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Tips for better Picking technique
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2024
- Here I try to give you guys as much insight into how I use a plectrum and show you close up what I consider the most efficient picking technique pioneered by the amazing Frank Gambale. I hope you'll enjoy this video and get something from it. More music, gig clips, and lesson type coming up soon. Stay tuned.
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All the best 👍🎸🙏
Video Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Holding the pick
1:02 - Picking angle
1:37 - Playing scales
2:36 - Mini sweeps
2:52 - Support and anchor
"I can sweep quite effortlessly"
We know Alex. We know.
Well done and thanks for sharing!
Hahah, sorry mate, I didn't mean it in an arrogant way but more trying to explain the flow of it etc... I hope you enjoyed it though mate. 👍🙏🎸
@@AlexHutchingsMusic I know man, wrote it with great love and slight cynicism. Keep doing what you do!
i asked for that ..and here is the Video:-) Thanx Alex!
My pleasure MAte. I Hope you enjoyed it! 👍🎸🙏
Great idea to show your pick like that. Props to you.
My pleasure mate. Glad you enjoyed it. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Alex ..you're amazing guitarist ..one of my fav.👍
Thank you Abdul 👍🙏🎸
This is the first time I've seen "economy picking." I'm eager to try that out.
Go for it mate. Good luck with it. 👍🎸🙏
you are one of the best guitarist I have ever seen
That's very kind of you thanks Hamid. 👍🎸🙏
Great stuff. I've been playing nearly 20 years and still struggle with my right hand technique. One day I'll get there.
Thank you mate, well I hope in some small way this video may help. I couldn't really find much material where people really try to show picking in detail etc hence why I made this video. Wishing you all the very best with it 👍🎸🙏
Oh God, likewise 🤕🥴
I've struggled with anchoring mt ring finger on my picking hand ...not sure if it hindered me or what ...but now that I know you do an anchor point ...I'm a little more relieved ...you're one of my favorites Alex ...Thank you
when u talk with ur lovely smile, I feel very relax, n use to get inspiration in practice
Really cool thanks man, i always have trouble with picking
My pleasure man, I hope it helps. All the very best 👍🎸🙏
Un des guitaristes les plus sympathiques, les plus doués et les plus pédagogues et qui, malgré tout son talent et son succès grandissant, reste humble et encore accessible ! UN très grand merci, Monsieur HUTCHINGS !
Great and useful information! Thank you!
You're very welcome mate. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Fantastic skill. I wish I had one % of that skill and I would be a happy man. 👍🇸🇪
Thanks for the tip.
My pleasure. All the best mate 👍🎸🙏
Thanks Master for sharing this...
My pleasure mate 👍🎸🙏
Awesome Alex and very generous of you! Thanks for the insight into your wonderful picking technique, 👍👍!!
My pleasure mate, glad you enjoyed it. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Great! I love these kinds of videos
My pleasure mate, I'm Glad you like them! All the best 👍🎸🙏
I used to hold the pick like Petrucci. I my early days i had real struggel to find that sweet spot. But after a few months and a lot of clinic's from John, i understood the importans of anatomy.
Thanks mate. Very, very interesting
My pleasure mate 👍🎸🙏
Long may you live maestro!
Your technique is incredible Alex.... :)
That's very kind of you to say so Al.All the best 👍🎸🙏
This video is what I'm looking for! Coz I don't properly synchronize my right and left hand thanks for this tips man! A big help 😊
A lot to learn from in this thanks very much
Thank you kindly, Alex. I hope that one day I will see you play live in Poland or in the area. It would be my dream come true. I already saw Greg Howe in 2018 and Guthrie Govan in 2019. Now it is the time to see you 😃Best wishes from Poland! 👍
Thank you mate, I hope to see you there some day too.. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Nice tips! I also anchor my pinky for more stability.
Cheers mate, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Cool you use the pinky too. 👍🎸🙏
Thank you for sharing mate
My pleasure!! 👍🎸🙏
Genial Alex.... Muchas gracias!!!
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Thanks for sharing Alex 🙏. It was helpful 🙏. Havent seen such detailed video in youtube on picking . Learned a lot from you over the years . You are so kind and humble , inspite of so busy life , you still able to find time replying to all comments🙂. Great feeling to communicate with you for all the fans ❤🙂
My pleasure! I do try... I've been very quiet over the years on social media so finally I'm trying it.. All the very best and I'm glad you're enjoying it. 👍🎸🙏
@@AlexHutchingsMusic 😊😊🙏
Thank you, I will check this a couple of times💫
You’re welcome 😊 Have fun 👍🎸🙏
@@AlexHutchingsMusic thank you so much 🙏 I noticed your picking technique is outstanding..! But most of the times I do alternate picking or just downs/ups with legato playing but your ‘economy picking’ is so new to me and very hard; everything what is new you need time to adept😇
Just thanks!
