I learned this song like 20+ years ago and just ended up doing a hybrid of economy/sweep and alternate picking to get the speed. It works for me anyway 😂
As an economy picker, I never knew this riff was that hard when playing alternate picking, but man, it looks very tricky. Neither way is better overall, of course,, and alternate picking will be superior in other situations (so, if that's the way you like playing, then carry on), but with economy picking, the beginning to this is just down on D string, and then up and down on A, carry on to the d string, and repeat. But I see why it's called Technical difficulties, since Paul Gilbert (like most guitarists) alternate picks. I bet there are plenty of things that are a lot easier to play with alternate picking than economy picking, of course, but yeah, in this instance it's way easier with economy.
@@alext.3186 Okay, cool. What's your reasoning behind that? I would think economy picking would be more consistent. The majority of the riff is 1 note on the D string and 2 notes on the A string. With economy picking its [down up down] [down up down] [down up down] [down up down] etc. But with alternate is [down up down] [up down up[] [down up down] [up down up] etc. So less consistent in the picking and, perhaps less consistent in the phrasing and sound. That would be my assumption, at least, but I'd be interested to hear yours.
@@joclock2900 I still believe that overall sound is far more consistent with alternate picking) Yea, you are right, that in terms of stroke directions it looks consistent with economy. But I think the most important thing to get the sound right - to give that `machine-gun` feel of original record to the notes - is timing. And from the timing perspective - at such tempo! - an alternate picking will be superior due to the fact that the wrist moves like a pendulum through the entire phrase without that `economy` switches from consistent ups-n-downs to that down-down things from time to time. I believe this makes a big difference!
That's the way I play it (I just wrote a comment saying as much). This is an instance where economy picking is a lot easier. There are instances where alternate is easier, of course, but economy for this riff works great. There's no need for you to change your picking to the way it's done on this video, just be thankful that your picking method works well on such a cool song, and saves you the difficulty that most have to go through. (or change it, it you wish to share in the pain, I guess!)
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar If you just economy pick as your set method of playing, it's actually far easier for this riff, but it's tricky changing from one style to another so I wouldn't bother, if you're already used to alternate picking for a long time. Alternate and economy both have their advantages and disadvantages. Economy does make this riff pretty easy, though, and i never understood why it had such a reputation. I understand now, though, so it's good to have a better understanding of different techniques. I'm now wondering what things I find difficult, that an alternate picker would find a lot easier!
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar No, it's actually much easier. Just repeat the 1st pattern you showed and there's no changing of the slanting involved and it's also much easier to get a consistent sound. Try it and you'll be wondering why you've been playing such a simple riff in a needlessly complicated way.
It is also about physiological difficulties!! ...especially the fret hand; the size of a hand in relation to the distance of the frets. Compared to the size of your hands, with my small hands and short fingers, I need a guitar where the entire fingerboard length is about 33 cm between the 1st and 22nd fret (instead of 43 cm). You can never be a fast hurdler if you have short legs.
I recently realized how under developed my upstrokes are compared to my down strokes and alternate picking. I never understood why I could never plat lay this song to speed. Thank you so much for this in depth dive
I've seen Troy Grady cover alternate pick slanting. It blows my mind that not only can you guys flawlessly hit the right notes at those speeds, you can also change the angle of the pick at the precise moment needed. I would be so lost. Thanks for the vid
Aaaahhhggg. I've been using the downward picking slant with downward economy picking yjm style for the past year and cannot get out of this habit! Haha. Brilliant lesson. Thank you
I've never really had a problem with the picking, more so with the fretting hand. My picking technique is kind of a mix between wrist and thumb, so when I switch strings I lift a little with my wrist and pull my thumb in a little so there's less movement. I also hold the pick at a more extreme angle so its almost vertical to the strings because I thought that's how Paul Gilbert got that strong of a pick attack. But fretting hand wise I have trouble switching between strings on low string sixteenth note triplets due to them having notes on the same fret on the next string immediately
Paul Gilbert is a wild man. He needs to get together with Troy Grady. The part in the song with the alternate picked sixes is really something. He starts the ascending part with a downstroke like normal, but the way that the notes fall make him also downstroke the descending sixes across the neck and it's crazy.
Awesome intro...!!! Sometimes the most profane jokes are the best: Naming a song "technical difficulties", cause people, who´ll try playing it, will, for sure, face "technical difficulties", is genius...
