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Ultimately, you just have to keep doing it until it starts to sound right.
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This stuff has been discussed before, so a few searches through the archives should turn up some useful stuff. You can block with your palm, picks, by fretting with the nose of your bar on the string being played so that when you move the bar to the next string the note stops ringing, with your left thumb, by lifting the bar entirely off the strings, and lots of other ways, I'm sure. I doubt you want to learn this because you heard it was easy. it's steel guitar playing, is what it is. Even if you get good at doing thumb-index/thumb-index crossovers from strings ten through one (thumb picks ten, index picks nine, thumb picks eight, index picks seven, etc.), trying to integrate that ability into playing actual music is, well. Or at least how he did it at the time he wrote the tab.Ĭoordinating crossover picking with complicated bar movement is really hard.
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He puts what finger he's using for a given note beneath the tab, so you can see how he approaches the issue of double thumb hits, crossovers, etc. I saw him live and I think I might even have seen him do a triple thumb hit-and he does it as fast as I can do a regular forward roll.įor something interesting to look at, check out the Buddy Emmons "Blues to Use" course at. He prefers the heavier more powerful thumb hit. Rather than thumb, index, middle on strings 6, 5 and 4 (say), he'll play thumb, thumb, index (or middle, I'm not actually sure). Where someone else might play a simple forward roll Jerry will do a double hit with his thumb. If you have somebody whose sound you like, you could decide to emulate their technique.Īn example of the different, yet totally valid, ways of picking might be to look at Jerry Douglas' playing. As usual, the only common denominator between the picking techniques of different "elite" players is tons of practice. It depends on the phrasing and your own dexterity-and your tone preferences, personal style, etc. I've found that different techniques work better for different things. There are all sorts of ways of "crossing over," and I'm still kind of boggled at the people who can do it really well. Most of Jeff's material deals with the pedal steel.įrom: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada JO edited to fix the link Gotta learn to read more closely. This will be a great help in teaching proper right hand technique as well.
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What are some basic picking patterns that I could practice to get my speed and accuracy up? I have a few that carry over from guitar, such as forward rolls and things like 'thumb-mid-thumb-index' alternating rolls, but it seems that one would need to know how to cross pick to get some of the backwards scales to work, and I just can't figure out a good clean pattern to use on most of it.Ĭheck into Jeff Newman's Right Hand Alpha course. I play non pedal (10 string E13), but I figured you guys could help me out since pedal steelers use so many speed picking patterns and such. I'm both a newbie to this forum and a newbie to the steel. Topic: Standard picking patterns and pick blockingįrom: Nashville, Tennessee (Originally Texas) Your profile | join | preferences | help | search
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Standard picking patterns and pick blocking Classic country shuffle styles for Band-in-a-Box, by BIAB guru Jim Baron.