TOP 10 Guitarists with WEIRD Picking Techniques!
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- We count down the top ten guitarists who have GOOFY ways of picking! Some of them are just downright silly! Did I miss anybody???
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James Hetfield: 👌⬇️
Kirk Hammett: 🖕⬇️⬆️
@Iosif Mihai bruh what
Haha! (downpicking)
@Iosif Mihai wth does that even mean
I can’t tell you what perv means kid if you are older you should know what pervert means
Pat Metheny: 🤏⬆️
May Eddie Van Halen and his wierd picking technique rest in peace.
Rest in pease Eddie
r.i.p.
Rest in rip
@@stnes0228 bruh
R.I.P
0:53 Synyster Gates
2:15 Kirk Hammet
3:16 Tosin abasi
4:27 Michael Angelo Batio
5:44 JAMES HIMSELF
6:55 Eddie-VAN-Halen
7:56 Pat Methney
8:56 (STEVIE T) STEVE MORSE
9:49 Willie Adler
12:04 Marty Friedman
Thanks, but James Himself?
@@Salisboury On 1 January 1992, the municipality of Sørøysund (population: 2,341) was merged with the town of Hammerfest (population: 6,909) to form a new, larger municipality called Hammerfest.[5]
MAB is my favorite guitarist EVH is second
The fact that stevie can do all the weird picking technique is amazing
Except for synysters sweeping lol
@@landonschamel I mean it's so weird 😂
Marty Friedman was definitely the first person I thought of when I saw that title :D
Ya kinda gotta...hes a true weirdo
Same
Triple M same
Triple M same here...
Me as well.
I only use upstrokes.
I play bass.
I do upstrokes with my fingers but alternate picking with a pick
who are you? Davie504?
Impossible.
Me too!!
@Ameurstihn we don' t do that here
I got so happy when I found out Van Halen used his pick like I did. Since the very beginning I hold the pick with the middle finger and I always thought I was weird. When I watched a video of one of his live shows, he became more than the God he already was to me. I didn't feel alone in my weirdness anymore. RIP Eddie.
Me too!
He's not a God since there's only One God. He would just be a god in this case 👁️👅👁️
It's unfortunate that he isn't here anymore though
Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and Screaming Trees holds his bass pick with his middle finger
Same 👍
I always use 3 finger to hold my pick like James Hetfield
I've tried but when I do it I feel like I'm completely re learning how to play
Willie Adler’s picking hand is a jazz chord
You are so correct
That's brilliant
True
Tosin: “I’m freezing.”
Me: “but your fingers are like 90 degrees!”
Good job it's not 90°c. 😰
It's a reference to the nintey degree angle of his thumb, and temperature.
@@itz_a_boy1435 thanks I needed someone to dryly explain a simple joke.
@@sorrenblitz805 ..... mmmmmm
Nice dad joke 👍
A list I never knew I needed. Thanks Stevie!
What's funny is I play just like James Hetfield, I have my guitar low and I only down pick even in solos and master of puppets 😂
Only downpicking in solos is a terrible idea
Edit: and In certain riffs like battery
When Jimi Hendrix’s picking technique is
*teeth*
God.. I hope that guitar was 18
Fire 🔥
666 likes
Sometimes tongue
If this dude had a stroke, no one would notice.
@@MJTXAZ OOOOO
@@MJTXAZ I think he just meant that he is so spastic that people would think a stroke is just him acting normal. Either way Stevie T is incredible and I love his personality
@@MJTXAZ Nope. I never said I thought his joke was funny or made sense lol.
Maybe a fit or seizure instead of a stroke
I suspect it's more cocaine than anything...or life long isolation...or both.
I always thought it was cool how Glenn Tipton stuck his pinky out even when he's doing those sick sweeps in Painkiller.