This must have been the reason I was having so much trouble with the intro to walk with me in hell… and also the reason why string skipping came so naturally lol thank you so much for finally explaining to me what’s it’s called and what I was doing from technical sense… I figured it out but could never explain it until now
I play fairly well. I first learned fingerstyle Chet Atkins and use a thumbpick. I've always felt that with a thumpick, you could play faster and not have to hold the flatpick,but I won't have the intense attack.Great Video :-)
Bro, thanks for this top tier content. I'm aplying this to Nothing to say (angra). This song has an alternate picking riff really hard to play and your tips were helpful.
2:55 oh man, that hurts looking at it. And that's where I was stuck at for years thanks to my downward slanting picking technique. HOWEVER, for metal downpicking and general rhythm playing downward pickslanting is where its at for me.
Hey Man! That’s awesome! Well explained! Do you teach through Skype or something I would like some lessons from you if possible dude? Very efficient picking you have there.
Sehr gut erklärt und irre gut gespielt. Nicht einfach sich nach 30 Jahren umzugewöhnen aber es funktioniert so deutlich besser. Nur habe nie gesehen, dass Paul den Winkel des Picks ändert. Denke er berührt dann mit dem Pick die abgedämpften Saiten.
I actually don't know so much about his principles, but I guess he must apply the same technique as there is no other functional way with alternate picking. :)
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar You use and offer a technique developed by Anton Oparin and his father, the principles of which were merge into the network several years ago. And it would be correct to say that you "apply the same technique" - Oparins technique. Also it would be very good of you to make a reference to the authors of this technical concept: Anton Oparin and his father. Just a thought. :)
@@eugenevdovichenko8883 LOL No I don't! Neither have I ever had any contact to them nor "stole" a technique from someone else. Pickslanting is the logical consequence of playing the guitar with a pick. Alot of players play this way, and will in the future. Nobody "invented" this technique as nobody "invented" to put one foot before the other in order to walk. Maybe also call John Petrucci or Al Di Meola to give their picking technique back. So please stop to comment in such an unrespectful manner and think before you write!
@@eugenevdovichenko8883what do you mean 'relax' you just accused him of stealing something. Everything this guy said comes from troy grady who made it public and tons of youtubers have been teaching this content for years now. Anton actually opposes the 'pickslanting' method and doesnt use forearm rotation so you relax buddy
What about the pick depth, or how far the pick sticks out from your fingers? I feel like that has a really big impact on how hard it is to play something fast. It looks like your picks sticks out pretty far, but maybe that's just the camera angle or you did it on purpose for demonstration purposes. Either way, amazing video!
It does stick out quite a bit, but that is how everything works fine for me. At the end I would always recommend a pick depth that does not interfere with the picking motions. But I guess that can be individual. So make the picking motion itself work by adjusting the pick depth for you :)
Why it seems to me that the description of how to play it is way more complicated that it actually is? I can play the riff very clearly and correct and I am a very average guitarist. It always seemed to me pretty straightforward.
I got the first part of the riff down but those transitions are killing me... I always get caught in other strings and it's just a hot mess... Part 2? 😅😢
Hi bro thanks ❤ that's exactly what I can't get on the other title (fuzz universe, I want to play it but I can't get it with a very fast tempo, see at the minute 1m:19s until 1:26s 😅
if you see Paul Gilbert playing he play's first downpick on the 4th string and the second time he plays that string he then goes up. Check the video of him playing and you can clearly see and listen to it. ruclips.net/video/rn-wj4pRpIE/видео.html&ab_channel=FrancescoPazzaglia
You are making video how to play it right and you don’t play it right, really nice… original riffing is muted, what didn’t you mute that? Maybe your technique doesn’t allow you to do that
Answer: because it is technically difficult.
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Great lesson. But somehow is so difficult to have the attack of Paul's picking. He's such a unique guitarist 🤘
Hi man, really what an awesome video quality, plus the information and everything you teach is absolutely amazing!
Thank you so much!
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I learned this song like 20+ years ago and just ended up doing a hybrid of economy/sweep and alternate picking to get the speed. It works for me anyway 😂
Yeah Paul doesn't alt pick the whole thing either, especially the second riffy part. Lots of hammer-ons and paul-offs.
You're probably referring to directional picking.
As an economy picker, I never knew this riff was that hard when playing alternate picking, but man, it looks very tricky.
Neither way is better overall, of course,, and alternate picking will be superior in other situations (so, if that's the way you like playing, then carry on), but with economy picking, the beginning to this is just down on D string, and then up and down on A, carry on to the d string, and repeat. But I see why it's called Technical difficulties, since Paul Gilbert (like most guitarists) alternate picks.
