doing some research for my PG video, I love Pauls lessons & makes alot of sense But musically for me it hasn't helped because i can't play that Fast. wish i could
he's one of the BEST guitar teachers. if you look at how other guitar playes teach they have a real problem articulating. if you watch yngwie malmsteen lessons they're basically him mumbling "yeah u do this thing" and don't explain clearly lol
Paul Gilbert is the most sensible instructor of this kind of stuff out there. He is almost the only one who says anything about the left hand. No matter how fast you can pick, if your left hand can't fret the notes as fast as the right can pick them, then Bob's not your uncle.
1:46 ''After 8 years of that...'' I've been playing for 2 years, and I find tedious to re-visit and change my technique. A true example of discipline and improvement in Paul.
I had a similar issue to Paul’s, however mine went on for 15 years! I used to hold my pick by sandwiching it flat between my first finger and thumb, and to get the angle my arm was pretty much parallel to the strings. Sitting down I was fine, but when I played standing up it looked like my guitar was choking me lol. After 15 years I finally realized how odd my picking was and began changing it. It took a long time for it to feel comfortable, almost like I was relearning how to play. Once I got the hang of it, anything I struggled to play or couldn’t play at all started becoming more achievable. Holding the pick badly was my biggest hinderance, and fixing that made me feel more confident. I definitely recommend to anyone at least make an attempt to adapt your technique. It can do wonders if you really give it a chance!
The first alternate picking exercise 0:10 was printed in music notation with Paul in an ad for Musicians Institute in a 1985-86 Guitar World mag with Vai on the cover. I saved that mag not only for Vai's lesson, but for this exact alternate picking lesson. This lesson, along with one particular warm up exercise in Steve's original 10 Hour Workout that appeared in Guitar World (Steve on cover after he joined Whitesnake) and the aforementioned mag with Pablo are still right here on my theory and all things music (from Machaut to modern music) shelf. Timeless and priceless. (As are Paul's instructional videos from the 1980s and 1990s. Buy them... even if you don't listen to Paul. He's a great teacher when it comes to pick dynamics.)
Watching this, knowing Paul's philosophy on picking nowadays is hilarious. He'd most likely tell you to forget what he said in this video. Not about the tone part, but about "For fast things I prefer alternate picking"
Getting old really sucks. Paul still plays like this in some of his instagram videos but not in his recent music or instructionals. His view on music changed quite a bit after 2010, i much prefer pre-2010 PG over the recent one. But hey, unfortunately people get old and change, his hearing loss isn't helping either. As a huge fan since the 80s i feel "betrayed" by his stylistic change, and it's a shame.
@@livingbeing1113As a musician, his musical expression is the only thing that really matters and he doesn't owe anyone anything. I can see how you'd be disappointed, but he never betrayed anyone by changing his style.
Such an awesome demonstration of picking technique with an emphasis on tone above all else. Thank you Paul Gilbert. You’ve always been a Huge inspiration.
If anyone on earth knows how to move the pick it is Paul Gilbert. Paul is clear on concepts and this is one of the many reasons he is the awesome technician that he is. This is good information.
True story about Paul Gilbert, circa 1986-87 at GIT: We heard that Paul Gilbert would be giving a workshop on speed picking. Of course at that time, Metal was huge, and everybody wanted to learn how to pick as fast as Gilbert. The auditorium was packed. Gilbert came out, went through this long build-up spiel. Finally, pulls out a power drill! Attached to the bit are three picks. He guns the drill to full speed, and applied the spinning picks to the string... It was hilarious! Of course he was making a point about gimmicky playing. But it was pretty funny. I'm still amazed nobody has tried to market something like that. A handheld power picker....
His sense of humor is on point. His old website was pretty cool, wish he had kept it. There were some cool tour stories there. Renting vans across the desert. The stories from when we were broke are always the coolest.
Paul is really a great teacher. I remeber starting out long time ago with his intructional vhs, really good information for exercising alternate picking. Paul is the man!
He really thinks about every aspect, no matter how small it seems. I have learned so much from him and am sure I will continue to have much to learn from him.
Most musicians tune down their instruments a whole step, so the strings get easier to bend. Learning in default E tuning would be the optimal, but at some point it gets too difficult, so damn it LOL
+Ridge lol Paul)) I think you should admit that in Alternate picking Anton Oparin is better. And in his lessons he explains much more details about changing modes that you don't even say anything about, about training muscles, about systems of building stamina, about speen workout, about everything... You're just griddy son of a bitch Paul!!!!!
