Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

At 11/28/06 07:31 AM, DarKsidE555 wrote:

At 11/28/06 07:16 AM, Tanooki-John wrote: Try this one. I got the page set for you. If you dont see it as "Megaman" then try looking it up as "Rockman" like they say it in japanese. That's where I get all my megaman Zero music. I hope that helps.

wtf?

FAILED for bumping old thread! : /

Failed for bumping the bumpage of the old thread.

But that is in essence the basic breakdown of many of the drum patterns on NG.

Throw in some crashes, snares, half-open hats, toms...etc.

At 11/27/06 03:12 AM, xXDathDalerXx wrote: pick with your wrist not your arm
when you're not used to certain movements your hands/arm will tense up,just keep at it. start off slow & then increase speed little by little

Thanks. No one seems to understand what I'm trying to say. I DO pick with my wrist. But what I'm trying to say is that when I'm picking (with my wrist) at the bass E string, then I skip down to the D string, my forearm is going to be moved down a bit. Is this okay to do?

I think you're right. My wrist is the immediate decider on what string I'm at, but if I'm ascending up a scale or descending down a scale, my forearm should be slowly moving up and down accordingly, correct?

Actually, what I was saying is that instead of relying on using my wrist to move extra far to change to different strings, I just use my elbow to choose which string my wrist will end up at. That way, my wrist never has to move very much at all, other than the little movements it makes to alternate pick.

Does that make sense?

If you have iTunes, that will convert WAV to MP3 if that's what you needed.

Dimrain47 and DavidOrr. Easily.

You've gotta be joking me.

I have talked to people who know or have met ParagonX9 in real life. I have read articles on the web about how he had been 3rd place in the records of Perfect Dark, 20-something in Goldeneye, and 43rd in Mario Kart 64. I have seen pictures of him.

He's a guy...

Don't start this debate again.

Got it, thanks. I've been practicing for a few hours today...got my "6 notes per beat" up to a comfortable 76 bpm today. Wuet. And I'm not tensing up either. Sweet.

By the way, WinTang, I tried out a bit of a different picking style today. Instead of using my wrist to get from string to string, I focus more on miniscule movements with my wrist the whole time, relying on my elbow joint to act like a crane (moving my arm from string to string). Does that make sense? I just wanted to know if that is as good or better than relying on your wrist to move extra far to get from string to string when alternate picking. Thanks.

At 11/24/06 10:33 PM, WinTang wrote: Good, so practice that. The tension should disappear once you've "nailed the tempo" and then you can try 74.

Also, rather than doing this for two hours straight, do it a couple of times a day for like 20 minutes and after that pay attention to the tensed area, make sure you relax it gradually by massaging it and whatever else you feel relieves it. Then wait at least 30 minutes before you go at it again.

So, it's good to rest inbetween practice sessions? Hm...I've never done that before because I spend 15-20 minutes warming up and I want to stay warmed up.

Thanks WinTang. I appreciate your help. I'll give that a try.

Capn, alternate picking is a picking method for guitar. Where you pick down, up, down, up the whole time...instead of picking down, down, down or up, up, up.

WinTang, I honestly cannot alternate pick very fast. I can probably only comfortably do eighth note triplets at 70 bpm. I'm working on getting that higher, but that's where it gets tense.

I've heard time and time again that having your picking arm relaxed will result in the best/fastest playing. But every time I am pushing myself with speed, my right arm (specifically the bicep/upper arm) tenses up and starts to flex.

What's the best way to fix this? I try to keep my arm relaxed, but it automatically tenses up in the bicep area when I am pushing speed.

Thanks for any response.

So is it okay to pick with a curled wrist like that? It seems like it wouldn't be as good, but they are awesome guitarists.

Sorry for making so many guitar threads, but I'm eager to ask this specific question:

It's so weird that Marty's right wrist is so curled when he plays the guitar. Anyone's wrist curl like that when they play? My wrist tends to curl just a bit. I honestly don't see how it would be possible for me to play with my wrist NOT curled downward. It's like it anatomically doesn't make sense.

Well that's the thing...