I bet there are plenty of things that are a lot easier to play with alternate picking than economy picking, of course, but yeah, in this instance it's way easier with economy.
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With economy picking it will not sound `right` for sure.
@@alext.3186 Okay, cool. What's your reasoning behind that?
I would think economy picking would be more consistent.
The majority of the riff is 1 note on the D string and 2 notes on the A string.
With economy picking its [down up down] [down up down] [down up down] [down up down] etc.
But with alternate is [down up down] [up down up[] [down up down] [up down up] etc.
So less consistent in the picking and, perhaps less consistent in the phrasing and sound.
That would be my assumption, at least, but I'd be interested to hear yours.
I don't understand why anyone would not play it the way you described, because it's so much easier and way more consistent. 🤔
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I still believe that overall sound is far more consistent with alternate picking)
Yea, you are right, that in terms of stroke directions it looks consistent with economy.
But I think the most important thing to get the sound right - to give that `machine-gun` feel of original record to the notes - is timing.
And from the timing perspective - at such tempo! - an alternate picking will be superior due to the fact that the wrist moves like a pendulum through the entire phrase without that `economy` switches from consistent ups-n-downs to that down-down things from time to time. I believe this makes a big difference!
Perfect. Thank you. Subscribed to your Patreon just for the whole lesson 😊
Technical Difficulty is the ultimate of the alternate picking
This is the CORRECT way to play this. Good job bro.
I used economy picking all the time for this riff up to speed with a downstroke on the d string, guess i finally have to learn the full motion
That sounds Tricky
That's the way I play it (I just wrote a comment saying as much). This is an instance where economy picking is a lot easier. There are instances where alternate is easier, of course, but economy for this riff works great.
There's no need for you to change your picking to the way it's done on this video, just be thankful that your picking method works well on such a cool song, and saves you the difficulty that most have to go through. (or change it, it you wish to share in the pain, I guess!)
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar If you just economy pick as your set method of playing, it's actually far easier for this riff, but it's tricky changing from one style to another so I wouldn't bother, if you're already used to alternate picking for a long time. Alternate and economy both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Economy does make this riff pretty easy, though, and i never understood why it had such a reputation. I understand now, though, so it's good to have a better understanding of different techniques.
I'm now wondering what things I find difficult, that an alternate picker would find a lot easier!
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar No, it's actually much easier. Just repeat the 1st pattern you showed and there's no changing of the slanting involved and it's also much easier to get a consistent sound. Try it and you'll be wondering why you've been playing such a simple riff in a needlessly complicated way.
So snappy and clean, you are my hero David
Haha thank you man :)
I tried this yesterday when I got home and it is fantastic, not easy ,this lesson has let me understand pick slanting. I'm in !!!!
It is also about physiological difficulties!! ...especially the fret hand; the size of a hand in relation to the distance of the frets. Compared to the size of your hands, with my small hands and short fingers, I need a guitar where the entire fingerboard length is about 33 cm between the 1st and 22nd fret (instead of 43 cm).
You can never be a fast hurdler if you have short legs.
The extra frets on that beautiful guitar. Wow 🔥
That was great! Thank you so much! Been having trouble with this track for a while.
Fantastic lesson, for a killer tune. Thank you very much
DUDE! Thanks a ton. I now understand the trick and can play significantly better in tempo. Thank you!
The intro is a masterpiece ! Thanks for the explains !
Großartig erklärt! Nicht nur für den Song fördernd.
I recently realized how under developed my upstrokes are compared to my down strokes and alternate picking. I never understood why I could never plat lay this song to speed. Thank you so much for this in depth dive
I've seen Troy Grady cover alternate pick slanting. It blows my mind that not only can you guys flawlessly hit the right notes at those speeds, you can also change the angle of the pick at the precise moment needed. I would be so lost. Thanks for the vid
You can as well, just a matter of learning the motion :)
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar thanks for the encouragement man!
@@theophany1770 There's a video by BERNTH that has exercises so that you're used to the downward slanting motion
It is not so difficult when you try to do this. But it is difficult to understand what you must exactly to do
The whole point of Troy's research is that anyone can do it, tho, with the right amount of deliberate practice
Great video. What pick model and thickness are you using?
Why are you making me think I can play this song? Love it. Great explanation.