You will. Just keep at it (if you want to play that style, of course). Not everyone 'shreds' I started out with Metal and Blues... Now I'm into Jazz... Just depends on what you want to do. The important thing is to enjoy yourself.
Paul is a treasure to aspiring guitarists everywhere. So humble and open to explain his techniques.One of the few guys who breaks down his own songs for others to learn. Love this dude
I feel like I can go faster I don't get good tone. Should the string be palm muted at all? What about thumb touching string, kinda like perpetual small pinch harmonics. I'm guessing all this is bad.
The Master of speed picking....he's so perfect !....ad just with a light modification of pick direction his sound is totally different. Learning speed picking with Paul is Learning with intelligence because he always explain all the détails, from the big to the tiny one....Thanx a lot Paul.
dont try to hold your pick like anyone else, just do what feels comfortable to you, as long as its functional, and if you want proof of that look at how marty friedman holds his
fghrty vbnfgh there are great teachers who teach the opposite with concern to pick angle ......I take all lessons with a grain of salt in the respect that I’ll try it and if it is what I like it’ll stick, if I dont like it for what I play I’ll set it aside for another time
7:07 - don't do what a lot of beginners do. Well, Herman Li does this all the time, his two hands are totally unsynchronized on the fast stuff. I guess he's still a beginner, just a sped-up one...
Petrucci does it too.😁 Well, not everyone has Gilbert's timing, synchronization and dexterity, in fact nobody has when it comes to shredding and alternate picking. Except for Anton Oparin.
This is great! In these days you hear a lot of guys talking about playing fast as a bad thing, be he doesnt care. I LIKE BIGGER, ROCK AND LOUDER! He is an inspiration.
There's something called economy picking and thats what he means by a better and more efficient ways of picking.But economy picking does not give you emotion and soul alternate picking can give you.
6:09 Paul taught that alt picking practice technique in the early/mid 1980s in GIT (now MI) advertisements in Guitar Player & Guitar World (plus, it was in one of his 3 1980s guitar instruction vids. But that little technique in the GIT ad was a life changer. I still have one copy of the ad in a GW from 1986!
@minivirus I agree, it's all in what you like. Pick attack is often overlooked as a way to get different sounds from your playing. I prefer a cleaner pick attack with not so much angle but it's all personal preference.
He sure is. Besides, I love how he explains everything so clearly and tries to convey as much information as possible in as little time as he can. Besides, he always knows what he's talking about. PG is just such an inspiration.
Great lesson Paul! You are very clear in your instructions and break it down into precise sections. This is getting me closer to getting that electric that I want :)
Good stuff! I already do all this in my playing, but they are things I've learned to do almost instinctively. This lesson is great because I'm starting to teach a couple of people how to play like this, and dissecting, interpreting, and explaining techniques to others isn't something I'm very good at yet.
I was literally taught the exact "backwards" pick grip Paul showed in the beginning, and I played like that for YEARS! I had good overall control, and was decent at pulling artificial harmonics, string skipping, and trills, but I tensed up during faster pieces, and had to readjust my grip in order to pull squeals spontaneously. I used to look at my buddy's grip, and every other guitarist's pick grip and think that was such a weird "backwards" way to play lol. I honestly think it was about 9-10 years ago when I first encountered this video and listened to Paul talking about having to undo this method of picking, and relearning how to alternative pick, I decided to do the same (and in turn realized how much of a douche my original teacher was lmao). Once I acclimated to the more conventional "correct" pick technique, I noticed my overall wrist control increase, and I was all of a sudden able to bust out pinch harmonics on any string, anywhere on the neck with ease and fluidity! It was so cathartic to listen to someone like the Paul Gilbert explain a situation that I personally identified with, that it inspired me to take the leap and relearn how to hold a guitar pick! What's interesting is I actually still like the tone the older grip gives me for certain clean chordy arppegiated style sections, that I find myself switching between grips to alter and vary my timbre in my playing, thus, giving me more overall diversity in my approach. I honestly owe a ton to this video!
@HeatMaster22 You can do pick slides and the edges do not wear out as fast as my fender thins i used to use. I dont know what you mean by wear them out. They are Tortex picks from dunlop, orange, they kick ass and they cost the same as the crappy fender picks.
well, paul actually said that he was struggling with his picking when he first started playing, so he developed his left hand (i.e. legato), and only THEN did he focus on alternate picking so...it worked for him the other way around. Though I suppose you have a certain point there.
