Andy Wood And The Pendulum Of Death!
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How do virtuoso mandolin players break through the "wall of strings" and play complicated lines with accuracy? The amazing Andy Wood demonstrates. Andy switches effortlessly between two distinct picking modes: a high-speed pickslanting mode with a very rapid, linear motion path, and a medium-speed crosspicking technique with a fluidly curved motion path that we lovingly call the "Pendulum Of Death". Let's take a look at how these two awesomely powerful techniques work. Interested in tablature and slow motion Soundslice examples? Get them here: troygrady.com/...
"The pit and the pendulum" is probably the story of Poe. As far as I know it doesnt really have a name, since this thing was never really used, just fantasy. And surely never named Guillotine in medieval ages, since the guillotine was invented in the time of teh french revolution named after its inventor.
my man Captain
I saw that old Movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's book :
"The Pick and the Pendulum ". A huge Guitar Pick sharpened at one side on the cover ...lol
I think this guy's plectrum technique is beyond any of the guests that have appeared on Troy's channel.He has pretty much every technique down and floats between them with ease.
Andy is awesome!
@@troygrady And Troy's not too shabby either,lol.You offer the most comprehensive content on the mechanics of picking.Good lord there are thousands of videos that claim they will help improve your picking by simply saying "practice this pattern" as they ignore the mechanics entirely.Thanks for your dedication Mr Grady.Andy flips between his angle of attack like Joe Bonamassa does.Not many players do that (they usually anchor their hand,Yngwie FE does this)it seems a tremendous advantage to me in that it offers *true* string skipping and being able to seamlessly connect a greater number of picking patterns.Thanks again.
You need to analice Sierra Hull!! Such a great and talented mandolin player!
Sierra and Chris Thile would both be GREAT people to talk to on this.
always great to see another blue chip pick player : )
Andy just us to though, being from Knoxville!
The Pit and the Pendulum. Great story.
I would love to see Chris Tile on cracking the code!
Wouldn't we all! We've reached out a few times, haven't heard back. You never know.
@@troygrady shame, he's probably flat out
"The Pit and the Pendulum" - Edgar Allan Poe
I LOVE this channel. I'd like to mention, I think in order to pick like Andy does, it requires a thumb-to-index ratio of significant size. If you have a short thumb then you are not going to be able to bend the thumb over the index to get the ideal angle comfortably. That doesn't mean someone with a short thumb-to-index ratio can't be a great musician or guitarist. Obviously, many people with short thumbs can still make great music and be phenomenal guitarists. But for advanced techniques in flatpicking, including bluegrass style etc, it helps to have an adequately long thumb. Anatomy plays a huge role and that doesn't get mentioned much by teachers because I think people don't want to deter people from believing they can do anything if they just try. I've never seen anyone online acknowledge that genetics and anatomy are a real factor. But I believe it is true. Just like having longer legs tends to help with slam-dunking basketball goal. Sure, a channel called "how to be great at basketball" wouldn't have to mention height as a factor for basketball shooting techniques. But if we're talking about slam dunking a goal, we should mention height may be an inevitable factor. For Andy, his thumb naturally falls in the right place with ease. The same is true for so many other players as well. Eric Johnson is another great example where his thumb-to-index ratio is easy to see how it helps with this type of picking. Chris Thile, Carl Miner, Tommy Emmanuel... The list goes on and on and on. The thumb length and anatomical angle plays a massive role in whether or not someone can do what Andy does. Do you agree? If anyone has read this whole paragraph, I'd love to be proven wrong if you can challenge me on this. Do you know any flat pickers who can play like Andy who have a short thumb-to-index ratio? Thanks in advance
i agree, I dont know about the thumb index ratio bit I definitely think that some people have limits on their speed and no amount of practice will allow them to play fast, in same way as bass singers will never sing like tenors
Pendulum.
it's in the title
ritzmat whoops, never noticed that.
it's alright mate
I know, it was kind of a dickish thing to say
I pendulum, but not in the typewriter way. It's more like EVH's hummingbird tremolo style but not as exaggerated. I don't play 90 minute sets, but does this wear out my wrist over a long session?
Eddie's tremolo motion isn't actually wrist motion, it's a forearm motion, where the two bones in the arm rotate around each other. By comparison, most players who have some amount of forearm joint in their picking technique don't really use pure forearm like that - they more typically use a combination of wrist motion and forearm motion. A good example is the technique I'm using in this clip ( ua-cam.com/video/-56Rj55LZXc/v-deo.html ). You can see some rotational wiggling in the arm, but there is also some wrist joing motion. it doesn't really look like the purely rotational motion that Ed uses. The good news is that whether your technique looks like Ed's, or like this second "wrist plus forearm" variety, there is nothing wrong with either of them, and they will not wear out your joints. If you can play for normal lengths of time without buildup of fatigue in your picking forearm or upper arm, then you're good, I wouldn't worry about it.