My pleasure. 👍🙏🎸
wooow great video Alex. Gambale picking changes everything...and once you get it there is no coming back, as FG says ;-)
Exactly mate. He is the original master... and I the student.. 👍🎸🙏
@@AlexHutchingsMusic thank you for reply. Being 48 I have never done any guitar course from beginning to the end until pandemic came.
I decided to do something different and over year ago took up FG guitar school sweep picking course. What a great discovery ;-) And I have been practicing with metronome since then. I am
two chapters away from finishing it. Amazing that sweeping made me better alternate picker as well. Anyway you play is on another level and I have watched your channel for years. Keep up a good work, as watching you play motivates bedroom players as myself to more effort. Thank you for your work.
Cool lesson thank you very much Alex :)
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed it. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Thank you for this alex!
My pleasure, hope it is useful 👍🙏🎸
@@AlexHutchingsMusic ive been struggling in my picking so many years! You help me a lot greetings from philippines!
merci Alex !
My pleasure. 👍🎸🙏
Effortless and so precise, I'm a sucky picker so his is solid info, thanks for taking us into the finer details of your picking technique 🎸
Awesome stuff! 😎🎸🎶
My pleasure mate. I’m glad you enjoyed it. All the best 👍🙏🎸
Very cool and interesting!! Even for keyboarders! Not too much pressure while playing 🤓🤩 blessings!!
Hey Lorenz, lovely to see you here. Thanks for stopping by, wishing you and the family health and happiness. Cheers for now 👍🙏🎸
Time 2 time i come again heare at your channel just to listen some pretty and elegant phrases, even in this kind of content, educational. It is very beautiful your art dude, my compliments as a classical guitarrist.
I do the same thing with my pinky as an anchor. You make economy picking look so easy. Thanks for the advice.
Cool mate, my pleasure 👍🎸🙏
Great lesson! ima surely try this at home 😁
Awesome, Go for it mate. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Super Helpful！Thank you So Much Alex！！
Great video 👍🏼
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Thanks man!
My pleasure 👍🎸🙏
Thanks!!!!
You're Welcome! 👍🎸🙏
thanks!
My pleasure. 👍🎸🙏
Man, please read this, you just solved all of my problems.
I used to pick like you used to before like using the finger tips and thumb for holding the pick,
Now after shifting to what you showed in this video, my playing speed literally doubled, and the note clarity, time signature, sweeps, alternate picking speed, everything became crystal perfect and exactly how I imagined I wanted to play,
I have been playing since 5 years, and no one corrected this for me.
I always thought the problem is my left hand, that it is slow and can't coordinate with my right hand at all.
Turns out it was always the way I hold my pick.
Thank you so much for this video, I just can't express how deeply this 1 thing has affected my guitar playing.
I can now play all the fast solos and riffs I was stuck on, In just a day.
Thank you again💜
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. This lesson is Gold. Thank you Alex.
My pleasure Rik. I'm glad you found it useful all the best 👍🎸🙏
yes more thanks
Thanks Alex, now that's a lesson that will last a lifetime!
My pleasure mate. I just put one up on the left hand, hope you'll enjoy that too. 👍🎸🙏
@@AlexHutchingsMusic will check it out!
I think Alex H. is the best and most beautiful hand pick handler ever of course his arts of music over all (complete package) the sounds everything total Artist in this age, God bless you sir Alex H., you're no. 1
That's so very kind of you mate. Thank you 👍🎸🙏
I love the idea of using this in my scale practice. Great way to get across each string. No more getting hung up crossing over. Thanks 🙏
Good luck with it mate. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Nice tips..tq
My pleasure mate. 👍🎸🙏
Thanks for this lesson, Alex! It is a big help for me.
Glad to hear that! All the best with it. 👍🎸🙏
Awesome video, thank you! These kind of video from a world class player are priceless
Cheers again ewljr. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Thank you so much for this explanation. I love your playing!
My pleasure mate. Thanks for watching 👍🎸🙏
Clear, concise and a very effective method. Really enjoy your playing. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks man. My pleasure! 👍🎸🙏
Amazing. I have been playing with my fingernail as if it were a pick (instead of fingerstyle) the entire time - since I find this most comfortable. But nowadays I am coming to realise a pick would help my speed, accuracy AND clarity a ton. Adjusting has been insanely hard but I feel like you targeted all the areas in which I have been unsure how to improve. Gave me a lot of inspiration to crack on! Thanks!