I've been at this for a while now, & I'm finding that one of the secrets is to start off picking as lightly as you can by only using the very tip of the pick against the string. It's a totally different feel to regular picking!
That's what we all try and do Paul. We are all searching for that magic lick, riff and inspiration. Paul Gilbert is an insanely awesome player. He kept the metronomes clicking at GIT.
omg i'vw been playing legato for 5 years because i could never get it right this helps allot i can see an improvement with my picking already thanks for uploading this
@7:00 - i feel u on that one PG. Ive seen alot of people playing fast with hammer on's, where there left hand is doing more work than the right. Its good to have balance in both of your hands. Great lesson from one of the great sages.
@devtimers the material of the pick can make a difference, I find using a smooth pick like a big stubby will give a smooth tone even when at an angle. I think paul uses tortex which is a little rough and scratchy
@MicableShawn There's a video to the right in related videos just called "Paul Gilbert Lesson" (he's wearing a grey shirt) where he plays a lick from Straight Through The Telephone Pole as a warmup and talks about picking. Also no telling what his gear's like nowadays, it's way different than what it used to be.
PG has done more for my playing than pretty much anyone else. Intense Rock 1 is a must own for serious shredheads out there.
Agreed
Also check out 100% Racer X
The first exercise switching strings with outside picking is the best
doing some research for my PG video, I love Pauls lessons & makes alot of sense But musically for me
it hasn't helped because i can't play that Fast. wish i could
Hi, I'm from the future, I'll be subbing to you in 11 years.
@@Jessamer 🤣
7K likes, 1 million views. Same 7K guitarists saw it back and forth 1 million times
there were actually 14k guitarists, the other 7k missing are dead after their brain exploded.
Yep! lolll i saw this on yt when it first came out !
Great to se that such a immense guitar icon as Paul Gilbert can also be a amazing teacher.
he's one of the BEST guitar teachers. if you look at how other guitar playes teach they have a real problem articulating.
if you watch yngwie malmsteen lessons they're basically him mumbling "yeah u do this thing" and don't explain clearly lol
He taught Buckethead how to play....
He could teach anyone to play something
Paul Gilbert is the most sensible instructor of this kind of stuff out there. He is almost the only one who says anything about the left hand. No matter how fast you can pick, if your left hand can't fret the notes as fast as the right can pick them, then Bob's not your uncle.
i came for the right hand............
Question is, what does he say about the left hand path as it were?
@@danteravenveren1278 Ha!
1:46 ''After 8 years of that...''
I've been playing for 2 years, and I find tedious to re-visit and change my technique. A true example of discipline and improvement in Paul.
Still playing my friend?
I had a similar issue to Paul’s, however mine went on for 15 years!
I used to hold my pick by sandwiching it flat between my first finger and thumb, and to get the angle my arm was pretty much parallel to the strings. Sitting down I was fine, but when I played standing up it looked like my guitar was choking me lol.
After 15 years I finally realized how odd my picking was and began changing it. It took a long time for it to feel comfortable, almost like I was relearning how to play. Once I got the hang of it, anything I struggled to play or couldn’t play at all started becoming more achievable.
Holding the pick badly was my biggest hinderance, and fixing that made me feel more confident. I definitely recommend to anyone at least make an attempt to adapt your technique. It can do wonders if you really give it a chance!
You, Sir Gilbert. Are, without a doubt, the best guitarist and Teacher in the world!
Still in 2019, I've never seen anyone do the legendary Gilbert exercise with more ease and power!
Check out igor paspalj.Definitely better,and he took many inspiration from PG
@@vulgr5076 not better, he's great though, paul's pick atack is much better, I love his agressive sound, a d he gets it very efficiently
Anton Oparin
The first alternate picking exercise 0:10 was printed in music notation with Paul in an ad for Musicians Institute in a 1985-86 Guitar World mag with Vai on the cover. I saved that mag not only for Vai's lesson, but for this exact alternate picking lesson. This lesson, along with one particular warm up exercise in Steve's original 10 Hour Workout that appeared in Guitar World (Steve on cover after he joined Whitesnake) and the aforementioned mag with Pablo are still right here on my theory and all things music (from Machaut to modern music) shelf. Timeless and priceless. (As are Paul's instructional videos from the 1980s and 1990s. Buy them... even if you don't listen to Paul. He's a great teacher when it comes to pick dynamics.)
thats exactly how i hold my pick... everything goes down hill from there
This is THE best picking video I have ever seen and refer to it often as well as encourage newer guitar players to watch as well.. Thanks so much.