Love this, cover the main part of scafied in this way would be great. Thanks
Aaaahhhggg. I've been using the downward picking slant with downward economy picking yjm style for the past year and cannot get out of this habit! Haha. Brilliant lesson. Thank you
really awesome technic. i stuck this all time now time to fix this . thanks david.superb
I've never really had a problem with the picking, more so with the fretting hand. My picking technique is kind of a mix between wrist and thumb, so when I switch strings I lift a little with my wrist and pull my thumb in a little so there's less movement. I also hold the pick at a more extreme angle so its almost vertical to the strings because I thought that's how Paul Gilbert got that strong of a pick attack. But fretting hand wise I have trouble switching between strings on low string sixteenth note triplets due to them having notes on the same fret on the next string immediately
Good lesson but please give the credits due to Troy Grady!
Paul Gilbert is a wild man. He needs to get together with Troy Grady. The part in the song with the alternate picked sixes is really something. He starts the ascending part with a downstroke like normal, but the way that the notes fall make him also downstroke the descending sixes across the neck and it's crazy.
Awesome intro...!!! Sometimes the most profane jokes are the best: Naming a song "technical difficulties", cause people, who´ll try playing it, will, for sure, face "technical difficulties", is genius...
dang! its all in the technique. just have to practice that everyday for a year and i should be ready to play the first part lol
thanks a lot im doing this for my grade 1 exam
This must have been the reason I was having so much trouble with the intro to walk with me in hell… and also the reason why string skipping came so naturally lol thank you so much for finally explaining to me what’s it’s called and what I was doing from technical sense… I figured it out but could never explain it until now
God I love Walk with me in Hell.
Nice lesson! I like the tone your getting, did you keep the stock Tone Zone in the bridge?
Yes, it's great :)
Amazing lesson, thanks for sharing :)
amazing tone
I play fairly well. I first learned fingerstyle Chet Atkins and use a thumbpick. I've always felt that with a thumpick, you could play faster and not have to hold the flatpick,but I won't have the intense attack.Great Video :-)
Thanks for the instruction 😊.
P.S. That’s a really cool Ibanez - it’s very JEM-ish 😎
Bro, thanks for this top tier content. I'm aplying this to Nothing to say (angra). This song has an alternate picking riff really hard to play and your tips were helpful.
That's great!
I'm not a guitar player but this is Interesting stuff to watch.
Man ...love the extra frets u have😂
You make it look so smooth and easy. How do you hold your pick for gallop style picking?
Same way :) take a look at the bleed video;)
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar Thanks. I've played for over 30 years. I got some relearning to do. Hehaheha.
Thank you very much 🎉🎉🎉
2:55 oh man, that hurts looking at it. And that's where I was stuck at for years thanks to my downward slanting picking technique. HOWEVER, for metal downpicking and general rhythm playing downward pickslanting is where its at for me.
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Good job man thanks
Bro, I Thought this was gonna be some kind of click bait. Awesome video! Please make more content like this!!
Oh, you did make a video on this, I love it :)
Very like this kind of content!
Hey Man! That’s awesome! Well explained!
Do you teach through Skype or something I would like some lessons from you if possible dude?
Very efficient picking you have there.
Good lord. What a right hand.
Nice one. Now explain to us what you think of Matteo Mancusos, äh, picking techniques 🙂
Great lesson
Sehr gut erklärt und irre gut gespielt. Nicht einfach sich nach 30 Jahren umzugewöhnen aber es funktioniert so deutlich besser. Nur habe nie gesehen, dass Paul den Winkel des Picks ändert. Denke er berührt dann mit dem Pick die abgedämpften Saiten.
Genau!
After mastering technical difficulties you sort of got a degree in shredding 😅
Quality content right here !
David, how do you handle palm-muting when your forearm needs to lift during the downstroke escape passages ?
another great question that is covered on my patreon :D
@@DavidSchneiderGuitarThe patreon page is gone.
@@randybuttford4958I can still get to it, haven't heard the problem from someone else... have you tried again?
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar Another 404 error. Maybe it's because I'm on mobile. Good to hear no one else has had a problem.
@@randybuttford4958 let me know if it still doesn't work :)
Troy Grady covers this and more... as you know...
What are you running through?
Very good lesson bro !
thank you man!
So clean english! Nice
Killer vid!!! Thanks so much!
Very nice guitar. What is the model?
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why use alternate picking when you can use economy picking?
It sounds different man.
I love side dots.
The last part of TD is the most difficultiest
Another hard song that uses the same string hopping is Dokken Mr Scary.
