Tone Taster Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 The Over All Form is like thishttp://www.rorystuart.com/photos/Rory_picking.jpg Here is a very detailed textual analysis by Tuck Andress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Hey yZe! Where have you been hiding? Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone Taster Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 Lotsa gear-gasms A/B between a Fender Tonemaster for Clean and Mojave Scorpion for dirt USing the MJM blues devil through the Tonemaster for the Fusion tone I think I have finally found some amps I am at least 90-95% on - and that's good enough for me Sold the '95 PRS and am getting a Howard Roberts Fusion for the jazz stuff Upgrading my strat w/van zandt PUPS and a callaham trem block WIll be building the yZe Axe as soon as I can get the funds up Almost finished writing my second gtr instruction book of 3 in which all three will be self published at once the instant the 3rd one is completed Lat-ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Red 67 Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Big Red's Ride Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Iverson Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Welcome back! I thought you'd moved to the Independent Republic of Tanzania or something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone Taster Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 Welcome back! I thought you'd moved to the Independent Republic of Tanzania or something! Nope just in the pre-14th amendment body politic of the Florida republic !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fantasticsound Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 I know some jazz afficiandos call George a "white" musician, but that can't be his arm! Welcome back, yZe. I'll have to check the link out tomorrow. It's easiest to find me on Facebook. Neil Bergman Soundclick fntstcsnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MILLO Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 When I started playing, I grabbed th pick like that. Of course, I strated playing fingerstyle, but tried to play metal on my classical... well, it wasn't even my guitar, but a neighbor's. Anyway, point is when I started playing in bands I noticed how my right-hand thumb always hurt after rehearsals. After high-school I pretty much stopped playing electric. Many years later I retaught myself and moved away from that. Now, everytime I get a student that holds it like that, they have the same issue: the cartilage and cushioning material in that thumb joint starts to hurt. In this technique, more than others, relaxation is an extremely important factor. "Without music, life would be a mistake." --from 'Beyond Good and Evil', by Friedrich Nietzsche My MySpace Space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruupi Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I know some people are more indestructable than others, but that hand position looks like it is inviting tendonitis. Is he really hitting the string with the pick at that extreme angle, its really hard to tell from the videos. I love Georges tone however he gets it though. My soundclick site: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=397188 My YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/gruupi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rampdog Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Welcome back Yze... Good to see Florida is still represented. Thanks for the Vid... You ready for another summer? If it ain't fun...why do it...? http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=778394&content=music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tone Taster Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 Yup, I have noticed some tightness trying this - and i am still working on the relaxation factor There have been incidents of injury, so be advised Yup,RD - hopefully no harricuns this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorSilver Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 I also held the pick like that when starting out. My first real jazz guitar teacher made me give it up for a more conventional way of holding the pick, because most of us in his jazz guitar class preferred bringing acoustic guitars to class instead of electric-and-amp (it was a college course - sometimes we got lazy about lugging amps across campus). He and the other students had trouble hearing me until he "fixed" my pick holding technique once and for all. It's taken me several more years after that to gradually figure out that one's grip of the pick should not be constant - that it's actually ok to loosen the grip and move it a bit at times, and that it is actually easier to play faster with looser grip than with a tighter one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miroslav Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 Mmmm...in the video clip, Benson doens't seem to have his hand & pick twisted up like that...he's holding it rather straight-on and perpendicular to the strings. His hand look pretty relaxed and loose....which looks like a fairly normal picking style. miroslav - miroslavmusic.com "Just because it happened to you, it doesn't mean it's important." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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