You have to see Mr.Roy Marchbank doing his picking thing immediately.He's another universe to this.
Watching this, knowing Paul's philosophy on picking nowadays is hilarious. He'd most likely tell you to forget what he said in this video. Not about the tone part, but about "For fast things I prefer alternate picking"
Getting old really sucks. Paul still plays like this in some of his instagram videos but not in his recent music or instructionals. His view on music changed quite a bit after 2010, i much prefer pre-2010 PG over the recent one.
But hey, unfortunately people get old and change, his hearing loss isn't helping either. As a huge fan since the 80s i feel "betrayed" by his stylistic change, and it's a shame.
@@livingbeing1113As a musician, his musical expression is the only thing that really matters and he doesn't owe anyone anything. I can see how you'd be disappointed, but he never betrayed anyone by changing his style.
cooooooool
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*Video starts* WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!!!!
Such an awesome demonstration of picking technique with an emphasis on tone above all else. Thank you Paul Gilbert. You’ve always been a
Huge inspiration.
Each Paul Gilbert's picking is like a hammering 🔨
This is MINDBLOWING. Love him! best guitar player ever.
Nicest seeming guy in the world; craziest riffs I ever heard....
Also totally gonna synchronize my hands, despite my body memory..
If anyone on earth knows how to move the pick it is Paul Gilbert. Paul is clear on concepts and this is one of the many reasons he is the awesome technician that he is. This is good information.
True story about Paul Gilbert, circa 1986-87 at GIT: We heard that Paul Gilbert would be giving a workshop on speed picking. Of course at that time, Metal was huge, and everybody wanted to learn how to pick as fast as Gilbert. The auditorium was packed. Gilbert came out, went through this long build-up spiel. Finally, pulls out a power drill! Attached to the bit are three picks. He guns the drill to full speed, and applied the spinning picks to the string... It was hilarious! Of course he was making a point about gimmicky playing. But it was pretty funny. I'm still amazed nobody has tried to market something like that. A handheld power picker....
His sense of humor is on point. His old website was pretty cool, wish he had kept it. There were some cool tour stories there. Renting vans across the desert. The stories from when we were broke are always the coolest.
Paul is really a great teacher. I remeber starting out long time ago with his intructional vhs, really good information for exercising alternate picking. Paul is the man!
5:04 I love how he can get that chunky sound with alternate picking that you usually only hear with downpicking
He really thinks about every aspect, no matter how small it seems. I have learned so much from him and am sure I will continue to have much to learn from him.
Last 10 seconds of him teaching is my last 10 years of playing!
Paul's really the best tutor out there for picking. I wish more people would look at his vids for advice.
My god I just started on acoustic three days ago and I don't think I could ever move my hands that fast!
Most musicians tune down their instruments a whole step, so the strings get easier to bend. Learning in default E tuning would be the optimal, but at some point it gets too difficult, so damn it LOL
+Ridge you will, just play and don't give up. :)
+Ridge lol Paul)) I think you should admit that in Alternate picking Anton Oparin is better. And in his lessons he explains much more details about changing modes that you don't even say anything about, about training muscles, about systems of building stamina, about speen workout, about everything... You're just griddy son of a bitch Paul!!!!!
You will. Just keep at it (if you want to play that style, of course). Not everyone 'shreds'
I started out with Metal and Blues... Now I'm into Jazz... Just depends on what you want to do. The important thing is to enjoy yourself.
I felt the same way the way you did.. 23 years ago.
Very skillfully, bright, masterly! Bravo!
His alternate picking chops are insane! I can only hope to one day pick that fast without everything sounding like a jumbled mess.
Paul is a treasure to aspiring guitarists everywhere. So humble and open to explain his techniques.One of the few guys who breaks down his own songs for others to learn. Love this dude
why cant i get this shit down after like 4 years -______-
Same... I guess practising your whole life is the key
only 4 years? lolk
JINSHUANG XU played a day and mastered it.
damn... thats some solid advice mate thnx!
I feel like I can go faster I don't get good tone. Should the string be palm muted at all? What about thumb touching string, kinda like perpetual small pinch harmonics. I'm guessing all this is bad.
The Master of speed picking....he's so perfect !....ad just with a light modification of pick direction his sound is totally different. Learning speed picking with Paul is Learning with intelligence because he always explain all the détails, from the big to the tiny one....Thanx a lot Paul.
