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Jan 20 2007, 06:37 AM |
Sweeping will be pretty difficult that way too, I'm assuming.
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Jan 23 2007, 09:54 PM |
Yeah but I'd rather find this out now instead of finding out in a year when it's much harder for me to change. I don't care that everyone does it differently, I just care that my way might be a bad way. I think you're smart to find out already now. I was holding my pick in a certain way which became a habit and of course after a while you think it's the right way. After 15 years I got sick of the inaccuracy and mistakes in my playing. I started all over again and among other things I changed the way of how I hold my pick. Now I almost never miss and my speed increased a lot. In the beginning I was a newbie again, it was VERY difficult to get rid of all the time playing incorrect. So for me who has been there I think it's damn important to find tthe right way instead of just setteling for a way that works. Don't know how to describe it but instead of holding it between the thumb and fingertip, like I used to (it was a very weak grip) and now it's like maiking a fist and then stretching the finger joints forward lowerng the knuckles until the thumb's and the finger's upper parts (above the last joint.. .where the nail sits) come together... like forming a karate chop hand And I hold the pick between the entire fingerprint part of he thumb and the side of the finger and I only use the tip of the pick. Now it's a firm grip, I'm 100% more secure with this technique. If you don't get anything of my description I don't blame you -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Jan 23 2007, 10:13 PM |
I took pictures of how I used to hold the pick and how I hold it now with my mobile but right now I don't get it over to the comp with Bluetooth.
I'll post em later when I get it to work, even though you got what I meant. Not saying I'm doing it right but just for show of what I did. EDIT: For example my alternate picking was REALLY shitty when string skipping, I'd just hit in whichever random direction felt easiest but it sounded crap and looked terrible. So I sat down with Rock Discipline for about 20 hours and nailed my alternate picking using Pettruci's string skipping exercises. My playing is MUCH better now as a result. I also had problems with that, it was like going from one string to the next was ok but while skipping I was lost. I had no control of the pick. Now I do it more accurate. I also limited my hand movement to slight movement of the wrist instead of huge waving of the entire hand. What I learned is that one can always improve technique. When I feel limited or failing I ask myself if I'm doing it right tecnically. If I realize in a year from now that I can do my picking in an even better way I will not hesitate to drop it all and start all over again. This post has been edited by MickeM: Jan 23 2007, 10:22 PM -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Jan 24 2007, 06:33 AM |
I just found out that Conrad Simon picks like that, too. Only he's one of the fastest and cleanest guitarists alive! He didn't even know he was doing it until he went under Troy Grady's slow-motion close-up producing ShredCam.
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