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Post by basementrocker on Mar 20, 2010 9:21:49 GMT -5
any good videos or practice ideas for getting your thumb independent from your fingers? Just beginning to try this technique and find it VERY difficult, but love the way the old blues guitarists play this style- you know the old delta blues. Guess it just takes alot of practice, looking for some videos to teach me how.
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Post by 469roadking on Mar 20, 2010 12:53:29 GMT -5
left or right hand?
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Post by basementrocker on Mar 21, 2010 9:41:59 GMT -5
if u mean am i a right handed guitar player- yes. if u mean what hand i want to train my fingers to move independently, that would be my right hand.
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Post by 469roadking on Mar 21, 2010 11:23:24 GMT -5
I guess I should have said the picking hand or fretting hand. Sorry about that. I do a fair amount of hybrid picking and finger rolls in my playing and what I did to get more comfortable with more difficult passages was to slow everything down to a crawl and just concentrate on my picking hand. I play with a flat pick between my thumb and forefinger and use the nails on my johnny cash and ring finger for the other notes. I will also make up exercises for my picking hand. Such as: downstroke on the low E string with the pick, upstroke with johnny cash on the D string, upstroke with the ring on B string. EDB, EDB, EDB, then do it backwards using the same fingers per string, BDE,BDE,BDE. Then invert it using the same fingers. DBE, DEB, DBE, DEB......
Anyway, I hope that helps. It's just what I do and I'm pretty well self taught in that area. Mojo might have some video lessons stashed away somewhere on the subject.
Good luck and have fun.
B
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Post by pwfirst on Mar 22, 2010 9:35:50 GMT -5
No easy way to learn it but to practice your picking patterns over and over again. I find that alcohol is helpful during the monotonous practice session. Like roadking I use a pick most of the time and encorporate other fingers as needed like when triking 2 notes at a time for accent points.
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