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Post by joachim on Jun 9, 2014 1:14:28 GMT -6
I have been watching some basic online lessons while I am waiting for my hand to get better. I particularly like a beginner's Blues/rock course by Lisa Pursell, which introduces hybrid picking very early on. So I am wondering if you guys use hybrid regularly in the BYCU songs, for example for double or triple stops, or for some of the arpeggiated chords?
Watching the first part of the course, I realize I should have spend more time on a beginner's course like that to consolidate my basis - otherwise I am afraid I will just learn to play 20 BYCU songs by memorizing where to put my fingers down and when to strum, but not really being able to use the material in my style. I also want to spend more time on BCYCU to really get to know the different triads and voicings, which seems essential for BRYCU.
Joachim
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Post by TommyD on Jun 9, 2014 4:41:56 GMT -6
Hi Joachim,
Occasionally I play using only my fingers. I'm not as good at finger picking so I force myself to do it now and then. Hopefully I'll get better at it. Normally I play holding the pick with my thumb and forefinger and use my other fingers (mostly my middle finger) to pluck stings as well. I've working on playing octaves in the Jazzin' the Blues book, and sometimes I'll pluck the octaves with the pick and my middle finger rather than strumming the stings.
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Post by jack1982 on Jun 9, 2014 6:09:48 GMT -6
I tried hybrid picking with Blue Sixths, for playing the notes on non-adjacent strings. It had a nice, slightly different sound to it. I was also fooling around with picking the single-note lines and then tucking the pick between two fingers and fingerpicking both notes on the non-adjacent strings. That had a nice sound to it too, but in the end I guess I decided it sounded just fine to play it the normal way.
I've played a bit of classical guitar and so have at least some basic fingerpicking skills, and I've got the book "Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar" by Arnie Berle and Mark Galbo, but I don't have an acoustic guitar (though of course that could be played on electric) and I think I'm working on about 5 different Blues You Can Use books right now, so that will just have to wait until later. I've always been blown away by the fingerpicking guys who can play both the guitar part and the vocal line simultaneously, but I've got several years of work ahead of me just to become a halfway decent blues player, so that's one of those "maybe someday" things for me.
But if you enjoy the hybrid picking stuff then by all means go for it - it's quite common with blues players I've noticed, and certainly adds a whole extra dimension to your playing.
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Post by cunningr on Jun 9, 2014 14:04:25 GMT -6
I use some hybrid picking, but I am not very good at it. I am a member of active melody and several licks use hybrid picking, Eric Clapton is one artist that uses a hybrid lick. I wouldn't call hybrid picking a basic skill either, but trying to develop the skill early on at least a little shouldn't be a bad thing either. I live in southern Spain where flamenco guitarist are everywhere and watching the finger skills will make your jaw drop. However, my friend plays flamenco and gets lost with a pick and thinks learning the blues to be heard. I guess it's all perspective.
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