Different Alternate Picking Methods, If You even thought You do something wrong You'll be more confused Options

[Darius Wave]

Hey folks! Many time we were talking about the picking about the elbow, forearm, wrist, fingers picking methods. I just wanted to collect a few vids that will show ...taht NOTHING is quite sure (especially which one is best) when we deal with some huge players playing absolutley different and all having total results in this so:


John Petrucci: as You see all the hand is "frozen" - He plays with his whole arm:

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Yngwie Malmsteen - based on the wrist (look how the wrist is angled and at his resting point). It looks like he uses pretty straight pick to strings angle and sometimes he uses also arm foaccents:

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Paul Gilbert - uses mostly wrist but his hand rests rather on the "fat" part of the palm. He also changes angle of his pick while going from low to high strings. He use huge pick angle and get's pretty harsh tone.

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Steve Morse - That's a weird situation. Need no comment - just look at those long fingers and pick between thumb and the FLAT part of index finger.

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Marty Friedman - looks like he doesn't mute low strings at all (look where is the resting point of his hand...how low. Anyway...You can't hear too much noises so...he probably plays so damn hard...that he doesn't need to mute that much . To be honest it look very weird but indeed this position is comfortable. You can use full range of wrist movement (up and down):






Those are probably 4 most diffrent picking methods. You can add Yours - please try to post only the "different ones" if You have something in Your mind Also add some description

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This post has been edited by Darius Wave: Sep 14 2013, 10:27 AM