Paul Gilbert Guest Lesson - Picking (TG236)
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2012
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Über-shred lord Paul Gilbert delivers the ultimate guitar lesson on picking, string muting, rhythmic phrasing and arpeggios
Download Total Guitar issue 236 for the accompanying tab and explanation - available in the UK and, digitally, worldwide via Apple Newsstand and Zinio (www.zinio.com) from 24 December 2012. 
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Even when he's teaching you, he makes you feel like his good buddy. I love this guy.
Well said!
the mark of a true teacher, recognizing ones own errors
this guy is so down on earth.. you gotta love him
My two friends and I staked out at his hotel lobby to ambush him to sign our guitars. Needless to say he was really the nice down to earth guy off stage who talks to his fans like a regular friend. My golden moment!
@@megatonhammer4723 broooooo I envy you
I like how he tries to explain what outside picking is with his head.
Even though he didnt say much I felt like I still heard him 🤣
he's him gainR
If you really wanna know why PG's picking is god tier it's because he spent something like the first 2 years of his playing only using upstrokes as a mistake. Most guitarists have trouble when alternate picking when the pick is caught in between the higher string (pitch) and the lower string. If you can up pick at the same speed as down picking then you learn to make that tiny motion with your wrist to readjust the pick.That's why he's telling you to practice that blues lick starting with both an up and a down stroke. You could also just run through scales with a metronome only using up strokes to build up the muscle memory too. Most people can down pick like a fucking machine but if you tell them to do the same thing but with upstrokes they sound like they just picked up a guitar for the first time. Speed comes with accuracy and balance and if your down picking is better than your up picking well then you're gonna end up tripping over notes in certain runs.
It's just surprising that he's mentioned that story about his up picking but he's never mentioned specifically practicing up picking in any of the old REH vids or in these other lessons. Maybe he's unaware of it or maybe he's just trying to keep his secrets.
I can pick anything....still cant play that bloody fast lick! Never giving up though...
Oh nice idea with the scales! Yeah I think he's unaware. Like Zakk Wylde with his pick slanting.
Thank you very much for this information.
I know what I'm doing for the next two years.
But he was like 6 and couldn't actually play anything lol. Practicing upstrokes is great advice but it took Paul years of practice to pick as fast as he does, and he couldn't do it that young. He literally didn't know you could downstroke and thought you had to play using one finger on the fretting hand because he took lessons really young and had a warped memory of it. That's probably why he doesn't mention it. Thousands of hours of practicing and going to the best music school in the country is why he's so good IMO.
Ive also said that about Paul. Also, in his picking techniques book, Al Di Meola says to practice same lines with the picking switched. He uses intro to Race with the Devil as an example.
This makes me feel so much better. Been struggling for 6 years to play that damn fast lick of his! It's nice to know other people have had a similar struggle in a sense lol even ol Paul!
Its so hard! Im back on the metronome again...not giving up
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@@Bmxmusikian did you get it down yet? It's been 5 years buddy.
Me too
He's my favorite guitar teacher on the net. Thank you, Paul!
This guy has a real honest down to earth teaching technique. I like his videos a lot
I have advanced my guitar playing the most with Paul gilbert's lessons through the years. He is just a great teacher and really shows a large effort to share his knowledge.
He is one of the guitar teachers along with Joe Satriani,Petrucci,Guthrie Govan,Vai who have immense knowledge and are so down to earth when teaching
I confirm, I learned the second lick (not as a starting point but I wasn't very experimented) and now I can play it really fast (as fast as Paul) but learning it will probably stay one of the most frustrating things in my guitarist's life! There are one million parameters you have to know and millions of experiments you have to try to finally reach good results...
Gauthier Linon how did you get there ?
Who cannot love this guy! Such a brilliant player and such a fun instructor too!
This dude is such a great teacher. I would pay any amount of money to take lessons from Paul.
Heres a great tip I stumbled upon by accident..
Play fret 01234 using all alternate picking across the strings for a few minutes, break, play again, break...then try pauls hard lick.
Think this works to improve your picking because the more notes you play on each string (in this case 5 per string), the easier your brain thinks it is because you arn't crossing strings as ofter, and your wrist gets a break between each cross..
Paul is so full of wisdom. Great lesson.
Such a great,humble teacher
Impressed! Unlike many other so well he mastered all type styles available and with feeling, like I said, he's just the best.
Paul is a gift to the world! We love you man!
Paul is the essence of being an expert with the ability to teach it to you like you're 5. The epiphanies he's given me on guitar always make me laugh cause it's so simple most of the time.
I just noticed when he plays "the lick" here slowed down he uses inside picking, or hitting the higher string with a downstroke. Much easier to play it that way. But of course he can nail it either way.
