Picking
# 1
If you need to play Metal, it isn't... You need to use a lot of dynamics in your playing, from gentle to savage, and all in between. A music without dynamics bores faster than a very dynamic music.
# 2
I play mostly metal and have to agree. In my riffs I used a lot of different picking attack. I'll picking softly and concetrate on accuracy when doing some in between licks or in my solos.
Also, I don't pick the same way in rythmn and solos. In rythmn I'll attack with my pick slightly rotate forward while I'll do the opposite in solos.
I don't know why but it works for me. I also use fingers motions to pick and almost never use my wrist, except for accoustic guitar.
# 3
I kinda have two ways of holding my pick depending on if i'm soloing or strumming ..much the same as Benoit. Haven't had a lesson in all my born days and have been wondering if having two different ways of holding the pick was a nasty habit I'd never get out of and be consigned to being a middling guitarist forever!
I quite like these Jim Dunlop picks as they have some nice 'grippy' stuff on them and are bendy without being so thin you can't strum loudly with them. I think their 0.6mm.
I'm always worried I'm gonna snap a string if I get too medieval with my picking.
I quite like these Jim Dunlop picks as they have some nice 'grippy' stuff on them and are bendy without being so thin you can't strum loudly with them. I think their 0.6mm.
I'm always worried I'm gonna snap a string if I get too medieval with my picking.
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