The 3 Guitar Picking Techniques I Use Most - Alternate, Hybrid, and Directional- by Shawn Tubbs
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- I made this video to give some insight into how I approach picking technique after receiving many requests.
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Killing it as usual!!
Nice vid, Shawn. I’ve been working on this stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Such blazing technique man!! Love how honest you are with how your journey got you where you are at in your playing. You are fast becoming my favorite guitar player/teacher
Love your playing! Enjoy the clowning around, you'll be getting a bigger following over time! Keep up the great video's!😁
Shawn thank you so much for getting this info out there. You have got to be one of the humblest guitar players out there. I realized when I started watching your videos, is that it is way cooler to be good at phrasing than it is to play 16th triplets up and down the fretboard. I have learned so much from your videos. Now go ahead a release an instructional book on how you approach the pentatonic scale. You have a unique way on how to make a simple scale sound cool with some added notes and good phrasing.
Hi. lm learning a lot from you. Great lessons!! Thank you so much.
Love this guy guitar licks style... amazing .
Great control dig ya playing. Helped me out heaps
Glad it helped!
all and all your still an amazing guitar player very tasteful and your phrasing is right on Shawn
Hey Shawn. This video reminds me of something I was told back when I was but a young pup just starting out. I was taken under the wing by an older musician who played guitar, bass, drums, keys, horns, etc, all as if they were his main axe. One day he saw me practicing a specific technique and pointed out that if all I did was strive for technique, all I would arrive at was that one technique, whereas if I aimed instead for precision in executing my musicical ideas, I would automatically gain the technique I needed.
Now, I’m in no way saying that practicing certain techniques is a bad thing. On the contrary, trying to master techniques is a big tool (Lord knows I should do more of it), but it isn’t the end all/be all. The goal is to me musical, not a technician. The whole point is to communicate musically, not to show off.
I think your video demonstrates this wonderfully. In order words, do what works for you. Experiment with different approaches as this will only expand your options, but don’t ever feel like you’re tied to one way of doing any particular thing.
Thanks, Man!
Another great lesson with tremendous info from you! I love the fact telling me, that even with "unperfect" picking skills one can be a great player as you are. The main thing is, that it should be musical. - Confirmed! I love your playing and your music and the way you are teaching is wonderful. Your honesty about your own playing / learning is great. Thank you!
Shawn,
Your picking technique is great. Quite frankly one of the reasons your licks in my opinion are so difficult to duplicate are the picking patterns. Not that you need to hear this from me, but you are an elite guitar player. I love trying to learn those “outside licks” . Most often my picking gets tangled in knots trying. Upward sweeping on 2 notes and then the string skipping; its just madness!!! Thanks for the work you do.
Thank You .... :) Very Cool lesson.... You show me the way... Love You :)
I learned you are a beast, well I already knew that. Great job.
Thanks Shawn! :)
Thank you master!!!👍👍👍
Nice video Shawn: This Friedman growls !! Cheers \m/
Love it good stuff
Great stuff thank u
😄 friend of mine once dined with Jeff Porcaro, who didn’t think much of his own technique - which he demonstrated by drawing up a roll on the restaurant table with the knife and fork. Now, why did I get to think of that 👍🏻
Very good work :)
Don't apologize for posting these lesson videos instead of gear demos, your lesson videos are great! I'm able to play most of the "outside" licks in your lessons when slowed down a bit, but I have trouble playing them at your speed, and I think it's largely because directional picking does not come naturally to me at all! I keep wanting to alternate pick. Hard to teach an old dog new tricks, but I'll work on it. Anyway, thanks for this lesson (and the very cool example lick in it)!
Thank you for sharing how you have developed your own style of blending picking techniques to produce the MUSIC that you do so well. Getting exercises to sound great is one thing, but it's not MUSIC, imho. Your riffs, lol, sound great, and they are unmistakably you!!
I've been working really hard on proper picking techniques (shout out to Troy Grady and Ben Eller - definitely check them out if this is something you want to work on with your playing) but it's so nice to know that there are pros who aren't as proficient in this area that still get clean tones. Great vid, I love the perspective!
I slant my pic, but do it outward instead of inward. Thanks for the style rundown Shawn!
you are a really good guitarist and get some freaking great tones,you are now on my hate list!!! Byiiieeee!!!
brilliant video.
Thanks so much Andy!!
