jazz_guitar@... wrote:
Original Message:
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:29:08 -0000
From: "Paul Erlich" <paul@...>
Subject: Re: Question For Jimmy B./reading/soloing/fingering
--- In jazz_guitar@y..., "Zeek Duff" <zkduff@q...> wrote:
One; for you Paul, there is a section on syncopation, which would
be in line with your question to Jimmy.
Really? Ted Greene recommends economy picking rather than alternate
picking? And what does syncopation have to do with my question?
In the two books of his that I have, he only briefly mentions that there are
a number of different methods for picking, and that's in chord Chemistry.
One should just choose what is comfortable for them. Maybe he touched on it
more in Vol. 1 of the soloing books, but I don't have that one; skipped right
to Vol. 2. He didn't go into specific right hand technique at all in that
one, either (at least, I haven't seen anything about it in that one, but I
haven't read every word, yet).
AND, I apologize for the confusion. Not having studied any of Jimmy's stuff
(as good an excuse as any), I mistook what you were talking about as a
concept, rather than a specific picking technique problem. You're trying to
play syncopation and the concept isn't a problem, the execution is. I get it
now, and Dan's excellent "Picking" post makes it perfectly clear. But yes,
in my flatpicking days, I used essentially two tools; a relaxed, broad
sweeping motion and a tight, economical single string downward motion for an
each note type of stroke. I'm trying to break my addiction to picks, and am
becoming a full time fingerstylist; so, I'ma gonna shaddup now. :)
Regards,
...z
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