Pick Slide Guitar Lesson: 5 Techniques | Quick Tricks Pick Scrape 

Brilliant! Yeah there are way more types than just the standard pick scrape; when you start playing with effects like pitch shifters, flangers and delays you can get some really gnarly sounds!

Great to hear that Ethan! It's simple enough trick, but at the same time there is more you can do with it that might meet the eye!

Glad it was helpful! It's a easy enough technique, but there's a tonne of cool stuff you can do with it- Tom morello has some kickass solos that are pretty much just pick scraping, maybe with a bit of kill switch thrown in too!

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Glad I could help!

Really glad to hear it, hope you have a lot of fun with these!

Glad it helped! It's a stupidly fun technique

Glad to hear it Stefa! Thought if I could put all these tricks in to a nice short video that would be better than wading through some 20 long minute lesson 🤘

Great, glad this demystified it! It's just a class trick to have up your sleeve

@@JbfMusicGuitar most definitely. Thanks for the video have a good one :D

You can always practice quite, then turn up more when your confident!

I'd rather actually play louder to hear my mistakes to correct them!

Awesome. Most of the time I use a Jim Dunlop Tortex 0.88, but some times use the 1.14 and 0.74 (or close to that!) Using the side/back is the best way to keep the tip from getting destroyed, although you can re-sharpen a pick with a bit of old carpet- just running it quickly along and it'll sand a bit off

Thanks dude! In all honesty I really can't remember what I used for this video! I think I just cranked up the overdrive/distortion to get that really grindy sound 🤘

my favorite way to do the scrape is to scrape down to the 12th fret, then bring my left hand further down past my picking hand and hammer-on 24 and slide down the rest with my finger while barring the strings. i don't know who came up with it, but i just think it looks really stylish and less nerdy.

Bare Kunckles in the neck and bridge and stock in the middle (I'd spent all my budget on the humbuckers, lol!)

I might have seen Vai to something a bit like that before? Sounds flashy for sure!

Can't beat a good old pick scrap, have you got any favourties? The one in UFO's doctor, dotocr always hits the spot for me!

Awesome! Can't say I know that song, but glad to have demystified that sound for you 🤘

@@JbfMusicGuitar Haha thanks man. I always thought it was a voilin messing around for some reason lol. You earned a new sub :) Great content👌🏿🌹

@@spoderman6969 Cheers dude!

Never heard that song before, pretty brutal! Really cool how they're using texture to create the vibe instead of just the notes

Any pick will do! But these are a few things to consider- A thicker one will bend less, might be easier to use. Sharksfin picks have ridges which are great for pickscrapes. Metal picks will give a different sound (you can use the edge of a coin as well!) A bigger pick gives you more area to slide across the strings. Hope that helps? Are you getting the type of sound you want from your pick scrapes?

Awesome, thank you! I try my best to get back to everyone

Have you got any clips of him doing it?

Good question! Sort of... If you use a clean tone, it's going to sound more like a slide than having that 'scarping' sound, it'll also be quite quiet. But, it will still make a noise, and that might be the sound you're looking for?

Nice one Leonardo! Great point of reference, Muse have some killer tracks 🎸🎶

The rock slide thing? Just hit the strings a bit with your left hand and slide it down the neck; if you've got enough gain you'll get that "neeeow" type sound :)

There's probably some truth to that- I think I tended to use the back of Jazz IIIs (that rounded bit), not the most convenient thing, but made a better sound!

@@JbfMusicGuitar I think it's mostly with thicker picks, tried a .70 nylon and the pick scrapes are delightful!

@@rafaelgutierrez6275 Awesome 🤘

Only one way to find out... Yeah, it'll work fro sure! But you only really get that grotty sound when there's some overdrive or distortion on

Good shout!

Hmmm, I'd try cranking up the gain/distortion a bit more - did none of these tips work?

@@JbfMusicGuitar Well i tried, but on my guitar it just doesn't seem to work. maybe i should try with other strings? Any recommendations? 'cause i need new strings anyway...

Yeah, if you push more 'in to' the string with the edge of the pick you'll get that scrape sound. If you push it down against the fretboard, it'll tend to make more or that slide-y scrape sound. Let me know if that helps? 🤘

@@JbfMusicGuitar Thanks! It helped.

@@hotdogshake4764 Awesome

3:10 - Go over that there, in a nutshell; enough gain and some left hand muting/string dampening are pretty key. Let me know if that helps out?

@@JbfMusicGuitar thats kind of what I was after but not exactly, might be a lot to ask but to see exactly what I mean watch Cole Rollands cover of Bring Me To Life and skip to 3:33 in his video

When you pick the strings behind the nut?? Never heard it called that before, thanks for that!

@@JbfMusicGuitar no nut scrape just sounds funny man. You’re overthinking it 😂

Do you have enough gain? Also make sure you've not got a heavy noise gate, or lots of compression on ^lemme know if those sort it out?

I have lots of gain and the noise gate is pretty heavy but i dont know how to change that im using a blackstar id core 20 btw

You'd need to have a look in the manual, or maybe pop on youtube?

Very true!

Oh no! Hmmm, try adding more gain/overdrive and make sure to angle the pick in to the strings! Let me know if that helps?

@@JbfMusicGuitar thanks, I’ll try when I get back home!

@@gginchat7079 Cool, hope you get it working!

It's as simple as that! Just slap your hand on the fretboard and slide your down from the 15th fret (or wherever) towards the nut; you'll need enough drive/distortion to get a bigger sound, or you can strike the strings. Let me know if that makes sense? Hopefully it does!

@@JbfMusicGuitar ah having enough dirt is the key i see. how about the double(?) pick scrape--slayer style? would i scrape the strings with my nails?

@@yomuthabyotch I'm not too sure, have you got any sound clips as an example of that Slayer pick scrape?

@@JbfMusicGuitar i dont remember which specific song--they did it quite often. sometimes they would scrape four times. im just not sure if its a scrape or a slide.

@@yomuthabyotch Hmmm, hard to tell without a sample. Could be delay, or the guitarist doing pick scrapes after one another?