Oh, For The Love Of God, my alt. picking sucks |
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Oh, For The Love Of God, my alt. picking sucks |
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Jun 12 2007, 04:26 PM |
no matter what i do i just cant get it right. any pointers or tricks that you guys learned? Just that it takes practice and practice and practice. Took me a while too when I started out on guitar, it's just to get it to stuck in your brain. Practice different patterns. First on one string, then on two string like; ...D U D U G ---5---5-| D -5---5---|repeat ...D U D U G -----5---| D -5-5---5-|repeat ...D U D U G -------5-| D -5-5-5---|repeat Then work on triplets, hope that gives a few ideas -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Jun 12 2007, 05:17 PM |
Ok could anyone tell me the reason It's good to learn strict alt picking, I just prefer using economy all the way, it's more comfortable..
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Jun 12 2007, 05:52 PM |
Fkalich - your posts are becoming works of art - I love the robot arm bobbity bobitty bit
And yes, its good advice too! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Jun 22 2007, 02:46 AM |
One thing I was wondering personally about Alt Picking is the note versus picking timing.
For instance: Back in the day when I was learning bluegrass picking from a professional at his studio he said "the pick should be moving up and down in a perfect pattern with the speed of the song, but if a note is skipped in the song you should skip the pick as well..." What this resulted in was the following example: ----D----U---D-----U----D----U----D----U ----1----3----1-----------1----3----1---------e -------------------------------------------------b -------------------------------------------------g -------------------------------------------------D -------------------------------------------------A -------------------------------------------------E So on the fourth count your pick didn't hit the string because no note was to be played. The physical result was D--U--D----D--U--D. Is that the right way to do it? I ask because since I have really been working on my Alt picking I would play the above as D--U--D----U--D--U. Which one is right? I can't perceive any time loss the way I do it but I wanna make sure I practice AP the right way. Thanks in advance! This post has been edited by Hardtail: Jun 22 2007, 02:48 AM -------------------- Beginner's Amp & Guitar Gear Guide My Keeley Blues Driver BD-2 Review My Line6 Flextone II Review Guitars: Martin D-16RGT with B-Band UST & '99 Fender "Big Apple" Hardtail HH Strat Amps: Fender Blues Junior Special Edition & Fender Studio 85 (Simultaneous... yummy) |
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