Before playing Classical guitar I was basically a rythim player with a pick both electric and acoustic. Now, after so many years playing Classical (total fingerstyle for those not familiar) I'm terrible with a pick. It's so foreign to me now. I watch you jazzers and metal players and I'm fascinated with your alls sweeps and hybrid etc. Like anything else hours and hours of practice and playing. Thank you Tim! Always enjoy your videos. Total respect!
Cool almost like a manic trick sleight of hand how you control that pick....so fast changing and smooth with the pick then without. Amazing sir Tim thanks for showing that pick transition technique.
Thanks so much. Sleight of hand, indeed. I have so much trouble with hybrid picking that it tends to be either or for. Have to work on it Looking the same every stroke is so important and struggle with it. You are truly an inspiration. Thanks
This is a great video and a reminder to do whatever works. I've been struggling so much with William Leavitt's book as I try to go 100% pick as instructed instead of using the hybrid picking I learned when I was much younger. I think it's time to ease up on the dogma of Leavitt (who was responding to a lack of pick-oriented instruction material for guitarists at the time) and just do what works as long as my reading stays sharp and my time is tight.
Your picking style is pretty much exactly like mine, tucking the pick opens you up to so much more diversity and is integral to my sound and music now. Michael Landau is a real master of this too, he seems to be able to shift very quickly with no break in the music.
You jazz cats blow my mind with your technique, having been raised on folk, country, bluegrass, blues and rock. I was never into jazz very much, except for Kessel and Django, but then I found a Timothy Lerch video many years ago, then Fred Archtop, and since then, countless others, although I still love Tim and Fred the most. They don't waste any notes, and are both great musicians, besides being incredible guitar players. If you play like Tim does, my hats off to you too..!
The gypsy jazz style uses the floating wrist so all string muting is done with left hand technique, but on electric archtop would you use some right hand palm muting. Especially on playing lead to try and keep the tone warm. Keep up the good work, any advice most welcome. From Devon, England.
Fascinating, and something for me to try. I have only just developed something of a finger style, and to be able to swap to pick with similar facility to you Tim, would be of great benefit to me. Many thanks.✌️
I often alternate thumb/ one or some combination like thumb/one thumb/two. Ultimately though I don’t use a fixed pattern because I let the music dictate what the fingers do rather than the other way around.
Timothy Lerch I was just curious. It is great with a plain 3rd. I've heard of guitars being setup for a plain 3rd but never designed for a particular string, either plain or wound 3rd. I learned something new.
the big difference is with how the bridge is cut and how the pickup pole piece is set. with a wood bridge the G slot has to be further back for plain further forward for wound. so I suppose its more of a set up thing than a design thing.
Béla Scialoja I never studied classical guitar, I just experimented and tried to discover the most efficient and tone producing right hand approach. Thanks for listening.
I blame all my right hand deficiencies on the fact that I am a natural lefty who found playing guitar right handed easier to learn (just kidding).. it just felt natural that way.. plus you have so many more options in purchasing right handed guitars.. I have spent a lot of time thinking about right hand technique..I wanted to explore the way George Benson plays..His hand is mostly BELOW the strings and he just flows over them..But it was highly uncomfortable to me and awkward..I looked at some of the really dense tutorials that Tuck Andress puts out in which he explores in detail the movement of the pick- which for him is almost into and out of the plane of the face of the guitar..Very hard to conceptually understand. But it works well for him. I have had teachers who wanted me to lock my wrist, or use just a circular pick motion with only the thumb and index finger moving.. or sweep just using elbow motion entirely.. None of them work all the time.. Hybrid picking has been particularly difficult for me to coordinate.. I have tried thumb picks and no picks at all.. Nothing works all the time. I think in the end, I tend to play best when things are free-est and devoid of tension..Tension is the killer of speed and accuracy.. But the right hand is always a work in progress for me
Why not just use a thumb-pick? There's nothing you do with a flat-pick that I can't do with a thumb-pick plus playing finger-style too. Seems like a no-brainer. I even use a thumb-pick on bass guitar.
there are many ways to go, I have played with a thumb pick thru the years but have settled on this approach. I prefer to have flesh on the strings especially in the bass.
Whatever gets the job done is fine by me James, but just let me say that the reason a lot of people can't get the hang of a thumbpick is that they don't push it back far enough on their thumb. It helps if you push it back nearly al the way past your nail. Then it feels like it's more a part of you. If you just have it hanging on for dear life on the tip, it will always feel foreign. Cheers mate.
Before playing Classical guitar I was basically a rythim player with a pick both electric and acoustic. Now, after so many years playing Classical (total fingerstyle for those not familiar) I'm terrible with a pick. It's so foreign to me now. I watch you jazzers and metal players and I'm fascinated with your alls sweeps and hybrid etc. Like anything else hours and hours of practice and playing. Thank you Tim! Always enjoy your videos. Total respect!
Your playing is both intimidating and inspiring. Great lesson as per usual Tim!
Thanks for your continued generosity.
Cool almost like a manic trick sleight of hand how you control that pick....so fast changing and smooth with the pick then without. Amazing sir Tim thanks for showing that pick transition technique.
Thanks Tim! Always so articulate, always informative, always so good.
