This Changed My Picking!

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @davidritter7867
    @davidritter7867 2 месяца назад +16

    I have taken nearly every Jeff course on TrueFire and can honestly say I that I have learned more during these courses than any other time in my 50+ years. This is not an ad, haha. Thank you Jeff for your incredible teaching style and extreme knowledge, particularly the chord notes during solos / melodies!! Truly valuable!!

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад +3

      Thank you so much David. I really appreciate this. 🙌🏻🙏🏻

    • @claudioalbanesi7727
      @claudioalbanesi7727 2 месяца назад +3

      I confirm.
      I have been on the same path. I took all Jeff’s courses and all of them taugth me something. Jeff is the MAN

  • @robzagar4275
    @robzagar4275 2 месяца назад +8

    Great music here. Nice playing! Thanks Jeff for all the insight. Your teaching has helped this older rookie pick up some good information ! Thank you

  • @michaelarthurmusic307
    @michaelarthurmusic307 2 месяца назад +1

    Wow. Decades playing professionally, and today I learned to angle my pick. Thanks!

  • @mbach1187
    @mbach1187 2 месяца назад +1

    that jam at the end was killer

  • @digitaldrew
    @digitaldrew 2 месяца назад +5

    Thank you, kindly. I was in fact doing some of those don'ts lol. Nice to see subtle changes can have such an impact. That song at the end - chef's kiss. Brilliant!

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад +1

      Well thank you kindly as well!!

  • @JimmyDel
    @JimmyDel 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Jeff!! Always gold in your lessons. Love the outro too 🤘🤘

  • @rockerbuck967
    @rockerbuck967 2 месяца назад +3

    Once I used the Jazz 3 picks, and any shape like that, I never went back. I do favor the Jazz 3 XL's though. Right shape, and feel more like a regular sized pick. Best part is, they last a long time. Once you get "trained" on those, if you have to use a regular pick it's easy. If you want real training, use a "Stylus Pick" once. They're only for practice, not for gigging.

  • @johnfeole1971
    @johnfeole1971 Месяц назад

    Hmmm.. old dogs can learn new tricks! Thanks Jeff, very helpful.

  • @Rokcabilly
    @Rokcabilly Месяц назад

    I’ve been struggling recently with learning to tremolo pick efficiently. This video is a great reminder that you shouldn’t have a death grip on your pick. Thank Jeff.

  • @patfinnegan467
    @patfinnegan467 15 дней назад

    Damn, Jeff, that f'n works! Thank you.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  15 дней назад +1

      Music to my ears!

    • @patfinnegan467
      @patfinnegan467 15 дней назад

      @@JeffMcErlain the pick angle cleaned up a couple of licks I like to play immediately! Never even thought about it.

  • @williamswanson6424
    @williamswanson6424 2 месяца назад

    Please continue to put these short pieces of your band at the end of your youtube videos! Its fun to play along!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @gerrymcgill3209
    @gerrymcgill3209 2 месяца назад

    Great advice Jeff. How easily we forget to check the basics and avoid developing bad habits. Beautiful playing and tone on the closing improvisation. 👏👏

  • @azapura
    @azapura 2 месяца назад +2

    Thank you! Amazing performance!

  • @jnapier99
    @jnapier99 2 месяца назад

    The bit about pick angle sort of blew my mind. I've been doing it wrong - holding it parallel to the strings - and this made a big difference immediately! Thanks Jeff, awesome as usual.

  • @davidmunoz3268
    @davidmunoz3268 2 месяца назад

    THANK YOU JEFF! I can't tell you how many technique videos I've watched and still not been able to figure out where I was going wrong. I've gained so much from this video alone.

  • @nopenheimer
    @nopenheimer 2 месяца назад

    That jam is unbelievably good.

  • @NashvilleJB
    @NashvilleJB 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks Jeff - good way to start my Saturday! Can recommend "Blues Rock Repeated Licks', has helped me a LOT! Enjoyed the second half of the video also, you and the band sound great.

