Suggestions on speed picking learning material

[Roger Crawford]

I need to kick my speed picking up a notch. What have you found that worked for you? Preferably something with tab.

[Jerry Hayes]

Roger, check out Doug Jernigan's site! He's the master at speed pickin' and has some very nice instructional material to choose from.......JH in Va.

[Joe Gretz]

http://www.jeffran.com/

Jeffran College offers "No Speed Limit".

http://pedalsteel.com/ashop/contact.php

Joe Wright has some good stuff too.

[Ernest Cawby]

Roger Jeff Newemans right hand alpha.

ernie

[Ken Byng]

Bobbe Seymour's excellent series of tuition video's contains one on speed picking called "Picking At The Speed Of Sound" - a two volume set. He is currently running a special deal on them. http://www.steelguitar.net/

[Brad Malone]

Nobody picks faster than Zane King...the address on the book is: ZANE KING PRODUCTIONS, 2415 Hwy. 16, Searcy, AR 72143 and the phone # listed is (501) 279-2539. This is done on the E9th tuning. Anybody that can attain Zane's speed and his clarity has my vote...he is super fast and super clean...the book comes with a cassette tape

[Erv Niehaus]

Paul Franklin also has some material out on speed picking.

[Dennis Lee]

Check out Jim Loessberg's material. He has some good cd's re: this topic.

[Frederic Mabrut]

For setting things in motion:
"No speed Limits" by Jeff Newman

[Zane King]

Brad - someone pointed me to this post. Long long time since I left my hometown of Searcy. Just so you have it and can pass along...
Zane King PO Box 23646 Nashville, TN 37203
615-471-4296...thanks too for the compliment!

[Terry Sneed]

another vote for Jeff

[CrowBear Schmitt]

Roger, you'll find excellent courses by those mentioned above
Bruce Bouton, Paul Franklin, Mike Smith, Doug Jernigan, Jeff Newman are tops

here's an immediate freebie that will get you going :

i do this lil' major scale excercise in a cycle of 4ths to warm up before playing anything
C to F to Bb to Eb to Ab to C# to F# to B to E to A to D to G & back to C
you'll get to know & play in all the keys !
pick that cycle 10 times everyday !
( there's more if you want too )
what's important is to dig in w: your picks first & then pick the notes, using the thumb as the pivot
this will help you improve : bar control, pick blocking, use of the 2nd string - anticipating your next move
fingers : t = thumb - i = index - m = middle
start on fret 8 then 1 then 6 then 11 then 4 then 9 then 2 then 7 then 12 then 5 then 10 then 3 & back to 8 ( play it 10 times)
[tab]
2-----------------------8m-----/-----8m-------------------/
3------------------------------/--------------------------/
4---------------------------8i-/--8i----------------------/
5-----------------8t--8A-------/--------8At--8------------/
6----------8m--8B--------------/----------------8Bm--8----/
7-------8i---------------------/------------------------8i/
8---8t-------------------------/--------------------------/ *1t Blam ! yer in F on 1 !
[/tab]
* don't play that C again (root note) but move up to the 4th position (which in turn becomes the root note)

[John Ummel]

I got Doug Jernigan's "100 Hot Licks" and its full of good patterns for fast picking. It came with a cassette tape of the licks which my old cassette player promtly "ate". I e-mailed Doug to see if maybe its now available on a CD and have had no response. I'm sure he's very busy and I heard he had been ill. I don't see this book/tape(CD?) on his website but there is a DVD on speed picking.

[John Polstra]

what's important is to dig in w: your picks first & then pick the notes, using the thumb as the pivot

CrowBear, could you elaborate on that sentence? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "dig in w: your picks first" or "using the thumb as a pivot".

Thanks,
John