AndyPollow
09-30-2009, 02:35 AM
http://www.chopsfromhell.com/guest_columnists.html
Thats alot of free lessons! Im going through all of it. Alot of it is really good.
Check this out if your really into picking -
alternate vs economy
I found something that seems better than both. I wonder if some people like Yngwie and David T Chastain do this and dont even know it. I got a little fast with alternate but faster with economy but I didnt like playing only an even or odd number of notes per string. Down asc and up desc - even number is alternate inside, odd number is sweeping - a long stroke that hits 2 notes changing strings. So then I was surprised to find that when you make a habit of starting a new string asc with a downstroke and desc with an upstroke and you focus on your fingers you can play licks the way they are in tab mixing even and odd number of notes in the same lick fast and accuratley and that worked really good. I was surprised that is possible. It takes alot of work.
Then from focusing mostly on my fingers I started doing something wierd I had never done that is really fast and has a powerfull tone. I started learning to focus ONLY on whipping my fingers fast and my subconciouse moves the pick. It feels like someone else is moving my right hand. At first I thought it was alternate cuz it has a powerfull tone but then I noticed especially with straight scales I am starting every string asc AND desc with a downstroke and my wrist is flicking in a new way like a hard bouncy motion. And instead of a sweep asc it is actually 2 individual downstrokes changing strings and desc you would think that would be wierd but somehow my pick jumps really fast to the next string and it sounds even. You could do that for alot of years and think its alternate. Especially if you use alternate at speeds slow-a little fast.
I wish I could teach it. Like make a website about it? But if you like hard soft hard soft you should use alternate cuz it dosent sound rythmycal like that. I might even be wrong and you can use that same wrist flick/focus on fingers and learn to do alternate string changes. I cant yet. But you can play more than straight scales if you memorize slowly first. I play complicated things fast that way.
Thats alot of free lessons! Im going through all of it. Alot of it is really good.
Check this out if your really into picking -
alternate vs economy
I found something that seems better than both. I wonder if some people like Yngwie and David T Chastain do this and dont even know it. I got a little fast with alternate but faster with economy but I didnt like playing only an even or odd number of notes per string. Down asc and up desc - even number is alternate inside, odd number is sweeping - a long stroke that hits 2 notes changing strings. So then I was surprised to find that when you make a habit of starting a new string asc with a downstroke and desc with an upstroke and you focus on your fingers you can play licks the way they are in tab mixing even and odd number of notes in the same lick fast and accuratley and that worked really good. I was surprised that is possible. It takes alot of work.
Then from focusing mostly on my fingers I started doing something wierd I had never done that is really fast and has a powerfull tone. I started learning to focus ONLY on whipping my fingers fast and my subconciouse moves the pick. It feels like someone else is moving my right hand. At first I thought it was alternate cuz it has a powerfull tone but then I noticed especially with straight scales I am starting every string asc AND desc with a downstroke and my wrist is flicking in a new way like a hard bouncy motion. And instead of a sweep asc it is actually 2 individual downstrokes changing strings and desc you would think that would be wierd but somehow my pick jumps really fast to the next string and it sounds even. You could do that for alot of years and think its alternate. Especially if you use alternate at speeds slow-a little fast.
I wish I could teach it. Like make a website about it? But if you like hard soft hard soft you should use alternate cuz it dosent sound rythmycal like that. I might even be wrong and you can use that same wrist flick/focus on fingers and learn to do alternate string changes. I cant yet. But you can play more than straight scales if you memorize slowly first. I play complicated things fast that way.