I came across your channel kind of by accident, and got sucked in by your great playing and humble personality. Being a super shy guy, your videos give me some hope that maybe, just maybe... one day :) Amazing, thank you!
Thanks so much for the kind words Ian! I've got a lot of dragons and demons I struggle with daily as a guitar player so I get it.
Very useful, thank you. Just 4 Little nuggets from many:
1. When Selecting picking technique, consider not just “speed” but the tonal differences between them. (My thought: Ideally you could use any technique you want, choosing only what has the best tone for your ears).
2. Also consider what notes the picking technique accents naturally.
3. Some people can progress to amazing (I.e. Shawn Tubbs) levels without necessarily just running picking exercises, but focusing on learning licks and working them up to speed. This is huge for me, because I HATE running rote exercises, not just because they are boring but even more I important;y is that you are teaching your fingers to play robotically. And even though you can I learnt that, I just do not want to go near roboticism.
4. Your pull offs and hammer-ons are so crisp, it sounds closer to picking, which is something I need to work on.
I DID learn something from this video; but nothing about your lick/riffing (riff/licking?!?!) which is (still) better than mine. Thanks Shawn! :D
Tom T. Hall the Nashville songwriter has a picture frame on his desk that says "Do what you do." Your picking reminded me of this saying Shawn. You "Do what you do" and it works for you. Every single one of us watching your videos is different and we ALL "Do what WE do". I'm guessing each of us has our own favorite method of picking and some of us are fast, some are half fast, and some like me will NEVER be fast! But I " Do what I do" and that's who and what I am. I can alternate, hybrid and directional pick but not at mind-blowing speeds like you Shawn. That's why you're in Nashville and I'm not. Thanks for being you and letting us know how you "Do what YOU do". p.s.- I still think you're from another planet.
Touchingly honest. 👍🏼🤘🏼✌🏻
Ok Shawn when knew you in SoCal i never knew you were this funny 🤪. Riff i mean lick!
It’s interesting seeing someone go about the way of attacking the strings thinking about the sound they get out of it and what’s physically confortable for them. Taking classes my teacher always corrects me when I don’t alternate pick something. I get it, sure, in the context of mindful practice. But sometimes it just feels better doing it some other way. So the take away for me is not to put technique over other things, but add it according to necessity and context.
YESSSS!!!!! I became "Shawn Addicted" and waited for this video!!!! THX Shawn! By the way, I am a professional guitarist and not ashamed to say that you totally improved and renewed my playing after few weeks. God Bless you (greetings from Israel).
Thanks so much!! I appreciate you tuning in all the way from Isreal!!
Shawn Tubbs its not like we have to hike all the way there, Shawn, and swim the rest...its literally just lifting a finger, and we're there..
...Cheers, from Down Under!
What's funny about this sort of thing is that we learn it while we're just... playing guitar. Then after the fact we try to identify what we're actually doing lol.
Shawn , amazing chops. What gauge picks do you use for electric guitar ? .
Haven't tuned in a while ! Great vid.. I do the same thing! Try to find a music solution ! Hope all is well !
If you would just incorporate more Floyde Rose dive bombs and wah pedals you could cover up all of the not so perfect techniques like I do. This is why I am considered a master of the 6 string journey. I could share more but then why give away my secrets. I often share my wisdom with Michael Britt when I advise him to do leg kicks on stage in overly tight spandex to reinvent country music all together. They could be Lonedragon vs Lonestar and probably punch out several number 1's.
Hahaha!! Perfect!
So heavy and throaty💪💪💪
your phrasing is so good precisely because you don't alternate pick!
Ugh, your tone in this is SO good! Meat-n-potatoes, but damn, it just sings!
Great video as always, Shawn. Love this channel. Keep the content coming!
interesting and helpful.. being a STRICT alternate picker (or any other technique) is only good if it comes out musical
Yes to the fingers only lesson. Yes, please. Yes. Do that. Please. Thanks.
Wicked how U get it to sound like that. I been playing it over and over again it sounds not write ha are U doing the same thing as when U slow it down thank u
Great video! Thinking of buying a hawk pick like yours and was wondering bevel yay/nay?
Thanks! It's to each his own. I tend to go with no bevel but it's because I'm so used to Fender Heavy 351 picks.
@@ShawnTubbs yeah that's what i figured I wanted too. Just ordered the t1 without bevels hope it feels fender heavy-extra heavyish.
