Timeline for With respect to right hand guitar technique, what does it mean to not scoop?
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| Apr 7, 2015 at 14:59 | history | edited | Rockin Cowboy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 7, 2015 at 11:00 | comment | added | aeroNotAuto | kiprainey clarified in the original question, but +1 for your patience while spoon feeding me until i figured out up from down | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 20:41 | comment | added | aeroNotAuto | ohhhh it totally makes more sense now that you put it in the context of rhythm guitar | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 20:19 | comment | added | Rockin Cowboy | @aeroNotAuto Yes - I think you are getting it. Most beginning guitarist or those who don't play really fast picking patterns tend to scoop their picking hand down past the strings and then come back up. That is a good way to play rhythm guitar because you can get your wrist swinging in time with the rhythm like a pendulum. But it will slow you down if you are doing fast picking. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:54 | comment | added | aeroNotAuto | sorry if i'm being dense, but i don't get what direction you mean by the ground. if i'm standing, playing an electric, toward the ground takes me away from the strings i'm playing/prevents me from playing the strings i want. we are talking about the same thing, right? for a right handed guitar, left hand moving about the fretboard, right hand nearly stationary, picking notes on the g and b strings (unless you mean while tapping). is scooping common in that people will downpick and follow through with their hand, moving it in the picked direction, and then have to return to the string? | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:43 | history | edited | Rockin Cowboy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:30 | history | edited | Rockin Cowboy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:29 | comment | added | Rockin Cowboy | @aeroNotAuto Not closer to bridge closer to the ground. If you are playing a fast run on the 2nd and 3rd strings - pretend like those are the rails of a railroad track and your picking hand is the train. Don't let the train get off the track. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:25 | comment | added | aeroNotAuto | by scoop below the neck you mean move toward the bridge? is this related to your comment about straying too far away from the strings to be picked? i am unsure why the pick would be farther from the strings when picking near the bridge, and closer to the strings when picking near the neck. i certainly could see lots of wasted motion if the picking hand were moving between the neck and bridge repeatedly, though. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:22 | history | answered | Rockin Cowboy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |