Speedpicking Help |
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Speedpicking Help |
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Feb 15 2008, 10:13 PM |
Hi buddy
As I can see, you just joined, so I guess you are pretty much a beginner For speedpicking, I strongly reccomend you to run whole Kris's beginer kick-off course and then skip on his Speedpicking series There are great advices for your picking.. but to summarize it: Basicaly, the movement should go from your wrist, at higher speeds (which you SURELY wont be playing now trust me;) ) you will use your arm to get more speed, but for now, practice ASAP - As Slow As Possible, straight alternate picking using your wrist. By Alternate Picking, I mean, that you ALWAYS play down, up, down, up, down, up - even if you are changing string and you are temtped to play the next string with downstroke, play upstroke. It will feel very unnatural and strange to you, but believe me, its the fastest way to get to SHREDing, which you want as I see Also, Shred is VERY ADVANCED discipline (or guitar playing style) - one of the hardest in fact:) So dont expect to play like Michael Romeo or Alexi Laiho (or who is your favourite shredders ) in a months. This takes a really long time my friend, but YOU CAN MAKE IT;) The first thing you need, in order to play fast, is to practice slowly, with metronome and speed up very carefuly and slowly... Cleanliness of your playing is most important, if you want to became REAL SHREDDER To summarize: 1) Movement from wrist 2) With pick.. find what suits you.. There are already lots of threads about holding a pick a right way:) 3) The thing, that makes or brakes shredder is CLEANLINESS OF HIS PLAYING. Remember this forever Its the only way, to make your friends jaws fall to the ground 4) Exercizes.. I can advice you Dejans Farkas Pinky workout lesson, its in Exercises. Its really nice sounding and not that hard and I guarantee you, that it will help your stamina and strenght 5) Play SLOWLY and maybe even SLOWER, so one day, you will play lightingly fast The thing is, that in slow mode you must learn your muscles PRECISELY that movement, pickin etc. so at faster speed, you dont have to even think about playing:) And your playing will be so clean, fluid and fast, that everyone around you will envy you I promise;) Practice, pracitce, practice, that is the key to art of SHREDDING Thats how all our instuctors did it And we all can to! Jakub "phoenix" Luptovec EDIT: Typos This post has been edited by Jakub Luptovec: Feb 15 2008, 10:17 PM -------------------- my youtube account with riffs and ideas: https://www.youtube.com/user/Phoenygzus
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Feb 16 2008, 03:06 PM |
+1 for pure practice my friend. DOn't expect to see some wonder results in short time periods. Just take your time and practice everything with patience. You guitar is great, don't worry, the heavier pick at a bout 1mm is generally good enough, the tip of the pick should not picking out very little, and the hand should be moving however do you like it, just don't tense it up.
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