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Picking
Feb 4, 2014 23:29:38 GMT -6
Post by fmadave on Feb 4, 2014 23:29:38 GMT -6
When playing a song should I be focussing on down strokes on the beat or whatever feels comfortable? I usually go through and mark down & up strokes above the notes to help when playing, just wondering if this is necessary or anal?
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Post by grampalerxst on Feb 5, 2014 7:49:21 GMT -6
When playing a song should I be focussing on down strokes on the beat or whatever feels comfortable? I usually go through and mark down & up strokes above the notes to help when playing, just wondering if this is necessary or anal? This is just my opinion, and it, along with a dollar bill, can be exchanged for four quarters on a good day ... To a degree it depends on what exactly you are doing. I don't think there is a hard and fast right answer to this that covers all possibilities. In general I believe it's most effective in the broadest number of situations to use down picks on the pulse (the start of each beat beat). While I'm working throught BYCU I'm trying to stick to alternate picking where on-pulse notes (notes that have a "number" in the count) always get a down stroke and the notes that occur on an "and" (or the "a" in swing eighths) always get upstrokes. But so far the smallest not division I've worked up to is eighth notes. Triplets present a wrinkle to that philosophy and since I haven't hit any yet, I haven't really thought it through. Unless there's specific guidance provided I'd be inclined to experiment with it and pick what feels right (between picking triplets striclty alternating, d-u-d-u-d-u, or doing d-u-d-d-u-d to keep down picks on the pulse). At the same time, in working through BRYCU, the guidance there so far has been to use all downpicking on the eighth notes (shuffle beats), and in that material I've been following that guidance. I don't think there's anything mandatory about making notations for the right hand, but I don't think it's "anal" either. It's good to think through what you're about to do and a making a few notations can be quite helpful. I haven't done it yet with BYCU, but in the past I've done that sort of thing, not only up versus down, but giving myself cues if there's a string skip or something (I usually follow the note durations more closely than the tab)..
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