Those are fantastic tips on your picking technique, Alex. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure mate, glad you enjoyed it. 👍🎸🙏
Wow! just found your channel and was shocked to realize that I have been working too hard at what was so simple. I have started using this approach and it not only works better for me, it has added some great options for tone and harmonics. I initially learned to play in the late 80's and have been stuck trying to regain my skills as a result of having injured my hands while in the military. Thanks for this video cheers mate
Once more, thanks for sharing your experience and your advanced knowledge of guitar playing . Being myself a guitar teacher I totally agree with you about left hand position, and the way of holding the pick effortlessly 🙏🏻 wish you all the best and sorry for my bad english... I'm French lol
Why are you so good!? :D been stalk... following you since your "summer of love" track some time ago. Nice to see you wrecking it as you always do! Cheers man!
Hahah. Thank your brother. That means a lot. Thanks for sticking with me all these years all the best mate. 👍🙏🎸
One of the best technique video I've seen. Cheers, Alex!
Awesome I'm glad you think so. All the best 👍🙏🎸
I'm so happy you've been posting regularly! Been a big fan of your playing for years
Thank you mate, I'm very glad to hear it.. Thanks for checking them out. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Oh man I needed this lesson!! Thanks Alex, you’re a star! That pick grip is a gold tip
My pleasure mate. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Thank you for this a Lot! I've been struggling with sweeping for a long while, realized my pick is parallel to the strings. Tried with a slight angle, and felt the effort needed to go through a string drop to something like 60%. So this will be interesting to practice more, thanks! \,,/
This is very reassuring Alex. I'm a self taught player and started around 1987. I naturally developed economy picking although I didn't know it was a thing back then. It was only when I saw other people playing alternate picking that I thought I was doing something wrong and considered relearning but I'm now glad I didn't! I also anchor my little finger on the body and again, tried to stop doing it as I thought it was a bad habit but seeing someone of your colossal ability doing it has made me realise that it's actually ok! Thanks Alex!
Gracias por mostrarnos tu conocimiento, eso te hace muy grande Alex👍👍
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Put out more videos like this. Short vids of specific technique related content. So many of us could learn so much from players of your caliber.
Thanks Jake I'm very glad you enjoyed this... I'll see what I can do... All the very best 👍🙏🎸
Definitely gonna try this approach. Thanks, Alex!
My pleasure mate, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Good luck 👍🙏🎸
Keep em coming buds...just noticed this one today...I've been playing guitar for a few years but just learning on my own and hit a wall. Would love move instructionals for us wannabe rockers. All the Best!
Great Lesson, really helps. Looking forward to see more videos like this...
Cheers mate, More to come! All the best 👍🎸🙏
That picking technique is a dream!!!!!! I want to get there! Thank you for inspiring us mortals to keep trying to climp up Olympus!!! Really nice mate!
Thanks so much man, much appreciated. Wishing you all the best for your own playing. 👍🎸🙏
Oh wow never realized you used a tortex sharp. I always wondered if it helped with note accuracy and I think your style in tandem with them is kind of the proof of concept lol.
Yes mate, used them for over 20 years now... 🤣😂 Love them. 👍🎸🙏
Many many thanks for sharing Alex. Much appreciated. Interesting to hear your experience and your having changed the plectrum holding style after several years playing. I will have a go at this technique. You make it look so effortless. 👍😃 Keep up the great playing as you always do.
Thanks so much mate, always my pleasure 👍🎸🙏
Amazing !!! Thank you very much for the info. I've been following you quite a lot, and also know that you use for most part or you style the economy picking approach, and for me your technically is what id looking for and always admire, of course not putting a side the frank gambale approach, but for me your approach is the way. Thank you again.
My pleasure man, I'm so pleased you are enjoying the videos... It's a great technique once you master it... Wishing you all the very best with it. Thank you man 👍🎸🙏
Wonderful stuff Alex, Ive only in the last few years started to relax my picking hand more & this has helped me a great deal. And I also hold my pick almost identical to you, cheers man :)
Awesome. That’s cool man, glad you enjoyed it. Wishing you all the best with your playing 👍🙏🎸
Just great. A lesson from a master pro and for free 🙌🙌
That's great man, I'm Glad you enjoyed it! All the best 👍🎸🙏
Excellent playing as always! I'm working through your art of improv courses at the moment... having a blast and really enjoying it as well as your stellar playing.
Excellent Alex well done mate .
My pleasure mate. I'm Glad you enjoyed it 👍🎸🙏
That was very comprehensive for me Alex! I did not really take in how you were holding the pick until just now.👀!!!
That's fantastic... Well I'm pleased you enjoyed it. In the playlist are the other playing examples even more close up to help further. All the best with it mate. 👍🎸🙏
WOOOOWW!!! THANK""!!!
Thanks for the great video, Alex! What about some lessons on your jazz and fusion phrasing? Cheers mate!
Cheers Simon... Cool suggestion. I'll see what I can do. All the best 👍🎸🙏
man you rock, keep shooting videos like this man
Thank you mate, I'm glad you're enjoying them. 👍🎸🙏
Thanks Alex, your advice on how to tilt the pick has been very useful. It helped me improve my picking at times when it was losing flow and gain speed, especially when changing strings up or down. Greetings!!!