Thanks so much. Sleight of hand, indeed. I have so much trouble with hybrid picking that it tends to be either or for. Have to work on it
Looking the same every stroke is so important and struggle with it. You are truly an inspiration. Thanks
This is a great video and a reminder to do whatever works. I've been struggling so much with William Leavitt's book as I try to go 100% pick as instructed instead of using the hybrid picking I learned when I was much younger. I think it's time to ease up on the dogma of Leavitt (who was responding to a lack of pick-oriented instruction material for guitarists at the time) and just do what works as long as my reading stays sharp and my time is tight.
Totally agree.
Your picking style is pretty much exactly like mine, tucking the pick opens you up to so much more diversity and is integral to my sound and music now. Michael Landau is a real master of this too, he seems to be able to shift very quickly with no break in the music.
You jazz cats blow my mind with your technique, having been raised on folk, country, bluegrass, blues and rock. I was never into jazz very much, except for Kessel and Django, but then I found a Timothy Lerch video many years ago, then Fred Archtop, and since then, countless others, although I still love Tim and Fred the most. They don't waste any notes, and are both great musicians, besides being incredible guitar players. If you play like Tim does, my hats off to you too..!
Always learn from you and relax when listening. Thanks.
Excellent explanation based on solid technique.
The gypsy jazz style uses the floating wrist so all string muting is done with left hand technique, but on electric archtop would you use some right hand palm muting. Especially on playing lead to try and keep the tone warm. Keep up the good work, any advice most welcome. From Devon, England.
Fascinating, and something for me to try. I have only just developed something of a finger style, and to be able to swap to pick with similar facility to you Tim, would be of great benefit to me. Many thanks.✌️
Hey Tim! Great lesson.
It would be a pleasure to hear you do a cover in style of Parkers "Laura"...
Great lesson , thank you!!, greetings from Argentina
Thanks so much for sharing!!
Hi Tim, thanks for the excellent lesson. Just wondering, when playing fast single note runs with fingers, do you alternate thumb and index?
I often alternate thumb/ one or some combination like thumb/one thumb/two. Ultimately though I don’t use a fixed pattern because I let the music dictate what the fingers do rather than the other way around.
Hi, when doing finger style or hybrid, do you ever use your right hand pinky to pluck strings ? Always wondered. Thanks.
Yes I use the pinky all the time.
cool. Thanks!
Hi Tim! Hope you are doing well. Just wondering if you use the round side of the pick and not the point. Please let me know what side are you using.
I usually use the pointy tip of a fender extra heavy.
@@TimLerchGuitar Thank you Tim.
Tim, have you considered using a wound 3rd?
this guitar was designed and set up for a plain 3rd. I use wound 3rds on my other archtops.
Timothy Lerch I was just curious. It is great with a plain 3rd. I've heard of guitars being setup for a plain 3rd but never designed for a particular string, either plain or wound 3rd. I learned something new.
the big difference is with how the bridge is cut and how the pickup pole piece is set. with a wood bridge the G slot has to be further back for plain further forward for wound. so I suppose its more of a set up thing than a design thing.
Tim, I'm wondering, did playing classical guitar have any part in developing your fingerstyle technique? If not, how'd you do it?
Béla Scialoja I never studied classical guitar, I just experimented and tried to discover the most efficient and tone producing right hand approach. Thanks for listening.
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Are the f-holes painted on or is it holow body?
what guitar is that?
Grez TL Custom
What kind of pick is that? Thickness and all?
I blame all my right hand deficiencies on the fact that I am a natural lefty who found playing guitar right handed easier to learn (just kidding).. it just felt natural that way.. plus you have so many more options in purchasing right handed guitars..
I have spent a lot of time thinking about right hand technique..I wanted to explore the way George Benson plays..His hand is mostly BELOW the strings and he just flows over them..But it was highly uncomfortable to me and awkward..I looked at some of the really dense tutorials that Tuck Andress puts out in which he explores in detail the movement of the pick- which for him is almost into and out of the plane of the face of the guitar..Very hard to conceptually understand. But it works well for him. I have had teachers who wanted me to lock my wrist, or use just a circular pick motion with only the thumb and index finger moving.. or sweep just using elbow motion entirely.. None of them work all the time..
Hybrid picking has been particularly difficult for me to coordinate.. I have tried thumb picks and no picks at all.. Nothing works all the time.
I think in the end, I tend to play best when things are free-est and devoid of tension..Tension is the killer of speed and accuracy.. But the right hand is always a work in progress for me
If Chuck Berry was still alive he would have loved that guitar.
Why not just use a thumb-pick? There's nothing you do with a flat-pick that I can't do with a thumb-pick plus playing finger-style too. Seems like a no-brainer. I even use a thumb-pick on bass guitar.
there are many ways to go, I have played with a thumb pick thru the years but have settled on this approach. I prefer to have flesh on the strings especially in the bass.
Timothy Lerch Yeah I tied a thumb pick since I love Scotty Moore's playing but for the life of me I can't use a thumb pick so I just use my fingers.
Whatever gets the job done is fine by me James, but just let me say that the reason a lot of people can't get the hang of a thumbpick is that they don't push it back far enough on their thumb. It helps if you push it back nearly al the way past your nail. Then it feels like it's more a part of you. If you just have it hanging on for dear life on the tip, it will always feel foreign. Cheers mate.
Great player....terrible teacher