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I like it my bro
dude, this might sound weird but even your fingers move the ways that Paul Gilbert's do... that blows my mind
Similar to what Steve Vai is doing as Jack Butler in Crossroads
Arrrrg!!!! Just cannot do that pick angle! But then again, i don't practice...no time.
classic :D
You use principles of Anton Oparin alternate picking technique, wright?
I actually don't know so much about his principles, but I guess he must apply the same technique as there is no other functional way with alternate picking. :)
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar You use and offer a technique developed by Anton Oparin and his father, the principles of which were merge into the network several years ago. And it would be correct to say that you "apply the same technique" - Oparins technique.
Also it would be very good of you to make a reference to the authors of this technical concept: Anton Oparin and his father. Just a thought. :)
@@eugenevdovichenko8883 LOL
No I don't!
Neither have I ever had any contact to them nor "stole" a technique from someone else.
Pickslanting is the logical consequence of playing the guitar with a pick.
Alot of players play this way, and will in the future.
Nobody "invented" this technique as nobody "invented" to put one foot before the other in order to walk.
Maybe also call John Petrucci or Al Di Meola to give their picking technique back.
So please stop to comment in such an unrespectful manner and think before you write!
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar Relax) I said everything I wanted to. Good luck.
@@eugenevdovichenko8883what do you mean 'relax' you just accused him of stealing something. Everything this guy said comes from troy grady who made it public and tons of youtubers have been teaching this content for years now. Anton actually opposes the 'pickslanting' method and doesnt use forearm rotation so you relax buddy
Didn’t Troy Grady explain pick slanting like five years ago?
What about the pick depth, or how far the pick sticks out from your fingers? I feel like that has a really big impact on how hard it is to play something fast.
It looks like your picks sticks out pretty far, but maybe that's just the camera angle or you did it on purpose for demonstration purposes.
Either way, amazing video!
It does stick out quite a bit, but that is how everything works fine for me. At the end I would always recommend a pick depth that does not interfere with the picking motions. But I guess that can be individual.
So make the picking motion itself work by adjusting the pick depth for you :)
it's irrelevant and up to personal preference
Why it seems to me that the description of how to play it is way more complicated that it actually is? I can play the riff very clearly and correct and I am a very average guitarist. It always seemed to me pretty straightforward.
I've got longer fingers than paul so fretting is OK but i can't get the picking hand down at all.
I got the first part of the riff down but those transitions are killing me... I always get caught in other strings and it's just a hot mess... Part 2? 😅😢
That's all covered on my Patreon :)
is that a follow the reaper poster in the back?
Hell yeah, plus hatebreeder and something wild!
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar that is so sick, keep rocking man!
Hi bro thanks ❤
that's exactly what I can't get on the other title (fuzz universe, I want to play it but I can't get it with a very fast tempo, see at the minute 1m:19s until 1:26s
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Great!
@@DavidSchneiderGuitar you can do a video you explain it ? Thank you bro
Just question bro if you want, to find this nice tone high gain and nice sound, you use a kemper profiler on this sound ?
Ich hab eher ein Problem mit den Triolen, die danach kommen auf der tiefen E-Saite.
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I can barely play the notes fast let alone look at which way I am slanting LOL.
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You have too much yaw. There is a buzz induced from imperfections in the pick. Pick perpendicular to the string.
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The only secret to achieve mastery is to not use force. Force and tensions in muscles prevents consistent flow and therefore speed.
Sounds ok - but you're not muting at all - which is a huge part of the metal dog/TD sound.
In other words, don't play and pick it like Marty Friedman, if you are not Mary Friedman 😁
Yes, but Paul doesn’t use pick slanting..
Couldn't you just start with an upstoke?
:D sry
Anyone else see the one hair he missed on his beard there?
if you see Paul Gilbert playing he play's first downpick on the 4th string and the second time he plays that string he then goes up.
Check the video of him playing and you can clearly see and listen to it.
ruclips.net/video/rn-wj4pRpIE/видео.html&ab_channel=FrancescoPazzaglia
Should have said "this is why you're having technical difficulties" , or "this will cause you technical difficulties" 😆
This video keep showing in my feed, idk why
I tested your patreon link from here in Australia on my desktop and it gives a 404 error. The link in the description has been shortened by youtube.
when i manually add "erguitar" on the end of the shortened link it works.
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You are making video how to play it right and you don’t play it right, really nice… original riffing is muted, what didn’t you mute that? Maybe your technique doesn’t allow you to do that
He is muting it.
could you buy me that guitar pretty please? THanks :D