That's fantastic, I'm Glad it helped! All the best 👍🎸🙏
Thanks for the video! Very useful, I used to play exactly like that, (bar the little finger) but now use a flatter string attack and hold it like you used to. I also convinced myself at 21 that if I alternate picked my technique would improve. 15 years later I've just ditched that idea completely and am now only economy picking. What I've realised is that I think I've always been an economy picker. It gets a bad rap but makes complete sense to me. Now I'm really enjoying being able to play without the constraints of alternate picking. And it sounds great. Economy till I die! p.s. I love Frank's playing too, so that helps!
I enjoyed this
Awesome, I'm glad mate. All the best 👍🎸🙏
I'd love to hear any more tips or in depth analysis of picking, or basically any technique element. So keep 'em coming!
Good vid
I use the tortex sharp as well. You get way better note clarity from sharp picks
Totally. Nice one dude. 👍🎸🙏
I use a similar picking technique you and frank use and always found it great especially for sweeping but I must admit I do incorporate a bit of the Yngwie when I use fast alternate picking but that is just what works for me. That is what is great about the guitar there are no rules, do what works for you and be happy 😃 🤘👍
Yeah totally mate.... I also use bits of alternate here and there too... it's good to mix things up. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Thanks
You're Welcome mate 👍🎸🙏
@@AlexHutchingsMusic hello from Anton Davidians
@@user-gs4dz3wm7c Cool, are you with him now? if so ask him to play you IDon'tGiveAFuckianScale.... 🤣 It's his favourite. 👍🎸🙏
I remember when I 'discovered' economy picking for myself - in my naive younger years I thought I had found something nobody else knew about. It was like unlocking a secret power (or an extra 'gear' as Frank would say) that made picking super fast super easy - then I discovered Frank and his teaching materials and realised that this was a well established technique that extended far beyond the basic applications I was using it for.
Great lesson Alex - cheers.
Yeah nice one man... It's so fun isn't it.. I'm glad you've embraced it too.. It's so fun once it clicks. All the best 👍🎸🙏
I've been using the same techniques for many years, but I'm never going to be able to play like you.
Thats cool Rob, I'm sure you could mate... 👍🎸🙏
What a coincidence! I too discover Gambale! ......oh...that's where the coincidence ends...
I still cannot pick anything like him/you.
Haha, I'm sure you can mate. I'm actually now offering 1-2-1 lessons so I can try to help you if you're interested. Here's a video explaining it. ruclips.net/video/o2uI66AJ_os/видео.html. All the best 👍🎸🙏
I will be getting back with you soon..👍
Thanks mate!! Great video, I hope you get as much back as I do from watching these videos. Ive been struggling getting any kinda speed when economy picking. Any tips I’d be very grateful. I hope you are well and life is treating you kindly!
Thank you mate, I'm glad you're enjoying them and hope it helps somewhat... All good over here thanks man. Cheers for now 👍🎸🙏
Sir please start giving us adv. Lessons so that we can improve ourselves
That's the plan mate. Thanks for watching and all the best 👍🙏🎸
Great video. I have such a hard time with economy picking, even after a lot of practice it always sounds very stilted and uneven, especially the more strings involved, and I don't often intuit how to start a sequence right away, i have to actually think about how to start it. But man, people good at it make me feel like I need to keep revisiting it. It has to be worth it.
Thanks mate, yes well it's one of those things once it clicks it becomes pretty natural and fun... Keep going at it mate. I'm sure it'll pay off in the end. 👍🎸🙏
Hi Sir great content again it is really helpful . Was wondering if you could make a video on your other techniques aswell particularly hybrid picking.
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Thanks so much... I'll see what I can do.. All the best 👍🎸🙏
Alex you're the BEST!!! God bless you man!!! The brand of your guitar? Please? 🙏😊
My pleasure man, I'm glad you enjoyed it. The brand of this one is called. The NuVo Tele by Waghorn Guitars. All the best 👍🙏🎸
I still use your old grip but my downstrokes are played with the back edge of the pick (edge closest to palm) and upstrokes the front edge. Also some runs I initially found difficult turned out to be much easier by leading with an upstroke.
Interesting mate.... Yeah it's a very unique journey for us all, I'm glad you've found a way that works well for you mate... Thanks for watching and all the best 👍🎸🙏
when you can fly on the fretboard my friend you can fly.🎸🎵🎸🎸🎵🎸🎸👍👍👍👍
Thanks man. 👍🎸🙏
@@AlexHutchingsMusic i use to play slowly and my picking was terrible .with time and practise i now can play fast and pick fast.🎸🎸🎵🎵🎸👍
@@vintagetone22 That's fantastic. Good for you 👍🎸🙏