Most people don't know this but one of the key factors that makes Marty's sound unique is his strange right hand. The flexed curvature is basically a modified form of the rare Gypsy Jazz style picking, which was invented to create a louder, more aggressive pick attack. He leverages a massive downward pickslant and uses circular thumb picking to get around the string change issue (for example when the pick is below the string and he needs to move to the string above). You can't reach as much consistent speed output with Gypsy style picking as you can with traditional picking but you get MUCH more power. Think of it like the difference between an AK47 and a metronome. AK47 shoots extra fast and clean in short bursts but then soon gets out of control if you keep shooting without rest, but the sound is dynamic and powerful while a metronome maintains consistent high speed, but the sound is rather weak and mechanical.
what about an ak47 metronome? That's how they keep time in the Middle East
@@vintagerealityvr Facts
why did you make fun of my picking technique?
Oh hi james hatfiel
The actual fuck mate
@JamesHetfield
You're not James. Tables can't type.
👌
My picking technique is using the whammy bar on my Guitar Hero controller
Lol
Same
DragonForce technique
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For a few weeks I have been teaching myself to pick down as fast as James Hetfield, and I've gotten kinda close, but I'm not as fast as James yet. I even hold a pick exactly like him, too.
I have learned the open string part of Nothing Else Matters on guitar, and I am teaching myself to play parts of One, Creeping Death, and Master of Puppets on my guitar because I got a Kirk Hammett guitar lessons book for Christmas.
Maybe you wanna try picking with your own style like using two fingers only. It works for me in playing Metallica's trash metal tracks (all downpicks and keeping up with the tempo).
Always fun to watch.. I hope Steve get 3M subscribers before 2021 ends.
Don't forgett Brian May he picks with a coin
Maurice Laffra using a six pence is not a picking technique
I tried using a quarter to pick with my acoustic when I first started playing guitar and it felt like shit. I knew using it would ruin my strings pretty fast, so I just used the celluloids lying inside the bag I got with the guitar. Props to him if it works for him.
So do Billy Gibbons and Me
@@coffinfeeder7732 Brian May doesn't pick with a coin as an alternative for a plectrum for any sort of technical reason. He does it for tone.
What dies he im Hauge Queen fan but i did not knew that
Everybody else: buys picks
Zakk wylde: *laughs as he grows his own*
So your telling me Zakk Wylde can tremolo pick and economy pick with his finger nails ?????
@@racc7805 just his thumb nail
I have long fingernails in my right hand, I hold my index and thumb together like I'm holding a pick and just use the index for picking (I mean I also use picks but the other one is just as efficient)
Well they aren't the sultans of swing
i don't think zakk can do economy picking lol
I have always held the pick with two fingers, I never realized it was weird until recently. I think it just gives more control and makes it easier to grip the pick
Even Carlos Santana uses two fingers while picking.
I’ve been playing for years since I taught myself in high school, and only now am I discovering that
(1) using three fingers to hold the pick is weird (feels the most comfortable / natural way to me)
(2) I downpick everything, including solos (but sometimes strum on choruses)
(3) I guess I play like James Hetfield and have never realized until now
I actually pick like Kirk, and it's really helpful
Your middle finger is out so u can tap with it during solos
i meen you'r not wrong but still....
i pick like james hetlield and tap like kirk
i do both James Hetfield technique and Kirk Hammett technique and ive been playing for 2 years and i know almost every song except load and reload
I do the kirk because my my finger just goes like that but it is useful
@@diegosalazar5949 same
Steve: picking techniques
Davie504: *we don't do that here*
This is illegal
😘😾😾😾😾😾😾😾❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😾❤️😾❤️❤️😾😾❤️😾😾😾❤️😾😾
Slap like now
Jacopo Parenti Weird slap techniques.
OMG! That's illegal. I'm calling the police now
How can you forget the G.O.A.T. himself
The man, the myth, the legend
The one and only Lil' Wayne
Marty's technique isn't goofy when he's playing rhythm but when he's soloing, it looks like his wrist is in a headlock
marty freidman has always stuck in my head as the wierdest looking technique. its great to see how other people play as it can inspire so much
His picking hand, to me, strongly resembles zakk wyldes
@@JohnVo423 My picking hand naturally goes Marty Friedman style as well. Downside is that palm muting is tricky.
