Need a vote on this double picking lesson!! HALP!
Added 2024-01-15 18:12:58 +0000 UTCHey y'all!
We are enjoying a beautiful snowy day here in TN, and i'm gonna be in the studio making y'all some new video stuff that i'm really excited about!
I've recently had a bunch of people hit me up about wanting to improve their double picking technique (picking a note twice before changing to another note that gets hit twice... ala the bridge licks in Bark at the Moon), and i want to help!!! In the process of thinking up how, i've come up with two different approaches, and i wanna know which one you all would like to see more:
1: "Learn these riffs to master double picking"
This would be a guided tour of the basics of the technique, and an "easy, medium, hard, extreme" list of popular riffs you should learn to master it.
2: "This etude will make you a double picking diety"
i came up with a fun etude you can practice to get the technique going! Its fun, sounds cool, and would come with the usual backing tracks and Guitar Pro file so you can get it up to speed. I think its more effective on a technical level that the first option, but there's something so fun about learning ACTUAL tunes... i dunno!
Let me know which on you want more, and i'll make it first!!
Cheers, y'all!
-BE
Comments
Etude!
Shveta Stern
2024-01-17 22:01:05 +0000 UTCNo shade to the classical crowd but riffs just do way more for me
Jim Hupp
2024-01-17 17:08:11 +0000 UTCRiffs are good, as long as there are enough of them to get the point across. I'm kinda slow (public school slow) and it takes a bit for me to catch on.
CJ Lemay
2024-01-16 16:42:22 +0000 UTCBoth sound awesome but I love a nice etude you can play while laying on furry carpet
Jake Raymor
2024-01-16 15:31:40 +0000 UTCMake it a 2-part and do both? I like the concept of each as you've described them.
Dave Donarski
2024-01-16 15:15:19 +0000 UTCPractical applications work best IMO. I'm more into song writing than just the technique, therefore learning how others use the technique is more beneficial. To me that is. I've been farting around with the bridge in "Still of the Night" and the verse of "Warfare," by Fit For An Autopsy. Suggestion, do both? More content, boom! Do the riff series, then later do a follow up with the Etude.
Eric James
2024-01-16 14:43:08 +0000 UTCI always find it easier to remember riffs from real songs and it's always more fun to play. I guess an etude might be more efficiant to learn a certain technique but I'll always prefer a riff. The intro to the solo in "Still of the night" (the part that sounds like he is playing with a bow) is an excellent double picking riff thats sounds easy but is harder than it seems.
Tony Hildingstam
2024-01-16 07:32:09 +0000 UTCThis would be an excellent suggestion if we wind up with riffs https://youtu.be/ivGFlTiT3BE?si=T1SinNg-9mdU2USq
NYCM&AHole
2024-01-16 06:50:16 +0000 UTCI just started learning the "Never Enough" by Dream Theater this weekend; it's got a cool double picked section (at least I think that's what you're referring to), but I like etudes as well. :)
Andy Cramb
2024-01-16 03:23:40 +0000 UTCEtudes? Are those nude pice sent in an e-mail?
Eric Bullington
2024-01-16 02:37:25 +0000 UTCI didn’t realize there was an actual term for it but it is the guitar harmonizing to the keyboard in the intro to living dead beat
NYCM&AHole
2024-01-16 01:07:33 +0000 UTCI think a perfect example is the verse of Oblivion by Mastodon; typically a pattern where every note is getting a down and upstroke before changing notes. Usually played as 16th notes.
Ben Eller
2024-01-15 23:55:40 +0000 UTC"Learn these riffs/licks" to improve certain techniques would be an amazing series.
Taos Smith
2024-01-15 23:46:48 +0000 UTCI’m not joking can someone explain what it is?
NYCM&AHole
2024-01-15 23:21:38 +0000 UTCAnd Ben was referring to the very thin Gods of pickslanting, called Dieties. Otherwise, you are correct;)
Paul McDonough
2024-01-15 22:52:28 +0000 UTCYou’re a Lie by Slash and the Conspirators would be perfect
Paul McDonough
2024-01-15 22:49:52 +0000 UTCMy stop Mom says she doesn't like it when I double pick...
kenrinc
2024-01-15 22:33:04 +0000 UTCboth
Keith Fine
2024-01-15 22:18:36 +0000 UTCI have never bothered with completing etudes because I am more of an improviser and prefer to add techniques/riffs bits into my own playing
Elton Young
2024-01-15 21:54:36 +0000 UTCIt’s a short piece of music expressly written to practice a certain technique.
Ben Eller
2024-01-15 21:28:49 +0000 UTCWhile I picked option one, I’d really like both! 😉
CC
2024-01-15 21:28:46 +0000 UTCWhat is an etude?
