QUOTE (Todd Simpson @ Nov 6 2016, 11:02 PM)
I notice that you are using ECONOMIC PICKING (Two Down Strokes in a row) when ascending from the B to E strings. WELL DONE! That is really the secret sauce to this type of lick IMHO.
Credit where credit is due, but not in this case. I was actually strictly alternate picking as proposed in the lessons so far. I guess it seems like economic picking because the audio is apparently not perfectly aligned to the video.
Btw: I read your pick discussion with Grappa the other day and when I bought some new strings some days ago, I saw a bucket of Dava picks at the store. I just bought one (the hardest of the Jazz III types) and so far I'm very happy with it. The best pick I've had so far because I have a very firm grip on them all the time. Thank you for sharing those
Now about lesson 6: I had a quick try yesterday and I'm already running into problems concerning the pinky. When starting the pattern at the 11th fret, I cannot place the pinky on the 16th fret in a comfortable way. Either I use your hand position (which I call the bluesy position), then I can
just reach the fret but my first finger will also move in the process (even just a little but enough to take the sustain from the pedal note). Or I use the classical hand position where I have a lot more stretch but on the other hand, being on the higher frets, my pinky now naturally rolls to the side and I hit the fretboard with the lower part of the pinky before I can set the tip onto the target string. Personally I would just play the B on the B string instead of using the pinky here but maybe that's the point of the lesson?
I think it's not a general hand/pinky stretch issue because I can fret a perfect 4th at the 5th fret quite easily (comes from playing 9th chords on the bass I guess
). It only becomes a problem in the lesson's fretboard area because it's in the transition between classical and bluesy hand positions.
So my question really is, do you require playing exactly there on the fretboard or can I also play it at the 5th fret, for example? (Or even just with the string transition at the 11th fret). I will have to find a solution for this somehow but I'm not sure whether this is part of the lesson now or if it's enough to just practice that pedal note rhythm.
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