@@usuallyclueless4477 Marty has plenty of times explained he doesn't like palm muting all that much, his picking allows for a lot of openness and he can easily still mute due to amp compression and whatnot.
James Hetfield really said “👌⬇️🎸”
Lars ulrich really said he’s 👉of the FOOKING BAND!!!
lmao
he got us all
translation: YEAHEAH
Kirk hammett said 🖕
Ohhh man, I haven't laughed this good at a video in a while.
You are a funny guy. The scene in the car looking at the “accident” was genius!😂😂
6:19 Stevies reaction:
1st time: funny
2nd time: confused
3rd time: worried
4th time: scared
Chrissi Jenkins l m a o
Ok
Nathan Cabiles slapp like now
I love watching this part over and over lol
The weirdest guitarist picking techinque is lil Wayne’s picking
Joshua Williams not picking at all.
It's actually his thumb
Not guitarist (or musician)at all
You could run over 50 flaming toaster ovens with a monster truck and it would sound better than lil Wayne
@@D3adbatsarecool Yup !
Interestingly, Misha Mansoor's way of holding his pick was sort of an important aspect of the sound he pioneered. He mostly holds it normally now, but he used to hold it with his index and middle finger on one side and his thumb on the other. It changed the pick angle to where it gave the note that strong attack that's associated with djent
That's considered an abnormal way to hold the pick? That's what I've always done since I started playing back in 2002.
@@sorrenblitz805 yeah, it’s mostly considered “normal” to hold it with your index and thumb. Holding it with 3 fingers is technically considered poor technique, but honestly who cares? You play how you wanna play
this video deserves a part 2!
I hold my guitar pick sideways ( so the pointy end if facing upwards ), so I'm picking the string with the shorter, rounded end instead of the sharp end. Then I file down the edge of my guitar picks with sandpaper to give it a bit of a 'grip' on the strings when picking. Works great for me, not sure if anyone else picks this way.
Oh yeah I do too and everyone thinks it’s weird
I do. It seems to be the only way I can trem-pick.
Purple plectrums makes one just for you it's called the blade look into it my man
Haha, I’m exactly the same. Played this way for 16+ years, haha. I was self-taught in bedroom reading tab books without the help of videos. so I guess that probably played a major part in it.
That technique helped me alternative pick
Dont forget james hetfield picks like that for 2 hours every other night
The ultimate down pick
He had the hybrid-cyborg right hand 🤘🏾🤘🏿🤘🏽🤘🏼🤘🏻
I only down stroke too, fuck an up stroke
@@RyanDMoore Upstrokes suck
I still dont understand how he doesn’t at least have 5 mil stevie t you are my favorite TH-camr. Real guitarists don’t get enough love 🙏
You got amazing guitarists in that video. 😃👍🏻 Some of my all-time favorites.
Quote from Joe Satriani:''There's no correct way of holding a pick,don't ever let anybody tell you that.You pick the way,it's comfortable for *you* . Look at Marty Friedman,people say he's not picking correct and I could never pick like this,but for him it works,he's obviously comfortable with it and is an amazing player.''
greekfreak1980 One of the best, most well rounded players on the planet
But it's not healthy at all!
You just saved me the trouble posting this. Theres a difference between wrong and different.
Tru dat
@@2213klon different bodies. This is similar to telling others how to eat.
I just realised I use the same picking style as James hetfield and didn’t even notice😂
Not gonna lie i was always doing this and thought it was wrong, kept trying to hold it the "correct" way but always sunconciously reverted to the hetfield. Now i know he uses that technique, i aint gonna worry about it so much and just play what feels comfortable.
Same here mate... Thumb and two fingers for life
Yeah I was always the same but was never really bothered about it cause it works. Now I know Hetfield does it and that makes it cooler
same🤘🏻
Yes me too
I’m so glad I found this video…the first thirty seconds are an exact scenario I just went through when I started doing courses on TrueFire….I don’t hold my pick like they were telling me I needed to…I hold my pick like you Steve T.
awesome vid! :D
*Before watching I bet Marty Friedman is in the top 3 at least!*
Same, but, to be fair, I got the name of the style wrong(yet I kinda figured I would). I'd been hoping it was the Bob Dole.