Beautiful soul…!
My alternate picking technique literally originates with the "popsickle stick caught in your bicycle spokes" GIT ad Paul did in the 80s, and even though he's disparaging that exercise here, I'll be less than modest and say my alternate picking is like a machine gun. Thanks Paul.
haha - that alternate picking exercise he's famous for teaching has only taken me about 15 year to play up to tempo and cleanly but to get to that point it made me a decent alternate picker. So thank you Paul ! :)
Freakin Paul. You never fail to impress. Happy holidays, brother!
When you do the upstroke on the g-string, pick the string with a rotating wrist motion (opening a door knob type of motion). That causes your pick to fly over the d-string and be ready in position for a downstroke on d-string.
cvjunior123 thanks!
Damn PG, YOURE JUST TOO AWESOME! 🤘
Check out that “Holy Diver” Marshall cab🤘🔥
he is totally right it all starts with a simple Blues beat and from there you could go anywhere
Paul you're awesome ❤️
ya dude. that four note upstroke on the g string changed my life.
To be perfectly honest, I find that Gilbert's way of picking UP on the downbeat is actually much easier to play. At least for me it is. It also helps if you guys ACCENT certain notes while doing simple licks like this. It will really help with your accuracy. Start simple, and work your way up.
Paul, thanks, same as first section of Yngwie's Rising Force solo, from blues to Yngwie in two easy motions...ha!
2:42 Dab?
lmao I immediately scrolled down to the comments when I saw him do that, funny how other people noticed it too haha
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Dude! Check out...Hes doing that fast thing!
this man is amazing
"Inside picking" is actually easier and more natural for me than outside picking for some reason.
"Dude, check it out - he´s doing this fast thing!" This was exactly me as a 15 year old!!! I still admire this man. He truly is one of the finest guitar virtuosos on the planet.
Great approach!
Futile picking exercises causing sonic pain and bad sound across the earth since 1990. That's LOL funny. Good of him to offer this lesson with the blues shuffle thing.
Technique upon technique upon technique.... No one can start out awesome, you have to obtain it. Practice, practice, practice is all I can say....
@ 5:00, 1990?, you taught it to me in "86 Paul.
True Master.
if you don't get this lesson, you need to learn more. because this is everything.
I don't get it. Why do we have to pick this way? It's problematic. I don't get it. Could you explain it to me?
@@federtm2 it seems that he doesn't prefer to be "trapped" between two strings when picking. If you take the last lick, and start on an up-stroke on the D string, you'll end up on a down-stroke when transitioning to the G string thus trapping you between the two strings. It's more economic, on the picking side of things, to practice it the way he explains here to avoid the mistake of having to lift your pick out from between the two strings to skip to another. It's not so noticeable when playing at a steady pace, but you'll wonder why you're struggling to pick fast enough and stay synchronised when the speeds are increased.
I hope this helps and that all is well. Sorry its 4 years over due!
I guess I've been outside string picking already all along playing that same 12 bar E blues shuffle thing hes playing I've played that too alot..so I think he wants us to move that up the neck on different strings and different positions he's saying more or less
I've always started on a down-pick, even when descending while performing inside picking. Makes me feel like shit every time I try and do it fast but I just cannot change my ways.
Wouldn't I be doing a disservice to myself if I allowed myself to believe I couldn't do it.
Okay, now i really got a reason to live.
Paul it´s a freaking genius !!
That Dio Marshall cab is the shit.
legend! he hits the higher string with an up \m/
"Standing on top of a volcano with lava coming out..."
Paul your a trip dude.
too many of those... blues is the most fun thing to play ever, along with slamdeath ;D
I learned the fast riff first actually. picked it up about my sixth year playing and nearly had the speed down without too much struggle.
I think I played it as an ascending lick instead of descending that way you can start on the down stroke. just food for thought
That lick drives me nuts as well, still cant do it right and I'm primarily an alt picker!
Dude! Check it out, he's doing that fast thing!
That was the scariest thing I have ever done hahaha. I'm a heavy metal player so i'm used to a lot more distortion, and I hated that guitar as well. Why oh why did he pick that guitar lol!
do you own one? or is it just the look that you don't like?
GuitarCommander16 I played his guitar on stage with him. Even he admitted in a video, it's not an easy guitar to play, but the tone is great
wow your lucky man haha, might get one
8 years to get there? There's hope yet :D
6 years have gone by. How are you making out?
@@SilverPaladin been on and off with playing so not amazingly hahaha. Playing feels a lot better though.