  • @ScottfromBaltimore
    @ScottfromBaltimore 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for the tips, and the big drums. Echoes of Echoes.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад +1

      A little STCFTHOTS as well!!

  • @rodvella-iq4so
    @rodvella-iq4so 2 месяца назад

    Jeff, I’ve been playing for years (like you) and of late had been frustrated why I struggle with speed and consistency - pick angle and the position of the forearm and hand - finally - thanks!!

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад +1

      Awesome!

    • @rodvella-iq4so
      @rodvella-iq4so 2 месяца назад

      We’re the same age (almost to the day). Went to music school for three years… Robben Ford is my guitar hero - since 1988 when my guitar teacher recommended Talk to your daughter. Like many guitarists, I chased his tone for years - like you… I have nice gear, but I realize that it’s Robben choice of notes, phrasing, touch, talent and improvisation skills that I’m drawn to most, and for his tone, a high head-room amp or a good boost with a small amp gets me close enough!

  • @dwstoeckel4740
    @dwstoeckel4740 2 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for everything you do jeff.. love your music, love your instruction.. you have a great channel!
    Edit: and that piece of music at the end? My goodness.. just wow…

  • @nopenheimer
    @nopenheimer 2 месяца назад

    Side note: stick on pick grips made a HUGE and immediate difference in learning to have my pick hand relaxed without dropping the picks.
    Coming from both bass and classical guitar I had so much trouble holding the pick loosely without dropping it when strumming that I always went back to playing without one.
    For YEARS.
    Stupidly thin picks were better but I hated the sound and couldn't play lead with them well. No amount of practice helped.
    I FINELY tried a pick grip (fender mojo) and it literally fixed it in a day or so. I had been fighting my hand the whole time, but this let me subconsciously have faith that the pick wasn't about to fly away and my hand just... relaxed. I got some generic stick on grips - the ones that are cut similar to 351s (but truncated), not the round ones - and they are even better: much cheaper, easily cut to any pick (mojo are slide on and made to fit 351s), and being stick on they don't shift... You can count on the pick point being just where you expect (the straight edge of the grip above the point gives a good reference edge).
    Best of all, I now know how to play with my hand relaxed and can play without the grips. I typically do use them because it feels so natural now.
    I can't believe it was that simple.
    I would recommend new players who have issues with it give them a try, but use them as training wheels and move on to playing without them early on... You want to be super comfortable picking up a guitar and random pick at a party and playing, and the grips do make them a bit too thick to keep in your wallet etc. just in case.

  • @mykneeshurt8393
    @mykneeshurt8393 2 месяца назад

    Great pick holding / strumming tips. Love the live footage! Thank you!

  • @james-gang
    @james-gang 2 месяца назад

    Cool Peace at the end!! 🖖🤩✨

  • @etienne844
    @etienne844 2 месяца назад

    Great performance Jeff . All the best !!

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      Thanks man!! Hope you are well!

  • @mattgleason5087
    @mattgleason5087 2 месяца назад

    Life changer. Thanks so much!

  • @ojaisherpa
    @ojaisherpa Месяц назад +1

    what is that HH strat? Beauty

    • @barsalla
      @barsalla Месяц назад

      Fender Custom Shop Michael Landau

  • @chrisboule970
    @chrisboule970 2 месяца назад

    Incredible performance and tones. And a timely synchronized swimming reference

  • @mac7659
    @mac7659 2 месяца назад

    Nice playing and very nice drum solo!

  • @SRHMusic012
    @SRHMusic012 2 месяца назад

    Good advice and well presented, Jeff. And the Monty Python references are a bonus (!). And a free performance video at the end- great idea.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      A big fan obviously! Thanks!

  • @linheitzig9227
    @linheitzig9227 2 месяца назад

    Great lesson Jeff, thank you!

  • @briancassidy6678
    @briancassidy6678 2 месяца назад

    Great advice. Great bonus jam! Most recent tour?

