accented. Maniacal , Jun 8, Messages: Likes Received: 8. Pebber Brown's an interesting character, but I think he's full of crap when it comes to what he calls 'Sarod' picking Sarod players do not use the technique he demonstrates.
I saw him claim it's what John McLaughlin uses, but a cursory look at any video of John playing shows that's not true. I haven't watched as much Buckethead, but I don't think he does it, either--if I recall correctly, his picking mechanic is very similar to Paul Gilbert's, which is wrist and forearm. Messages: 1, Likes Received: I've stopped anchoring, and by that I mean my pinky isn't anchored near the bottom of the pickups nor does my palm even rest on the bridge.
I feel like I get a lot more freedom to move my hand about even though I'm obviously trying to use as little motion as possible in my picking hand. To stop anchoring completely, it really helps to have a guitar with a forearm contour, I can't imagine being to comfortable on something like a traditional Tele where the body will cut into your arm. As for the actual picking, I try to keep it economical for the most part. I've seen Brown's vids on scalpel picking and ain't buying it.
Thanks for the advice guys. I honestly felt that sarod picking was putting a little too much stress on my thumb joint; the thing just never felt natural to me. And yes, I noticed Pebber's technique when he starts going faster actually reverts back to picking from the wrist, much like Petrucci or Di Meola. Yngwie Malmsteen's picking technique actually resembles the supposed sarod picking a lot more, but he combines it with forearm and his wrist movements.
Hell, Rusty Cooley is crazy fast, and he looks like he's picking with his forearm most of the time. All in all I think I only had lessons for about one year in total. I have now been playing for 7. It has always felt, and will most likely continue to be, a deeply personal kind of freedom for me.
People have always teased me and taunted me and even bullied me because I'm different, being the last person picked in groups and even being doggedly ignored when many people were forming them is nothing new to me.
Because of this I withdrew from a lot of social scenarios because of what I can only describe as a pure sense of dissappointment in the poeple I was presented with more often than not. In music, there is the inherent ability to take any feeling that I possess and give it a tangable force to be heard; sometimes that message has to be shouted, and sometimes it has to be whispered.
Regardless of how we choose to write our music, what cannot be ignored is the fact that it will always have our own personal stamp, an unconcious mark to say that this was what we created, and that can now be heard virtually anywhere on the planet. Whatever the words may be, through music we can speak them more articulately than any world leader, more inspiringly than any artist, and give it the sheer presence and lasting impact of the legends that inspired us to first pick up our instruments.
We are the ones who create the backdrop to people's childhoods, from games to films to concerts and to lullabyes. We are an undeniable voice that can literally change people's lives for the better if we make good use of what we can do. After having mastered robot tapping the night before, you decide to show off your ability in the sonic arts, only to drop your pick as you go to start what was intended to be a 5-second tapping display.
It can turn to a nightmare as you try in vain to tap your way through what is typically your longest solo of the night, trying to catch the eye of a roadie or the singer who's currently head banging at the other side of the stage, and signal to them using some form of exaggerated mouth movements to come and give you a pick. Then comes the difficulty of finding the! So, what's the solution? When I cared, my reference for fast picking was Yngwie.
Even numbers of notes per string prevents outside picking. Last edited: Mar 21, Messages 3, My grip goes to infinity. I think I used three different approaches in this vid. Member Messages 6, Troy Grady does a great job with this documentary.
He has additional picking videos he has put on his channel since this series. Pebber Brown's methods. He has additional videos on picking too. Chicken Picking. Jeff Stocks said:. I posted an example in Ieso's thread on his book. I get around ok in spite of my right hand. It's a project. JonR Member. Messages 15,
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