The most ridiculous solo ever

[Bigpops]

.......... Notice how he locks his wrist and picks using his arm - that's the secret to fast and accurate picking kids!

That's just his personal preference. Players like Yngwie Malmsteen and Michael Angelo rest their pinky or pinky and ring fingers on the body of the guitar, and pick using the wrist. Others, such as Paul Gilbert and Al Di Meola use a floating hand resting on the bridge slightly. Again, they pick with the wrist.

Here's something I heard that does ring true about picking technique.

Pick one string, as fast as you can, until you can't physically go any faster. Then look at that picking motion (what ever it may be), and slow it right down so that you use the same motion to play at all speeds.

Once you've done that, you're no longer limited by your picking hand, and you just have to get practicing to get your hands synchronised and your string crossing smooth at all speeds.

 

[Andelusion]

Notice how he locks his wrist and picks using his arm - that's the secret to fast and accurate picking kids!

No it isn't, that's the secret to getting tendonitis extra quick.

Picking from the wrist is what you'll see virtually all of the most well known players doing, it's acceptable to use a slight amount of arm movement when picking but it should mainly come from the wrist.

 

[muzzler]

hi,
i used to love this sorta stuff..now i just find it tedious
theres just no soul in it for me and it all sounds the same after a while..like,oh look another shredder!
sorry just my opinion.........
(give me a floyd solo anyday)

 

[nero120]

pd

 

[benneh]

Musical masterbation tbh..

 

[penski]

Fret onanist tbh.

*n

 

[cokecan]

thats quite impressive, though as Gaijin said, it doesnt sound that nice to my ears, well parts do but some parts dont.

no where near as fast but i thought the intro solo to Going Home (live at woodstock version was v.cool too) by Alvin Lee, Ten Years After was also quite ridiculous

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Going Home (live at woodstock version was v.cool too) by Alvin Lee, Ten Years After was also quite ridiculous

Theres a name you don't hear much nowadays.
I must have seen TYA at least five times in the early 70's.

 

[cokecan]

i only really knew about them because of my dad. he loves ten years after, and kept commenting to me that they were from Nottingham etc everytime i listened to stuff like jimmy page, eric clapton, hendrix etc then i got listenin to them and liked them

quality band!

 

[elroberto]

I just can't get into shred at all. Give me a guitar solo where I can actually hear the individual notes and played with feeling and emotion, that's what music's about, not this garbage.