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Economy Picking – Student Spotlight – Vijay
In this Student Spotlight lesson, I will help Vijay overcome some of his difficulties with economy picking.
Economy picking can be looked at as a combination of alternate picking and sweep picking. The two very different feels those techniques have can make economy picking feel very awkward.
In this lesson I will demonstrate to Vijay some ways of approaching economy picking that will make it much easier. The most important concept here is the use of the thumb and pick in the picking motion. That will of course require Vijay to hold the pick in a more traditional way (using his index finger and thumb), so that he can have more control over the picking.
Then, when crossing strings, he can use a very small circular motion of the pick created with the index finger and thumb to help facilitatate the string crossing. You will see that this is usually a major component of great economy picker's playing. They seem to do most of the picking motion from the thumb and index finger when doing the small sweep across strings instead of the wrist or forearm.
A lot of these players did it intuitively by paying close attention to what the pick felt like while crossing strings. However, after you are aware of the technique, hopefully you will be able to incorporate it to help your own playing as well.
Good luck Vijay!
If you would like to submit a video question for this YouTube series, please do so on the Student Spotlight page.
Thanks! Carl...
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What do I need to learn?
I’m a beginner. I’ve been playing for about 4 days. I’ve spend about 8 hours on the guitar. I also played the piano for around a year.
I don’t know where to start. I know all the notes on the fretboard (thanks to the piano) but I don’t know what I should be doing now. Do I learn chords? Scales? Finger exercises? I want to learn the most important things which are the basics but there’s so much to learn.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Picking Across Strings – Student Spotlight – Nolan
In this Student Spotlight lesson, I will help Nolan correct some issues he is having doing a rapid alternate picking lick across strings.
There are a few issues that I will cover in the video, including planting and how to keep the angle of your picking consistent across strings.
In his playing example, you can see that Nolan has a good pick angle when he starts out on the high E string. However, as he descends across the scale, he deviates his wrist as he moves towards the low E string. This not only creates unnecessary tension in his wrist, but it also changes the picking angle to almost parallel to the strings by the end of the scale run.
This means the resistance that each string gives against the pick is changing for every string. If he can keep that angle consistent, the string attack and resistance will feel the same for every string.
This is accomplished with a very small amount of movement from the elbow. Keep in mind that actual pick stroke itself should come from the wrist and forearm. The elbow only helps controls which string you are playing on.
I hope this helps Nolan! Carl...
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is learning through songs alone a good way to go?
i was taking online classes with a structured approach but i didnt found the process interesting enough. that led to me not playing consistently enough, now i have switched to learning songs directly and im finding it way more interesting and also playing consistently though its stiill new days. should i continue with and if yes, and tips? plus any good resource to learn songs on, that is easy to understand as a beginner who doesnt know scales etc
( i have been playing in total for a few months))
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Minor barre chord shape
I am playing guitar for 10 months now an after 5-th month I can ring out the major barre chords. However even now I have to push very hard to ring the 3 string. The shape I am talking about where the root note is in the 6th string. I noticed that when I move my finger a bit higher it rings with very little strength. But then the first string doesn't ring out because that part of my finger is soft. It seems like the problem is the part correspond to the bottom two string in my finger is too hard and thick that blocks upper part to press to the 3rd string. Since I played mostly major chord because they were a bit easier at the beginning my middle finger pressing to the 3rd string all the time, and the part corresponds to in my barre finger didn't harden. I have no idea how I can get that part harder right now. I have tried find answers from videos but they didn't help.
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Sunday, May 10, 2020
Beginner Learning
I’m a beginner guitarists with no real instruction apart from talking to some people about proper hand structure and some technique. Can i improve to a semi-decent level without instruction? Teacher? Talking to an experienced player?
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Dyers Eve Guitar Lesson – Metallica
In this Dyers Eve guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play all of this mammoth metal classic by Metallica, note-for-note!
The tuning is standard tuning.
Boy do you have your work cut out for you today! Dyers Eve is one of the most epic songs Metallica ever wrote and it is filled with many complex and challenging guitar riffs.
I will cover each riff in the order that each appears of the original recording, including any variations that occur over the course of the song.
Of course, the main riff is the controversial one here, and I will make my case for why I believe on the AJFA version of the song, they played 2-3-2-3-2-3 instead of 2-2-2-2-2-2 and I will let you listen to an audio clip of the track slowed down to 30% of the original speed so that you can clearly hear that the riff is played that way.
But like I mention in the video, it doesn't really matter if you play it 2-2-2-2-2-2. Metallica plays it that way live and on the original demo of "Dyers Eve", and it sounds great either way. Of course, it is much easier playing it all 2's. 🙂
I will also cover Kirk Hammett's solo note-for-note. This is one of Kirk's finer moments with tons of hyper-speed licks and cool melodic themes throughout.
So have fun tackling this monster! It was a lot of work to put together, but hopefully you guys will enjoy the challenge!
Carl...
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