david6strings on "alternate vs economy...again"
i'm strictly alternate picking player. 1 thing i do is play without thinking in pick motion in general ( so alternate as a result) but if i learn something new...lets say a pat martino lick, the i try...
View Articlesilverwater on "alternate vs economy...again"
Being a product of the Bill Leavitt method books, I started out learning strict alternate picking, and stayed that way for probably ten years. Then I learned how to economy pick, because I'd often...
View ArticleJorgeRubiales on "alternate vs economy...again"
silverwater, I would pick that one like this: D U U D D U U D U U (the last one may be D if I want to emphasize it specially, or if the line moves somewhere else).
View Articlepatfarlow on "alternate vs economy...again"
you need to be able to do BOTH WELL to be a well rounded picker. This is a video on legato and picking that i really likedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkeBExxPz7Y
View Articleyaclaus on "alternate vs economy...again"
I prefer alternate picking, since it forces you to think rhythmically. Off-beat equals up-stroke. If a line starts on an off-beat I would also start with up in that situation. However generally I don´t...
View Articlecruxtable on "alternate vs economy...again"
cool video. Does anyone know specifically what kind of right hand technique Mike Moreno or Lage Lund are using?
View ArticleMatt on "alternate vs economy...again"
mike appears to play mostly with economy picking. he used a lot of sweeps at tempos that would be rather impractical to play with alternate picking.
View Articlecruxtable on "alternate vs economy...again"
make sense...though I believe a lot of the fastest guitar players use only alternate picking, and the tempos aren't a problem for them.
View Articlepatfarlow on "alternate vs economy...again"
benson and django are good examples of economy picking, Chris thile only alternates. All good players
View ArticleMatt on "alternate vs economy...again"
in my experience, i spent a year trying to get perfect technique. i tried every exercise, every thing i thought would work, and i didnt make much progress. now, maybe there were flaws in my practice,...
View Articledavid6strings on "alternate vs economy...again"
yes i think matt is right. just playing music and transcribing maybe is the best and most funny thing u can do. when you can play 80 per cent of a piece and maybe a phrase just can't sound succesully...
View Articlecruxtable on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
There's a couple videos/songs now where I've heard picking of open triads in triplets, and I'm trying to figure out how to do it cleanly and quickly in the right hand. Here are the...
View Articlewilmore on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
i recently got the metheny warm up book and it has a lot of spread triad exercises. in one of them he picks down down up for all triads but all the shapes are two adjacent strings for the two down...
View Articlejorgemg1984 on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
The funny thing is Metheny says he hates his right hand technique!
View Articlecruxtable on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
that's good to know, i didn't even think of that book..maybe I should pick it up
View Articlebingefeller on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
I found an online transcription featuring some of the Metheny clinic.http://01guitar.over-blog.com/article-26275574.htmlhttp://01guitar.over-blog.com/article-26150199.htmlenjoy!
View Articlepatfarlow on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
julian lage uses these picks http://shop.bluechippick.net/products/TAD60.html
View Articlejorgemg1984 on "Pat Metheny/Julian Lage triad picking"
They HAVE to be good at that price... does anyone know what picks Lage Lund use? Sounds like Pro Plec to me.
View ArticleJPMike on "When is Kurt going to release, a dvd lesson or a book??"
The title says it all, I really want to see one of these getting released. Even if it's about technique, theory, harmony, etc.Maybe Kurt can give us some light about this.
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