Wow. So clean.
The pit and the pendulum
Daym. Tearing it up on the fiddle.
Anything with Andy gets a like.
I made a slow motion of what I think is the Chris Thile clip you're referring to at 5:51. ua-cam.com/video/SLIdk_GLSgc/v-deo.html
Yep, that's the one, and that's Chris' double escape motion. When he speeds up to "shred" level speeds, he switches to a different joint motion which no longer makes the semicircle. Instead, he uses the diagonal "downstroke escape" motion similar to what Andy and Al Di Meola use, which you can see some closeup shots of here ( ua-cam.com/video/KH08g_xmlng/v-deo.html ). This motion has different capabilities compared to the double escape one, and can't really do the one-note-per-string stuff any more. Which is fine, those kinds of lines mainly exist at medium and medium-fast speeds in classical and bluegrass.
Haha, what a great conversation!
Thanks Troy for introducing me to yet another stellar player. I had never heard of Andy Wood until seeing your videos.
Even though you specialize in picking techniques. Its would be awesome if you could produce something on Ben Lacy's style. Although, Ben earns his living off the one man band percussive style. He is actually a complete space alien when it comes picking technique, with a picking style similar to Steve Morse, Gambale, Malmsteen, and many more... those influences all rolled into one. I have recordings of him playing when he was around 13 to 14 years old that still amaze me. I have no doubt that you create an awesome video clinis and you would surely enjoy it, as mutual lifetime players, it would be fun.
What kind of pick is Andy using ? BlueChip?
Yep!
@@troygrady Thanks! Do you which he's using on the electric by any chance? All the best and thanks for your great channel!
This technique can do wonders but can also be difficult if the groupings are odd , switching to another technique or changing the direction of the stroke for that very group might be the only way out if you're stuck maybe
The crosspicking ("pendulum") movement works perfectly for any kind of grouping, because every pickstroke clears the strings. Any number of notes per string, any combination of string switching. The pickslanting technique that Andy uses for faster lines requires is simplest when you have even numbers of notes per string. He uses two-way pickslanting to get out of odd numbered scenarios and he is exceptionally good at it. You will see occasional rapid forearm movement at times when he does this.
Troy Grady oh I did notice that and the movement was very minimum when it came to one string runs and the way he makes inside picking look so easy is something many guitarist still struggle to this day
I love these videos, and that you use your time with these virtuosos to learn from them, but do you ever jam with them outside of the videos? Because I'd love to see that in pretty much every video you've done, at least a little. Great job, as always!
Not really. Our job is to spotlight their abilities. I’m grateful enough for the learning opportunity as it is
Troy Grady ah! The professional, as always. I respect that. I don’t think I’d be able to resist at least playing rhythm with em. Haha. Thanks for the response
The pendulum is a torture device. The blade is slowly lowered as in swings back and forth.
Does economy picking work on a mandolin?
Not so much in bluegrass but there's actually a ton of sweeping in classical, if you can imagine that. Check out the Bach Chaconne for solo violin being played on mando as one of many examples.
Wow, thanks. I was just wondering because im a marshall harrison style 'economist' and the double strung nature of the mandolin made me feel like my technique woundn't transferable to it. By the way, do you watch Marshall streams? What do think about his swybrid approach?
troy has a video of marshall. and i follow marshall regularly his swybryd is the evolution of economy picking and solves the shortcomings of economy picking. troy is interested in only pure picking he has no interest in using his fingers
Name wrong (OCD-Triggered)
Lol
How the fuck does anyone with gray(ing) hair, not have the title: "The Pit and the Pendulum", not carved into their brain!
Vincent Price...that was scarier than flying monkeys!
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Another way to describe cross picking?
Yes, the "pendulum" movement is the one used in crosspicking. In Cracking the Code lingo we generalize to include lines which aren't specifically "arpeggio" type lines that you'd traditionally associate with the term, but where the movement is still used. In Andy's moderate speed playing, he clicks into the crosspicking movement for almost everything he plays, regardless of whether it is arpeggiated, scalar, etc.
Troy Grady thanks for replying.
Your videos made me realize why I was not able to play "in a flow"....The cross picking video was like a light shining down on me, and I found that I was not alternate picking across strings and that was the problem...
I play guitar just for hobby, but still that information helped me a lot.
You are an awesome fellow. Ignore the haters/trolls and keep it up. 👍
What haters and trolls?! All you guys on here are for the most part super respectful.
Troy Grady I had seen a video earlier where some guy was dissing your videos and that's why I made the comment....anyway, you are genius chap...and I'm a bug fan of yours...