>_>
Hi marko love your vids 🤗
Marko Pegan Didn’t expect to see you here. Really enjoy your vids.
But his picking style doesn't seem so ughhhh wyaak to me like its weird but its okay it seems smooth and just not disgusting like that Log guitarist , also marty can play some real mind boggling shits :)
Before reading the comments I bet that Marty would be on the top comments
Jimi Hendrix picks with his teeth😂 he would be on here
@GBR and I wonder where he got that from
@RLD he could beat only a couple times
@RLD *but
he only did it a couple times and he wasn't even that good at it
@@badq.concerts
The chitling circuit
I have always preferred my thumb to picks and recently started trying thumbpicks instead I like that they don't hinder fingerpicking at all like a pick does (hybrid picking)
This is one of your funniest videos - hilarious from start to finish. 14:05 was gold.
Where tf is lil wayne?
Probably somewhere failing at guitar...
Kurt Cobain In the mood, just like you Kurko crazy Shotguns Bain \m/
Kurt Cobain that was what I was thinking
He uses his thumb, not a pick.
He’s too skilled for picks
Now, Brian May doesn't necessarily have a "Strange Picking Technique", but he does pick with a coin.
Keevx , actually he uses the coin as a pick and at the same time alternates ring and middle finger, sounds like two hands. A bit strange.
When you showed how easy it was to do Kirt Hammett's picking style I laughed my ass off 🤣.
Actually, StevieT, if you're familiar with Frank Zappa, he used upstrokes almost all the time as well with HIS guitar playing. Frank was a pretty good guitarist as well. Great right-hand speed and very smooth legato technique. AND he started the careers of big-time guitarist Steve Vai and percussion elite Terry Bozzio. I never knew Pat Metheny played with a lot of upstrokes and I watched this video a lot.
I was waiting for Zappa too 😁
3:21 this is called hitchhiker’s thumb, it technically counts as being double jointed, the thing is that you are born with joints that can bend 90°
do you know the name of the song he's playing?
@@legoobi-wankenobi3080 Tosin is playing Mindspun, Steve is playing CAFO
All hitchhiker's thumbs are not created equal though, lol. Some curve much more extremely than others. I have a hitchhiker's thumb too, for instance, but it's nowhere near as far extremely bending as Tosin's. Tosin has a long thumb AND it bends back extremely far, even for a hitchhiker's thumb.
I have a hitchhikers thumb my friends are terrified of me
I jave a friend with that "mutation" and it and his obsessive personality makes him a monster at 2d fighting games especially King of Fighters and Street Fighter
RIP Eddie 😭
Oh my gosh I had to watch that part twice when you made the goofy sound And face about the car wreck hand at about 11 minutes 10 seconds I laughed so hard that was so funny
I didn't really know there was a proper way of picking when I first started to play, but once I did find out I was already in habit of doing it and couldn't break it. I pick like you, I pinch the pick with the pads of my fingers.
stevie t: makes fun of batios hair
also stevie t: used to have hair like batio
batio wears this ′′hair ′′ since the 80s though haha I really think its a wig :D
I have hair like that and I get questions about whether or not it's a wig and the answer is no its my real hair
Steve:
Shreds some insane sweep picking thing that most people can’t do.
Also Steve:
I can’t pick like this!
i was surprised he just picked it up and played cafo like that lol
3:28 I can do the exact same thing, it’s called hitchhiker’s thumb. When your thumb has an extra joint in it and it’s one of my favourite features about me
Marty was the person i immediately thought of! lol I'm starting to think there is no "proper" picking technique because it sure as hell didn't slow any of these guys down!
3:19 “it looks perfectly norm....OH MY GOD!”