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад +1

      Hey! 2022 tour. Looking forward to doing it again in September!

  • @musiccreation1198
    @musiccreation1198 2 месяца назад

    THANK YOU Jeff.

  • @MrAwesomeSaucesome
    @MrAwesomeSaucesome 2 месяца назад

    I had a big picking upskill when i found the cracking the code channel. My picking caught up and actually overtook my fretting hand. Took me ages to diagnose as i was so used to picking being the issue 😂

  • @a.j.garrett9639
    @a.j.garrett9639 2 месяца назад

    My God.
    High level.
    I can't overstate how amazing this performance is.
    If you tune in for the lesson and decide to jump videos and don't watch the performance you are losing out.

  • @InsolentMusicalPeasant
    @InsolentMusicalPeasant 2 месяца назад

    The tone during the performance was so sick.

  • @ssiowi
    @ssiowi 2 месяца назад

    Thank-you Jeff! BTW, total respect--and sadly, some envy too--for your ÷13 beauty! "Divided Duo" from the Line 6 Helix world--lovely for sure--puts us modeler-folks curbside to the beautiful, gated community that is the JRT 9/15. Behind you; do we all see the CCC 9/15? Thanks again Sir!

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад +2

      Thanks! It’s an EDT 13/29!

  • @david25876
    @david25876 2 месяца назад

    Great tips. Thx!!

  • @thechahal
    @thechahal 2 месяца назад

    Another great video Jeff. You touched on it in another video but how hard should you hit the stings. I play my strat acoustically most times and am interested on how it sounds when you do. not only soloing but also when play chords/rhythm. Thanks again for all you content on your channel

  • @stratman9449
    @stratman9449 2 месяца назад

    hi Jeff.....intersting....over the years i have tried many (not ALL) different types of picks....BUT i've always come back to my old favorite the "Fender" tortois shell medium pick......they can be a bit thin or slippy, but they give me the right feel to play soft or with more "attack"...cheers.....like that HH strat.......but noooo...must not get sidetracked.....

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      Like I said, wherever work for you!!

  • @jloch9312
    @jloch9312 2 месяца назад

    I have always held my pick the way Eddie Van Halen held his for the same reason he held his that way. I'm a leftie that learned right handed. Wish I could say I play like him!

  • @13thAMG
    @13thAMG 2 месяца назад

    Absolutely 💯, Jeff.
    I'm weird. I started out 50 years ago only able to use a pick (badly). My overall right hand timing has always been a struggle.
    Some decades ago, working with Tommy was key to me turning to finger picking.
    So, now I finger pick badly too. 🙄
    There's something to be said about just having natural talent, which I definitely don't.
    So, learning from legends like you is the best chance I have on this lifelong journey.
    Thanks, Jeff. Hope to meet you in NY one day. 😉

  • @a.j.garrett9639
    @a.j.garrett9639 2 месяца назад

    Can we take a moment to seriously acknowledge how beautiful that HH start is.
    And the colour of the headstock! I dont love light colour wood Strats. I love that yellow.
    Anyway those two humbuckers with those beautiful covers what's the perloid pickguard 😮❤

    • @Gearhound62
      @Gearhound62 2 месяца назад

      Landau

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      Thanks!! It’s a Michael Landau limited run Strat. I was lucky enough to get one on a trade!

  • @richardsrensen4219
    @richardsrensen4219 2 месяца назад

    thanks a lot i think this is a course for me

  • @LowdenOs
    @LowdenOs 2 месяца назад

    You talked about holding the pick with a moderate grip only but did not mention the problem that often comes with it … the moving pick … for me the biggest topic ever. Good grip is the single most important thing about the pick for me.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      I’ve been fortunate that that problem was usually from using either too small a pick or one made of the wrong material for my hands.

