when you look at some guys play guitar, they manage to pick moving just their wrist and using no other muscle in the arm. how the fuck do they do this? ive heard its something to do with relaxation, but i cant seem to do it at all.

any help?

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That kind of picking technique is the result of alot of focused and slow practice with a metronome. There are two things you have to realize to develop that kind of picking technique.

1) Play with, and off of, ONLY the tip of the pick.
In other words, don't "swat" your picking hand when you pick. You should move as little as possible after you've picked a note. You should only be playing with the very tip of the pick so you'll have the least friction possible to go to the next note. Feel the tip of the pick go off and on the string(s). It doesn't matter if you're a wrist picker, elbow picker, or even a combination of both. Something that's helped me and many other players develop this feeling/knowledge is a practice aid known as a Stylus Pick. I highly recommend it if you're serious about developing killer picking. I've even gone beyond what it's supposed to be used for (alternate picking) and used it to develop my sweeping, tremelo and downpicking with it.

2) The same position you hold the pick when you play fast has to be the same position you have it in when you play slow.
This is a tip from a Michael Angelo video (Speed Kills) that is some of the best advice I ever got. This ensures that you won't go to a totally different picking method when you're just playing and start making sloppy mistakes.
Hold the pick the way you think feels the best and don't deviate from it. Usually this "best" way to hold the pick is whatever way you hold it that enables you to tremelo the longest without tensing up.

Everybody's different but I've found that these two things helped my picking technique the most to get where it's at.

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thanks for the advice, how big is that pick? im so used to jazz 3s now, is it around that size?

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Not necessarily. I never did the whole 'slow things down and use a metronome' type of practicing, and I have no problem picking properly. Using my wrist for picking was just something i never had a problem with. If you rest your palm on the bridge then you're not going to be able to use the rest of your arm to pick, and I've just always been in the habit of doing that.

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Well it's not really meant to be used for playing... it's a practice tool.
It's about the size of a Jazz III, little bigger, with a sharp cone tip you use for picking development w/ excersises it comes with.

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ah ok, thanks for the tip. ill look into getting one.

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done some research. does it really help that much? most of the reviews i have read have been pretty negative about it.....

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I certainly can't say anything bad about them, and I've been using them since 1999. For around five bucks it stops bad picking habits from being formed and it trains you "how" to pick the strings for maximum speed and efficiency - not a bad deal, I think. Alot of people that trash them don't have the patience to stick with practicing with one (it will piss you off alot at first when you realize you have to change your picking technique), or they don't want to what it's trying to teach you. They're only meant to be used for practice or warmup time anyways.

To each his own...

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yeah thanks for that, i think ill get one. i dont have a problem with practising a lot and changing my picking technique because about a year after i first started playing i had a terrible left hand technique and i saw how through patience and practice i could sort it out and now after ive done it i have a better left hand technique than anyone i know who plays guitar


thanks for the tip man, hope itll pay off.

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