I haven’t laughed that fucking hard in a while
The 90 degree angle on his thumb killed me xD
I think i missed it the first time cause im dead hahaha
I can do that
Not as good as him
I always found that the one with the grounded pinky was most effective for me. If I keep the pinky grounded on the body below the strings, I can just use muscle memory to make sure I'm picking the right string without having to watch my right hand. The pick gets held like Cartman's Jennifer Lopez and the middle and ring just fend for themselves. I've been told it's weird, but it just works.
The way Marty Friedman picks is the Oud picking technique.
I use a one finger picking technique, just insert direct into nostril.
Before I watch Synyster Gates & EVH is gonna be here and Marty Friedman for #1
Guitarist6494 hey man huge fan can you make top 10 emo or post hardcore or metalcore riffs or something.
Guitarist6494 man,we miss you on TH-cam.
NO LIL WAYNE IS NUMBER ONE
Guitarist6494 hey love your vids
EMINEM by looking at your profile pic, I thought that WE are number one
I personally have my hand closed (like a fist) and hold the pick with my thumb, index and middle finger. Never seen anyone else hold a pick like this but it gets the job done
i just respect steve’s dedication to his memes, bro got in his car and drove
6:54 Press F to pay tribute! Eddie Van Halen died today.
Pffft forget PRESSING, how about TAPPING to honor him even more! 🤘
F
F
F
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Jimi hendrix: "I uSe mY tEeTh"
That must taste weird
Pixie Minie tried it and it does taste weird.
E
I thought every one tryed this at least once...
I use my caps properly.
Bro, if a guitarrist, your left thumb is a broken thumb, lmao.
3:00
Oddly, I actually found his little therapy shrink joke soothing 😂😂😂
R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen will there be a tribute video Steve.
His thumb is gonna spit venom at me. LMAO!! You're a trip bro!! Great video as always.
3:53 that face was hilarious 😂😂💀
I learned the same way as James for two years and when I played with some friends they thought it was odd and bad that I couldn't do it for long. But I could go for a long time.
What about Mark Knopfler? He uses his thumb, pointer, and middle finger in place of a standard pick.
Thats called finger picking and its very common. All blues guys did it. The south had a lot of that with the banjo being a popular instrument as it was invented by slaves in the 17th century in the Caribbean
i think he used a pick to amplify the sound or something but also im pretty sure lindsey buckingham didn't use a pick either which probably comes from him starting as a classical player wheras with knopfler (as the previous person has stated) it comes from blues.
I came here to make a Mark Knopfler comment...kudos
It isn't that weird, it's just that some of his songs are impossible to play with a pick
I think it might be because he doesnt use a pick so his picking technique is nonexistent?
Absolutely knew Tosin was making the list.
@8:24 when I have a power-chord-section with palm-muted and sometimes picked notes, I up-stroke the normal-picked power-chords and pick the palm-muted down. the reason for that is that Dimebag did that quite a lot and I adopted it into my playing, it gives these chords a litte cremieness from the percussive sound of the blocked strings above them.
by the way, Marty Friedmans picking-technique is so wierd bechause he is muting the open strings with his arm.
Steve laughing with James Hetfield is the funniest thing
Lil Wayne's picking style is probably the best
Akshay Ravi Kumar that’s some advanced shit...
Akshay Ravi Kumar Lol😅
i'd said it's perfect :-)
Well, he's not a guitarist
Dane Mark Jo r/wooooosh
I use 3 fingers too, that's because I hold a pen the same way. Tried to correct it to the "right" way, but just doesn't quite work for me.
A lot of players change up their grip depending on what they're playing at the time. They might have one technique for playing string-skipping arpeggios and another for shredding. The right way is whatever works for you.
@@tantrispicks2440 What this guy said is right. Personally I play sweep picking with the pick directly pointed towards the body of the guitar and use a .056 pick. If I need the pick to be sturdy I choke the pick to barely a tip. The reason I use that thin of a pick and point it towards the strings is because it provides the most clarity, the pick is thin enough to just flop off the string to the next one. If you're gonna slowly strum a chord then it makes sense to use the same type of pick you would when strumming a chord and thin picks are popular among chord strummers.