Chuck Saeger
2024-01-15 21:28:10 +0000 UTCRiffs! And the etude just for us patreons 😜
Dedé
2024-01-15 20:56:47 +0000 UTCMegalodon!! But I always love me a good etude.
Michael
2024-01-15 20:42:00 +0000 UTCBoth would be great!
Greg Conway
2024-01-15 20:37:10 +0000 UTCWell, that changed my vote!
Erik Berg
2024-01-15 20:31:12 +0000 UTCEtudes are fun, yet its really nice to match techniques to songs
Shawn T
2024-01-15 20:22:16 +0000 UTCIf you are taking opinions, I *LOVE* the double picked notes in the solo to "Is This Love?" by Whitesnake.. really adds to the solo. Moo
DrReiCow
2024-01-15 20:08:31 +0000 UTCBefore I die, and I'm close at 55 :-), I want to be able to play Bark at the Moon in its entirety.
Mike Blawn
2024-01-15 19:56:47 +0000 UTCBoth!
Robert Mar Lew
2024-01-15 19:48:07 +0000 UTC1.
Jeff Hirshberg
2024-01-15 19:39:09 +0000 UTCÉtude 🤞
Danny Beardmore
2024-01-15 19:12:38 +0000 UTCHow about both? An etude paired with an actual lick in one video? That'd be nice in literally EVERY lesson/etude video?
Markus Dreßen
2024-01-15 19:06:37 +0000 UTCReckon riffs put into context more, so have voted for that, but of course both is best!
David Rivett
2024-01-15 19:01:03 +0000 UTCwhy not both? (porque no los dos?) 🎉🎉🎉
Luca
2024-01-15 18:49:17 +0000 UTCAn etude is like being a stepdad, you're learning and practicing on the job. When you can finally apply your teachings, and can tackle other people's riffs, you elevate to biological stepdad.
Tyler B
2024-01-15 18:47:19 +0000 UTCYeah, both would be sweet, first, become a deity...then we can wail on some new riffs!
Tim Dortch
2024-01-15 18:43:41 +0000 UTCIs it out of the question to suggest a hybrid? I think learning the technique is one objective, then playing the riffs are practical applications of the techniques. Might be useful to include both to a slightly lesser degree?
Tyler B
2024-01-15 18:42:50 +0000 UTCIs it like the intro to living dead beat? https://youtu.be/aK1yVohKRAc?si=cKpgIwZZP-MZrpkE
NYCM&AHole
2024-01-15 18:37:35 +0000 UTCNot everybody likes the same riffs (even if popular), hence IMO the importance of an etude to learn the mechanics and fundamentals of the technique and practice at slow tempo (for beginners like me). Plus, your etudes are always very musical and enjoyable
Alberto Giachetti
2024-01-15 18:37:13 +0000 UTCI’m stupid-what exactly is double picking?
NYCM&AHole
2024-01-15 18:35:23 +0000 UTCHahahaha thank you!!
Ben Eller
2024-01-15 18:29:43 +0000 UTCBoth!!!im A greedy stepson but I like the etude
Deep Goswami
2024-01-15 18:29:40 +0000 UTCBoth!!!
Dan Kobishop
2024-01-15 18:27:49 +0000 UTCHow about both? 👍👍
James Mazzarisi
2024-01-15 18:27:41 +0000 UTCI think etude would be better
Lee Lawrence
2024-01-15 18:25:09 +0000 UTCRiffs! Oh and it's "deity", you have "diety". I want fat riffs not skinny ones ha 🤘
Beth Nordeen
2024-01-15 18:25:07 +0000 UTC1st option sounds better
Brian Hudson
2024-01-15 18:24:31 +0000 UTCwhy the frick people voted for 1st when 2nd is/will be an obvious banger :despair:
Gaclav
2024-01-15 18:23:18 +0000 UTCEtude Brute!
Shahar Bar
2024-01-15 18:22:55 +0000 UTCA very important question IMO. Much more motivated to practice if it helps learn a riff to play a song that eludes me. Will practice longer to nail a passage. Appreciate you Uncle Ben 👍🔥
T Chill
2024-01-15 18:21:37 +0000 UTCI would prefer the more musical option on this one. I still struggle to the fast double picked lick at speed on the low E and A strings in Bark at the moon.
Derek Dygulski
2024-01-15 18:20:08 +0000 UTCDamn, yeah, I like both ideas
Bogdan Frigioiu
2024-01-15 18:19:25 +0000 UTCLearn a tune and technique at the same time!
Joel Cassell
2024-01-15 18:19:08 +0000 UTCHard to say.. both sounds awesome
Kevin Fairless
2024-01-15 18:18:43 +0000 UTC
