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WOW! Super clean pick blocking. Great stuff as always Doug. It was great to see how you work the bar on this.
Any chance you could do a video of the same exercise but ONLY show close-ups of your picking hand? It would be a great benefit to we NEWBIES who get daunted by pick blocking with some speed.
Any chance you could do a video of the same exercise but ONLY show close-ups of your picking hand? It would be a great benefit to we NEWBIES who get daunted by pick blocking with some speed.
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Thanks Stephen, with pick blocking... the thumb and finger(s) alternate, when one picks the other drops down (at the same moment) on the string that it just picked to kill the sound. Back and forth, thumb and finger, each on it's own string. It's like this... place your right hand on a table with your thumb and first finger pressed down on the table. Tap your thumb on the table and raise your finger at the same instant. Then tap your finger on the table and raise your thumb at the same instant. Keep repeating that, back and forth so one of them is always down on the table. Same thing on the strings of your steel guitar
For example, if you pick strings 5 & 4 with thumb and finger... start by picking string 5 with the thumb. Then pick string 4 with the finger and at the same moment drop the thumb back onto string 5 to kill the sound. Then pick string 5 with the thumb again and at the same moment drop the finger back onto string 5 to kill the sound, etc... back and forth, thumb and finger, so only one note is heard at a time. Never two notes ringing together. The fingers and thumb are "blockers" as well as "pickers".
For example, if you pick strings 5 & 4 with thumb and finger... start by picking string 5 with the thumb. Then pick string 4 with the finger and at the same moment drop the thumb back onto string 5 to kill the sound. Then pick string 5 with the thumb again and at the same moment drop the finger back onto string 5 to kill the sound, etc... back and forth, thumb and finger, so only one note is heard at a time. Never two notes ringing together. The fingers and thumb are "blockers" as well as "pickers".
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Yes, I just updated the video. I added a section showing the right hand (pick blocking), playing the three exercises, plus some other pick blocking noodling. The audio is a little different in this section because I'm playing the guitar through the computer speakers, not through a real amp.
---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WG7qSLYOtU
---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WG7qSLYOtU
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Thanks guys, the video shows how pick blocking works, my interpretation of it anyway. Rather than trying to explain every finger motion in detail, which finger blocks which string, which picks, etc. I thought it would be better to just show what the technique looks like and each player will come up with his own variation that comes natural to his fingers.
Pick blocking is convenient when picking two string patterns, but it gets complicated in some three string patterns. Often a finger or the thumb must be used as a "blocker" on a string that it did not pick. So it has to move to that string and mute it, even though it did not pick that string. It's very difficult to explain in text or in tablature, so the video is helpful in that regard.
Pick blocking is convenient when picking two string patterns, but it gets complicated in some three string patterns. Often a finger or the thumb must be used as a "blocker" on a string that it did not pick. So it has to move to that string and mute it, even though it did not pick that string. It's very difficult to explain in text or in tablature, so the video is helpful in that regard.
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