Amazing vid Shawn! Can I ask - when you pick, do you pick lightly and feel relaxed, or do you feel like you have to attack/bite into the strings with the pick and kinda grab the string first?
Thanks very much! I'm probably somewhere in the middle because I like to play with dynamics as much as possible but I do try not to become tense.
@@ShawnTubbs cheers man! I'm fascinated with what Tim Pierce said about Nashville session guys picking really lightly and cranking the amps during studio session so was interested to know how you went about it too. Thanks again :)
Hi Shawn, Have you tried 9.5?
same
Shawn, I love your face buddy! What that really means is that I appreciate you responding to requests, this is helpful.
When listening to your Demolition album and watching your gabillion videos, you deploy other little devices or techniques to get the tone you want. Not necessarily picking techniques but like a skip in your rhythm when soloing etc. This was really helpful though!
PLEASE USE 'THE DUDE' NEXT TIME!!!!!!!
I learned absolutely nothing from this other than ... my riffing licking is much weaker than your riffing licking. Thanks.
Hey Christian, I get why you would say that, these might be too remedial for you, but these were a few nuggets I found very useful from this video. Just sharing with hope it might be helpful:
1. When Selecting picking technique, consider not just “speed” but the tonal differences between them. (My thought: Ideally you could use any technique you want, choosing only what has the best tone for your ears).
2. Also consider what notes the picking technique accents naturally.
3. Some people can progress to amazing (I.e. Shawn Tubbs) levels without necessarily just running picking exercises, but focusing on learning licks and working them up to speed. This is huge for me, because I HATE running rote exercises, not just because they are boring but even more I important;y is that you are teaching your fingers to play robotically. And even though you can I learnt that, I just do not want to go near roboticism.
4. Your pull offs and hammer-ons are so crisp, it sounds closer to picking, which is something I need to work on.
@@ShiningEyeBrigade Not at all, he was right on and so are you. I am just a retired guy noodling on my couch in the basement. I was trying to be witty. Cheers.
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Shawn have you heard this guy named Marshall Harrison? Dude is a monster on guitar. He’s all into sweeping and hybrid picking. Most of it I can’t comprehend. Curious what you think of him
I'll check it out!!
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As a total noob/hack, it used to be that hearing or watching world-class players was highly discouraging for me. Beginning with your interview at the "TrueTone Lounge" in 2017 (ua-cam.com/video/qiTjo96hS4U/v-deo.html), you have majorly demystified the process of growing as a guitar player. Thanks for these more informal-style videos. Inspiring and helpful.
My picking SUCKS. Nowadays a play fingerstyle. Mine hands are going through a change since I’ve gotten older... Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching Kenn!
Thanks! You justified my cheating LOL! (On guitar obviously)
Sorry to have found this video so long after it was posted, but a couple of quick points. Shawn, I'm probably twice your age and possess a tiny fraction of your chops, if that. I will tell you right now that you have tremendous picking chops, and here's the main reason why. Just watching you pick in all your videos, your right hand looks extremely efficient, and is not tied to one way of picking or another. You use what's necessary at the time.
Unfortunately, my own picking, for various reasons, never followed that kind of streamlining when I was younger and resulted in extremely severe tendonitis a couple of years ago. I was forced to stop playing completely for about 9 months, and now I'm painfully trying to retrieve a small portion of what I could do. Luckily, I was not a professional, and so didn't depend on the guitar for my income, but please, whatever you do - and everybody else too - don't risk injury. It comes at a high price.
The purpose of technique is to solve a problem. Once the problem is solved, technique is no longer necessary.
is that the Revv D20 direct?
Yes, that is my D20 direct into my Apogee Quartet.
@@ShawnTubbs jebus..thats good
Fender heavy Pick ?
I use a lot of different picks but for the most part, I used Fender Heavy Picks.
Shit yeah! Your shiney new Tele Deluxe is waaay a nicer than 'Berts beaten-to-shithouse one! Look, I know it's different courses for different horses, blah blah etcetera-rama... but, C'mon... Bert's looks they attached it to 20 feet of chain behind the family car..and went on a cross country Griswald family holiday. 😁
But I will not give up :-)
I´ll never get that fast :-(
I'm far more interested in your left-hand picking technique, show us that one
Alternate pick it all or you're a NERD!
Well, you're a big NERDZILLA!
Ohh..get a room, you two! Hahaha.
@@lueysixty-six7300 hahahaha
Stealing killer ideas. thx