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• wizardofshred #1 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 2:22 am

  Thanks! Nice to hear from you and Sweden. Say hello to your wife for me )

• Dinoni5 #2 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 2:43 am

  Dads Man, Cool plaing,, I live in Sweden, and my wife is from Danemark.. HEJA RÖDE-VITE.. Ciao Leo

• wizardofshred #3 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 3:34 am

  Thanks!

• SHUGHES1986 #4 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am

  Nice !!!

• wizardofshred #5 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 4:18 am

  I think so too. Odd that it’s coming from a Marshall MG 15 watt and a Squier

• Yoshi032976 #6 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 5:05 am

  Wonderful! It’s quite nice tone:)

• wizardofshred #7 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 5:51 am

  Thanks : )

• wajdiwalid #8 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 6:34 am

  nice riff

• wizardofshred #9 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 7:07 am

  : ) Thanks

• wizardofshred #10 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 7:21 am

  Glad you liked it! )

• quirkjerks #11 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 8:20 am

  Nasty badass!
  Oh I am gonna go crazy with this.
  Too bad I don’t have a guitar with a wammeh. Eh. I’ll figure something out.
  Nice!

  -The jerk.

• daneknight33 #12 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 8:45 am

  This is a great style of playing and I have always loved it. the blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll

• johnpetrucci42 #13 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 9:00 am

  Thanx for all the advice. I think I’ve decided to stick to whats comfortable and since I’m already in the habit of doing both I figure if I work at getting faster and cleaner with one and slower and cleaner with the other they’re bound to meet up at some point. I don’t think of the forearm/arm playing so much as “cheating” as an inaccurate and hard to accent way of playing fast comfortably but without control. And its harder to perfect because you have to start fast instead of slow like u should

• wizardofshred #14 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 9:23 am

  My advice to you would be to not use anything but your hand and fingers when you pick. Then force yourself to focus on becoming a lot faster with that one technique. Record your maximum speed now and then try it out for a month. Then see what has happened. I never used the arm technique because someone said it was “cheating” so I never allowed my self to go there. So I had to stick with the one technique or risk being ridiculed : ) But of course it’s not cheating! It’s just one way of doing it

• wizardofshred #15 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am

  That’s a really good example of someone who doesn’t use short cuts. It’s not bad to use them if they work for you! But it sounds like you want something else. John Petrucci seems to use his arm when he picks fast, so he has one technique for the slower lines and another one for the faster lines. I only use one. And that’s not better. It seems more convenient because I don’t have to change techniques but it also requires you to focus on attaining speed with that one technique alone.

• wizardofshred #16 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 10:30 am

  Here’s the deal: Imagine someone holding a gun to your head while you practiced. And if you tensed up your arm or hand in anyway, he would pull the trigger. In our pursuit of speed our brain is constantly looking for short cuts to greater results faster. Anything else than a relaxed picking hand is a short cut. Your goal should be to pick fast, using the same muscles as when you pick slow. Look at Paul gilberts hand.

• johnpetrucci42 #17 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am

  Question wiz.

  The way I normally pick, my fingers tend to bounce around when I hit the strings and as I get faster they get more tense until I get to a point where I have to change techniques to a more relaxed type of wrist/forearm picking.

  But I can only do it exclusively for faster stuff and the other for slow to moderately fast stuff.

  Kinda like the saying “You can only walk so fast until you eventually have to run/jog to go any faster”.

  Any advice? its my biggest obstacle

• wizardofshred #18 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 11:38 am

  Thanks man… Great plan you have

• wizardofshred #19 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

  Well thank you so much sir : )

• wizardofshred #20 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

  Yup. I love it! : )

• wizardofshred #21 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

  Thanks : )

• Painkiller86 #22 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 2:22 pm

  very tasty!

• NirradGann #23 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

  Wow! Krazy good man! BTW is that a scalloped fretboard?

• profeso07 #24 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

  5 stars

• boonec5 #25 - Comment permalink September 27th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

  oh wow. that sucks. if something ever happens to this channel. be sure to let me know. cause i want to stay watching

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