The thin pick coupled with a picking style like Steve Morse is just a great way of gaining speed.
I naturally pick like Steve Morse so I get why he picks that way.
I’ve always used 3 fingers (Thumb, pointer finger, and middle finger) it makes my strumming technique look weird sometimes
Michelangelo went to home depot, got a mop- dyed it brown and super glued it to his head. Facts!
3:23 its frkn double joint dude, haha a nice insert afterwards))
8:23 Fun fact: When Paul Gilbert started learning guitar, all he used were upstrokes :P
Damn. I will always remember the first time I heard the song "I understand completely" from some guitar world sampler disc. I thought they were fucking with me but no, he's actually playing that shit.
I use pick like this
👌
Same
Is Steve Canadian? 🇨🇦
Sentinel hhahah language bro
Me too
Ha goteem
I have a Tobin Abasi thumb (only on right hand for some reason), hold pick with 3 fingers like James Hetfield and have little finger pointing like Steve Morse. The Steve Morse thing came from having little finger under the pick-up.
What’s funny is that my picking technique is similar to Steve Morse. I was never comfortable with a pick (I’m mostly a finger picker), so I naturally just started keeping my pinky on the guitar as an anchor to help me stay in place so I’m hitting the right strings, since I’m not a natural at using a pick lol
Stevie T your videos just brighten my day, tickle my fancy and butter my egg roll. Your faces, jokes and personality just make me happy thankyou.
I guess he's PICK-y about this list.
I regret NOTHING!!!
Jack's Film Orchard your pun both satisfies and sickens me
I never thought about it I just hold the pick the way it feels comfortable.
8:34 extra points for the perfect Napoleon dynamite reference 😂
RIP Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020) you're a legend.
Hes not
@@swiar_d7057 HE IS TOO!!!!!
@@MegadethFan9000 no legend is david gilmour and pewdipie but ill aceep your eddie van halen on maybe a master guitarist not a legend
@@swiar_d7057 EVH is a legend, Pewdiepie is dogshit
@@salvey3737 wtf did you say bout pewdipie if you dont like pewdipie you can pewDIEpie hes a legend
Smug guitarist: you’re not holding a pick correctly
Me: show him this video
lol in my opinion you hold that thing any damn way you please and what is comfortable to you because if you are not comfortable playing guitar then it hinders the creative process and most will want to just not play.
evilcowboy I agree
Well in my opinion every single guitarist finds his best way of playing if he tries his own picking style.
@@nihilusobscurio8380 absolutely. If a guitar player wants to be comfortable playing, he’s gotta play in whatever way he wants.
I just love this dude
Wow I thought i was the only one who "held" the pick incorrectly lol glad its not so wrong after all?? Lol thx for making this video. I recently discovered I did this same thing
We all hold the pick differently, it's just about comfort.
exactly, see my comment up there somewhere
I started off holding picks with 3 fingers kinda like Het but then I saw how my favorite guitarist played the way you see most people holding a pick and i was like “damn I wanna be that good!” And I forcefully changed my picking style and it actually helped so much lmao
Wheres Jimi Hendrix he can play with his teeth
Zakk Wylde can play with teeth too
Play with teeth is just show-FX, not useful for hi speed or different sounds that u can get changing picking style as u play.
Buddy Guy can play with his teeth
Some would consider this odd picking.. Stevie is not of these.
A lot of people can. Joe Satriani can do it with his lips.
I've always gripped the pick with the thumb and middle finger, using the index finger for support and control in angling the pick mid phrase.
Me too.
I’m always waiting for Steve to run into Brent Butt whenever he’s driving.
Funny stuff there Steve. Those guitarists were pretty talented. So what it the name of your technique. I guess it would be called the Stevie T Technique. Guess that kinda of rolls of your tongue nicely. Good job there Steve.
Incorrect. My technique is called the "Calalala" technique...
Haha.. Yeah ;) Calalala
The Stevie T Echnique?
Of course. How dumb of me.
CALALALA