So interesting to see his approach. Personally, I cannot stand the pick scraping sound, but he makes it work.
I miss this
I really like that swooshy guitar pick tone.
He's totally passionate about his music -- it's really cool to witness!
dont try to hold your pick like anyone else, just do what feels comfortable to you, as long as its functional, and if you want proof of that look at how marty friedman holds his
Haven't come across another picking technique as good, stable, & consistent as this one.
Are you serious? All this time I held the pick parallel to the string because I thought it was WRONG to angle the pick, this makes life a lot easier
fghrty vbnfgh there are great teachers who teach the opposite with concern to pick angle ......I take all lessons with a grain of salt in the respect that I’ll try it and if it is what I like it’ll stick, if I dont like it for what I play I’ll set it aside for another time
he's united with the guitar.............AMAZING
7:07 - don't do what a lot of beginners do. Well, Herman Li does this all the time, his two hands are totally unsynchronized on the fast stuff. I guess he's still a beginner, just a sped-up one...
Kirk Hammett too
Ha, I just made the same comment about Phil Collen :D
Petrucci does it too.😁 Well, not everyone has Gilbert's timing, synchronization and dexterity, in fact nobody has when it comes to shredding and alternate picking. Except for Anton Oparin.
Paul Gilbert is bad ass. I've never seen another guitar player share so much insight into their own picking technique before. What a great lesson.
The fuk this guy can play drums on his guitar
This is great! In these days you hear a lot of guys talking about playing fast as a bad thing, be he doesnt care. I LIKE BIGGER, ROCK AND LOUDER! He is an inspiration.
73 dislike is a lil wayne fans
lol
HAHAHA! I agree!!!
Good. LOL
Thank you Paul! Pick at a backwards angle! The only useful advice i've gotten after watching ten or so picking videos was here.
the beginner that he is talking about is asking gayaxandria and bring me the gayrizon..ok gays this dude is the real metal ..hail paul!!
love the style..... really really like him...
There's something called economy picking and thats what he means by a better and more efficient ways of picking.But economy picking does not give you emotion and soul alternate picking can give you.
Yes because picking less efficiently equates to more emotion....please don't reproduce
Luke Belardo alternate picking is more agressive.
It's not emotion, it's tone. And yes the tone is indeed better.
You play a lot faster with economy though.
+Çağatay Sunal You can play a lot faster with legato though
This picking was badass
I was sure that Steve Vai was the best guitar man that I had seen... No....
Exactly.....then comes Guthrie Govan!!!!
Exactly.....then comes Guthrie Govan!!!!
Francois DuJour Not exactly what I mean, but...
+Ivan Carlos Santiago kidding dude. I love all these guys equally
I understood. They are out of this world
PG was a teacher and Buckethead was a student. Paul is realy a great guitaris, he knows how to do it and learn it out!
New video... "How Paul Gilbert deals with equipment failure live" ua-cam.com/video/HTvbq3HXmw0/v-deo.html
6:09 Paul taught that alt picking practice technique in the early/mid 1980s in GIT (now MI) advertisements in Guitar Player & Guitar World (plus, it was in one of his 3 1980s guitar instruction vids.
But that little technique in the GIT ad was a life changer. I still have one copy of the ad in a GW from 1986!
no one can pick as intense as paul gilbert;))...he has the most perfect and scariest control ever:))
@minivirus
I agree, it's all in what you like. Pick attack is often overlooked as a way to get different sounds from your playing. I prefer a cleaner pick attack with not so much angle but it's all personal preference.
i like paul gilbert. great music and great lessons. rock on gilbert!
God damn! seeing Paul shred like this really reminds me how amazing of a musician he really is. one of the best guitarists of all time!
he is awesome...you can tell he honestly just loves to play and create a true passion for the instrument
always a pleasure to learn form this guy
Make sure you get to see him live. It's a crazy rock and roll fest, all kind of covers, shredding, prog aweseomeness.
one of the best lessons on youtube.
He sure is. Besides, I love how he explains everything so clearly and tries to convey as much information as possible in as little time as he can. Besides, he always knows what he's talking about. PG is just such an inspiration.
Great lesson Paul! You are very clear in your instructions and break it down into precise sections. This is getting me closer to getting that electric that I want :)
the best teacher of all the guitar gods...pual will improve your playing in no time
The most useful alternate picking lesson ever
Paul is a true guitar freak, crazy as hell.
His picking feels like he's melting my face. Awesome !
