Uptempo Picking

Jeff Colson · Post by **Jeff Colson** » 21 Mar 2008 5:39 am

This is hard for me to do since I'm not a speed picker. I use this to practice with since it reminds me of a lot of stuff I heard growing up listening to older country.

Jeff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApkTqyHTwP8

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 22 Mar 2008 9:54 pm

I was standing close to Doug Jernigan's booth at the St. Louis convention a couple of years ago and I overheard a lady ask Doug "How did you get so fast?"

Doug's answer........ Practice !!!

An honest response if I ever heard one.

Andy Sandoval · Post by **Andy Sandoval** » 22 Mar 2008 10:35 pm

Very cool Jeff. Boy, I'd love to have some tab to try that one.

Jeff Colson · Post by **Jeff Colson** » 23 Mar 2008 6:48 am

Jim, Doug would make me look like I'm playing ballads at my fastest, but as I said I force myself to play this track starting out slow then working up to faster trying to keep the emphisis on clean.

Andy, I don't have any tab for this as I kinda made it up from stuff I've heard for years, but if your interested I could send you something.

Thanks for the replies

Jeff

Jim Bob Sedgwick · Post by **Jim Bob Sedgwick** » 23 Mar 2008 6:31 pm

Therein lies the secret. Play as fast as you can, making sure that you are playing clean and your phrasing is correct. Then push it a little faster until you can play clean at that speed. Just keep doing it. A few months down the road, you will say to yourself..... I couldn't believe this was hard to do. It just takes a lot of sitting on your butt.