I'm comfortable picking that way, but I can't pick very fast. I'm beginning to think that picking with the thumb joint probably doesn't have the best potential for speed? I'm not sure, so that's why I ask NG.

Yeah you're probably right. But I mean, I've heard of people picking with their elbow joint, wrist joints, but I use my thumb joint! I just don't know if it has the same potential.

Like you said, maybe I do need to ease off of my "improper picking technique" I don't mind taking the time to re-learn some fundamentals of picking if eventually it will be for the better.

Are there any other guitarists that pick by moving their thumb joint up and down?...and not by moving the wrist side to side?

I've been playing electric guitar on and off for almost 2 years now, but I have been starting to play very passionately (practicing many hours a day) these past few months. And lately as I've been watching an extensive amount of videos of guitarists on the Internet, it's come to my attention that I pick different than everyone else does (at least I think I do).

Instead of keeping my wrist in line with my forearm and moving my wrist left and right to alternate pick, my elbow rests closer to my body then others. So, while others have an acute (less than 90 degrees) angle inbetween their forearm and upper arm, my angle is bigger, about 90 degrees. And due to this, my wrist is sort of bent downward (from the line of my forearm).

So, to pick, I keep the right side of my wrist (opposite of the thumb) anchored on the strings (inbetween the bridge and the pickup closest to the bridge), and I pick up and down by moving my thumb joint. So, to move the pick up and down, instead of moving my wrist left and right, I just move my thumb joint up and down...sort of smashing my knuckle joints closer together when I pick down, and the opposite when I pick up.

-----I've never been a very fast alternate picker. In fact sometimes I feel limited as to how fast I can pick, and I've always wondered why. I don't know if it's because of my "bad technique" or not practicing enough scales with a metronome every day (and I am guilty of slacking on that). But can someone please try to understand my technique of picking and tell me whether or not this is a bad thing to do, and if it would be a good idea to switch to "wrist picking" which is what I see most people doing.

-------If necessary I will host a video and post the link here so my picking technique can be seen rather than described (and probably confusing some people).

Thanks in advance.

My dick isn't long enough to reach the strings though. Any suggestions?

I used to pick from the elbow at times, but then realized it probably was better to pick from the wrist...so I now only use my wrist to pick.

But is elbow picking actually less efficient than wrist picking?

I have around 2000 I think. Metal and Techno. =)

I would, but I use Pro Tools. I don't know how to use anything else. Good luck though.

What's this "heaviness-of-riff-related-to-tuning-of-gu
itar" debate I have missed?

Is it too late to say that I would like to buy a Dimrain47 cd also? I know I'd be missing out if I couldn't get my hands on one.

Let me know if I can be of service. There are certainly better VG/midi composers here than me, but I can get the job done.

At 10/1/06 02:11 AM, DJCityScape wrote: john cage did stuff like this, rolling dice to determine notes and rhythms in music. it's really fun to do, it can create some really awesome stuff and really crappy stuff.

Can you expand a bit more on this "rolling dice to determine notes and rhythyms in music?"

Sorry if this is a thread-jack.

At 9/27/06 03:17 PM, Love-Hate-War wrote: I cant believe we've gone on for 2 pages about picks...what has the world come to...seriously lol

It's either picks or George W. Bush.

At 9/27/06 12:44 AM, GoreBastard wrote:

At 9/27/06 12:21 AM, Metaljonus wrote: I use Dunlop Big Stubbies. 3.0mm LOL Thick as fuck but I love they're great for what I do I suppose.

HOLY SHIT! That's thicker than my dick!!!

Haha.

10027, I actually agree. 1.0 seems just a tad too thick for me, where 0.88 is perfect. Nice and solid in thickness, but not too fat.

I use Pro Tools as my main sequencer/editor. Along with a few plug-ins: Reason 3.0, Xpand! (a free Pro Tools plug-in), and I'm about to buy some more orchestral/choral samples to add to my collection.

Many people use Cubase, Reason, FL Studio, and there are quite a few others.

Wuet. I got some Dunlop Tortex 1.0's today. They're awesome. Now I can't stand that flappy 0.5-0.6 business.