@@TheRandomCrapGuitar I will check up in 2 years haha!
well here we are
4:55 Nice Di Meola imitation
He says his fast lick. Which one is he referring to?
technical difficulties is so didifficult.
VISHAL MOHAN technically it is difficult...
Tristan Evans Evans yes technically its difficult
If your being technical about it then yes
His old famous lick he says to start on an up stroke is that right? He plays it at the end. Experimenting I noticed starting with a s down stroke made an inefficient changing to the next string and noticed the movement changing strings ,
Makes much more sense staring with than upstroke so you don't have to jump the string with an upstroke it seems to be way less inofICIENTIF ANY ONE CAN CONFIRM HES TALKING ABOUT STARTING WITH AN ON HIS FAMOUS 4 note exercise is this correct?
Thanks!
Depends....ive learnt it starting on a different beat and changing to the next string with an up stroke on note 4
Only Paul can improve on himself. Made the best technical exercise more musical.
before I use shuffle...
thanks gilbert
'Standing on top of a volcano with lava coming out' kind of a lick
It's like he's the human version of the Book about Everything about Guitars Ever.
the only problem i have with the "fast one" lick, is that my pick catches just so slightly both strings when im doing the up stroke so i get a bit of extra sound.. im a economic picker,but if someone can help me with just this little thing i will touch a new level of alternate picking. is the trick to mute the lower string with your first finger? or shoud i do it "the honest way" so that i develop technique where my pick skips the lower string on the up stroke.. any sugestions?
Sonic Pain would be a good song title.
yea
Does he start that with a downstroke or an upstroke on the open A string?
8 years? Don't lie paul
I'm surprised that Paul uses such a thin pick...I use a 4.10mm V-Pick, I could never go back to a regular pick. The one thing that kind of sucks is that I pay $10 per pick...lol
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What does he have jammed under his A & D strings at the nut? Is it to pack those strings a little higher? Is it to mute those strings a tad? Anyone got any ideas?
Its just paper to stop the string from buzzing
The string is likely wrapped too high around the tuners so the breaking point is not clean off the headstock side of the nut, resulting in ugly sympathetic resonances if not muted. A string tree would fix it, but string trees bring other issues if not properly greased, like the wound strings catching on the tree (and who wants grease hanging off their string tree, getting allover the inside of their case). Another possibility is the breaking point on the fingerboard side of the nut is not at the very edge of the fingerboard, resulting in horrific squealing buzz when playing open strings. This is a really basic nut-making mistake and it would be embarrassing for a guitarist of PG's caliber to put up with a nut cut like that as it also wrecks intonation as the vibrating length of the string is longer than it should be (extending the scale).
At 3:06 Did he say - In Syria, that should be a technique everybody can do easily?? :D :D
Takes a big man to say he's wasted his pupils' time and then show a better way to develop.
Ugh I hate the scratchy sound, you HAVE to keep the pick level that's like rule number one.
The scratchy is terrible especially on the high strings when you're doing sweeps and such.
Even, level picking...it's the toughest but it sounds the most smooth.
Spjungen I think it's different for everyone honestly. Players like Eric Johnson and Yngwie Malmsteen swear by a forward angled pick because of the method they use to change strings (economy basically).
His pinky isn't just as long as my index, its even more flexible !!!
what song did paul use? sounds so familiar but i really have no idea. help. lol
Paul and the Rippin Triplets
Is there a better guitar teacher than Paul Gilbert? NO. (Maybe Doug Steele .... but certainly no one else).
how tall?
Mr. Joseph Satriani is just as good
193cm
None of them are great alternate picking exercises though. Try MAB's descending fours lick if you want real practice.
not as tall as you think if you see him in person
Nah, I'm a clown.
after 12 years of PAIN you say this mr. Gilbert, SHAME ON YOU SIR!
the douchy ones...
Silly Paul...what kind of metal fan doesn't appreciate blues? (not being sarcastic)
the only cool thing about that hideous guitar was the headstock and he made even worse. Flip that guitar get rid of the pick guard and put the humbuckers back in it.
hush
The only cool thing about that hideous guitar was the headstock and he made even worse. Flip that guitar get rid of the pick guard and put the humbuckers back in it.
Opinions, opinions.. oh and a bit more opinions.. I personally would buy that any day over the Iron Label ibanez i have now.
No offense but this is incredibly boring compared to Intense Rock 1. Love Paul Gilbert but after watching Intense Rock 1. Well....
the only cool thing about that hideous guitar was the headstock and he made even worse. Flip that guitar get rid of the pick guard and put the humbuckers back in it.
The only cool thing about that hideous guitar was the headstock and he made even worse. Flip that guitar get rid of the pick guard and put the humbuckers back in it.