Paul really makes me re-evaluate my entire approach to playing, amazing
a yai my master....you're really my gilbert inspiration....keep alternating my teacher....
My top 5 guitarists of all time
@JosephCurteis you can do this with a soft pick too. Paul himself uses a .60mm pick, if I remember correctly.
"let me slow that down for you real quick." Proceeds to play at close to my max tempo. Paul is a guitar god
@GeneralDO0m He meant the 7th fret on the A, which is an E note, and opposed to the low E is higher so in this context it's the high E.
Maaan!
I love how much hes's getting into it at the beginning its awesome
Great video! He seems like a super nice guy!
Paul gives the best lessons...
this is probably my fav. instructional dvd
Perfect technique, no anchoring at all.
@sirchief1 that's the riff from his song SVT from the album Space ship one
Good stuff! I already do all this in my playing, but they are things I've learned to do almost instinctively. This lesson is great because I'm starting to teach a couple of people how to play like this, and dissecting, interpreting, and explaining techniques to others isn't something I'm very good at yet.
I was literally taught the exact "backwards" pick grip Paul showed in the beginning, and I played like that for YEARS! I had good overall control, and was decent at pulling artificial harmonics, string skipping, and trills, but I tensed up during faster pieces, and had to readjust my grip in order to pull squeals spontaneously. I used to look at my buddy's grip, and every other guitarist's pick grip and think that was such a weird "backwards" way to play lol. I honestly think it was about 9-10 years ago when I first encountered this video and listened to Paul talking about having to undo this method of picking, and relearning how to alternative pick, I decided to do the same (and in turn realized how much of a douche my original teacher was lmao). Once I acclimated to the more conventional "correct" pick technique, I noticed my overall wrist control increase, and I was all of a sudden able to bust out pinch harmonics on any string, anywhere on the neck with ease and fluidity! It was so cathartic to listen to someone like the Paul Gilbert explain a situation that I personally identified with, that it inspired me to take the leap and relearn how to hold a guitar pick! What's interesting is I actually still like the tone the older grip gives me for certain clean chordy arppegiated style sections, that I find myself switching between grips to alter and vary my timbre in my playing, thus, giving me more overall diversity in my approach. I honestly owe a ton to this video!
Awesome,good luck in getting this pick scratch with Rectifier.I bought Laney GH50L and it sounds exactly like in this demo.
@HeatMaster22 You can do pick slides and the edges do not wear out as fast as my fender thins i used to use. I dont know what you mean by wear them out.
They are Tortex picks from dunlop, orange, they kick ass and they cost the same as the crappy fender picks.
@MetalHeart8787 They put a turtle on them because the picks are meant to emulate the turtle shell that picks used to be made of.
well, paul actually said that he was struggling with his picking when he first started playing, so he developed his left hand (i.e. legato), and only THEN did he focus on alternate picking so...it worked for him the other way around.
Though I suppose you have a certain point there.
My all time guitar inspirations👍
A true master
Holy crap this is too mind blowing
@llwayneio He also uses alot of presence in his tone
I've been at this for a while now, & I'm finding that one of the secrets is to start off picking as lightly as you can by only using the very tip of the pick against the string. It's a totally different feel to regular picking!
That's what we all try and do Paul. We are all searching for that magic lick, riff and inspiration. Paul Gilbert is an insanely awesome player. He kept the metronomes clicking at GIT.
i love his distorsion tone and picking......
Cool, I haven't heard of him, but I'll be sure to check him out.
omg i'vw been playing legato for 5 years because i could never get it right this helps allot i can see an improvement with my picking already thanks for uploading this
That's the Low D Paul!!! 😂😂
Love this guy, such an amazing player.
@7:00 - i feel u on that one PG. Ive seen alot of people playing fast with hammer on's, where there left hand is doing more work than the right. Its good to have balance in both of your hands. Great lesson from one of the great sages.
dude, thank u mr gilbet. i'm now holding my pick different and already show results. gilbert ftw!
@devtimers the material of the pick can make a difference, I find using a smooth pick like a big stubby will give a smooth tone even when at an angle. I think paul uses tortex which is a little rough and scratchy
@MicableShawn There's a video to the right in related videos just called "Paul Gilbert Lesson" (he's wearing a grey shirt) where he plays a lick from Straight Through The Telephone Pole as a warmup and talks about picking. Also no telling what his gear's like nowadays, it's way different than what it used to be.
Jesus Christ that playing at the start of the vid is insane. Best lesson by far aswell
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