  • @stratocumulusnimbostratus328
    @stratocumulusnimbostratus328 2 месяца назад

    Would,love to see the underside of you hand. Are you holding pick on the end of your 1st finger or is the finger more bent and the pick more being held in the side joint of 1st finger

  • @aminahmed2220
    @aminahmed2220 2 месяца назад

    What a fantastic video jeff my favorite youtuber have a wonderful weekend also I cut my wrist with a knife when my family was sleeping ❤😢😊

  • @ae3898
    @ae3898 2 месяца назад

    @1:06 the applauding old ladies clip from Monty Python’s Flying Circus really pulled this whole video together for me.

  • @GazMoz78
    @GazMoz78 2 месяца назад

    Pink Floyd meets Moby Dick! Gotta love it 😎

  • @VilleKuitunen6
    @VilleKuitunen6 2 месяца назад

    Monty Python clapping ladies!

  • @icarusi
    @icarusi 2 месяца назад

    A lot of picking advice assumes everybody has the same type and position of 1st thumb joint, and the same with the length of thumb, 1st & 2nd finger. Some pick grips aren't practical for those when those dimensions, and joint articulations, don't match those advising.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      You should make a video on that!

  • @AndrewNuttall
    @AndrewNuttall 2 месяца назад

    Question, when I switch my pick so that it hits the strings at a slight angle, I get this small scraping sounds instead of the clean, clear front to the note that I get with a flat on pick attack. Am I doing something wrong with it?

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      Not sure, I’m sure you have thought of this, maybe it’s the pick itself? The material or its a bit rough? A rougher edge would make that sound. Just a thought!

  • @EmilioConesa
    @EmilioConesa 2 месяца назад

    I asked my doctor , I look terrible in the mirror every morning what’s wrong with me?
    Doctor said “I don’t know but your eyesight is perfect!”

  • @stratjed
    @stratjed 2 месяца назад

    Heard Jerry Garcia, and was ruined for what's achievable with a picking hand. Find a guy missing his middle finger who can pick like that? You won't. Both with a pick and without and the Banjo. Adamas 2.0 is the pick for me got that from Garcia, but a Fender thin on a Twelve string is magic. I'm that guy that Eat, slept, and shit Michael Shenker and Garcia both. The pick every note of bluegrass is all pick 'in. Really believe the thicker the pick the better. Thin is like striking a bell with a newspaper. Like BB King said "Why you working so hard?"

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      The missing finger didn’t affect the way he picked because it was his middle finger. Certainly if you were fingerpicking it would be different, but it didn’t inhibit the he held a pick. No slam on Jerry, just pointing to the way he held a pick.

    • @stratjed
      @stratjed 2 месяца назад

      Yes its thumb and first on most picks. Agree. Just think of Jerry when I think about picking. Banjo rolls with a pick between the thumb and first and plucking notes with the ring and pinky. Magician like pick tucks. The missing finger was out of the way so to speak and sure could have been an advantage. But Bluegrass is Picking. Anyways, made me think of him when you said picking.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      @@stratjed I will revisit!

    • @stratjed
      @stratjed 2 месяца назад

      @@JeffMcErlain Its ok you know they're not a cult anymore . 🤣 Love ya man.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      😂

  • @stuartallcock3516
    @stuartallcock3516 2 месяца назад

    I've played guitar for years on and off , ive never learned to play fast. Recently I've wanted to play fast but it's impossible I'm 49 now i think it's too late for me. Plus my hands are quite small so think odds are against me.

    • @JeffMcErlain
      @JeffMcErlain  2 месяца назад

      I don’t think so! I’d find a good teacher who can assess the situation.

    • @stuartallcock3516
      @stuartallcock3516 2 месяца назад

      @@JeffMcErlain it's hard to find a good teacher here.. they mostly are intermediate players trying to take money from you.. to be honest.

  • @stevemiell4555
    @stevemiell4555 2 месяца назад

    Man the right hand is so neglected in guitar tutorials, coming from acoustic its a challenge!

  • @PsionicAudio
    @PsionicAudio 2 месяца назад +2

    Another great video. Yawn. Change it up, suck once in a while. ;)