Thank you mate, well I hope in some small way this video may help. I couldn't really find much material where people really try to show picking in detail etc hence why I made this video. Wishing you all the very best with it 👍🎸🙏
Un des guitaristes les plus sympathiques, les plus doués et les plus pédagogues et qui, malgré tout son talent et son succès grandissant, reste humble et encore accessible ! UN très grand merci, Monsieur HUTCHINGS !
I've struggled with anchoring mt ring finger on my picking hand ...not sure if it hindered me or what ...but now that I know you do an anchor point ...I'm a little more relieved ...you're one of my favorites Alex ...Thank you
Thank you kindly, Alex. I hope that one day I will see you play live in Poland or in the area. It would be my dream come true. I already saw Greg Howe in 2018 and Guthrie Govan in 2019. Now it is the time to see you 😃Best wishes from Poland! 👍
@@AlexHutchingsMusic thank you so much 🙏 I noticed your picking technique is outstanding..! But most of the times I do alternate picking or just downs/ups with legato playing but your ‘economy picking’ is so new to me and very hard; everything what is new you need time to adept😇
Man, please read this, you just solved all of my problems. I used to pick like you used to before like using the finger tips and thumb for holding the pick, Now after shifting to what you showed in this video, my playing speed literally doubled, and the note clarity, time signature, sweeps, alternate picking speed, everything became crystal perfect and exactly how I imagined I wanted to play, I have been playing since 5 years, and no one corrected this for me. I always thought the problem is my left hand, that it is slow and can't coordinate with my right hand at all. Turns out it was always the way I hold my pick. Thank you so much for this video, I just can't express how deeply this 1 thing has affected my guitar playing. I can now play all the fast solos and riffs I was stuck on, In just a day. Thank you again💜
I used to hold the pick like Petrucci. I my early days i had real struggel to find that sweet spot. But after a few months and a lot of clinic's from John, i understood the importans of anatomy.
I think Alex H. is the best and most beautiful hand pick handler ever of course his arts of music over all (complete package) the sounds everything total Artist in this age, God bless you sir Alex H., you're no. 1
Effortless and so precise, I'm a sucky picker so his is solid info, thanks for taking us into the finer details of your picking technique 🎸 Awesome stuff! 😎🎸🎶
Time 2 time i come again heare at your channel just to listen some pretty and elegant phrases, even in this kind of content, educational. It is very beautiful your art dude, my compliments as a classical guitarrist.
@@AlexHutchingsMusic thank you for reply. Being 48 I have never done any guitar course from beginning to the end until pandemic came. I decided to do something different and over year ago took up FG guitar school sweep picking course. What a great discovery ;-) And I have been practicing with metronome since then. I am two chapters away from finishing it. Amazing that sweeping made me better alternate picker as well. Anyway you play is on another level and I have watched your channel for years. Keep up a good work, as watching you play motivates bedroom players as myself to more effort. Thank you for your work.
I remember when I 'discovered' economy picking for myself - in my naive younger years I thought I had found something nobody else knew about. It was like unlocking a secret power (or an extra 'gear' as Frank would say) that made picking super fast super easy - then I discovered Frank and his teaching materials and realised that this was a well established technique that extended far beyond the basic applications I was using it for. Great lesson Alex - cheers.
Thanks for sharing Alex 🙏. It was helpful 🙏. Havent seen such detailed video in youtube on picking . Learned a lot from you over the years . You are so kind and humble , inspite of so busy life , you still able to find time replying to all comments🙂. Great feeling to communicate with you for all the fans ❤🙂
My pleasure! I do try... I've been very quiet over the years on social media so finally I'm trying it.. All the very best and I'm glad you're enjoying it. 👍🎸🙏
Thank you for this a Lot! I've been struggling with sweeping for a long while, realized my pick is parallel to the strings. Tried with a slight angle, and felt the effort needed to go through a string drop to something like 60%. So this will be interesting to practice more, thanks! \,,/
Why are you so good!? :D been stalk... following you since your "summer of love" track some time ago. Nice to see you wrecking it as you always do! Cheers man!
That's fantastic... Well I'm pleased you enjoyed it. In the playlist are the other playing examples even more close up to help further. All the best with it mate. 👍🎸🙏
Once more, thanks for sharing your experience and your advanced knowledge of guitar playing . Being myself a guitar teacher I totally agree with you about left hand position, and the way of holding the pick effortlessly 🙏🏻 wish you all the best and sorry for my bad english... I'm French lol
This is very reassuring Alex. I'm a self taught player and started around 1987. I naturally developed economy picking although I didn't know it was a thing back then. It was only when I saw other people playing alternate picking that I thought I was doing something wrong and considered relearning but I'm now glad I didn't! I also anchor my little finger on the body and again, tried to stop doing it as I thought it was a bad habit but seeing someone of your colossal ability doing it has made me realise that it's actually ok! Thanks Alex!
That picking technique is a dream!!!!!! I want to get there! Thank you for inspiring us mortals to keep trying to climp up Olympus!!! Really nice mate!
Oh wow never realized you used a tortex sharp. I always wondered if it helped with note accuracy and I think your style in tandem with them is kind of the proof of concept lol.
Thanks Alex, your advice on how to tilt the pick has been very useful. It helped me improve my picking at times when it was losing flow and gain speed, especially when changing strings up or down. Greetings!!!
Wonderful stuff Alex, Ive only in the last few years started to relax my picking hand more & this has helped me a great deal. And I also hold my pick almost identical to you, cheers man :)
Many many thanks for sharing Alex. Much appreciated. Interesting to hear your experience and your having changed the plectrum holding style after several years playing. I will have a go at this technique. You make it look so effortless. 👍😃 Keep up the great playing as you always do.
Thanks for the video! Very useful, I used to play exactly like that, (bar the little finger) but now use a flatter string attack and hold it like you used to. I also convinced myself at 21 that if I alternate picked my technique would improve. 15 years later I've just ditched that idea completely and am now only economy picking. What I've realised is that I think I've always been an economy picker. It gets a bad rap but makes complete sense to me. Now I'm really enjoying being able to play without the constraints of alternate picking. And it sounds great. Economy till I die! p.s. I love Frank's playing too, so that helps!
Keep em coming buds...just noticed this one today...I've been playing guitar for a few years but just learning on my own and hit a wall. Would love move instructionals for us wannabe rockers. All the Best!
Wow! just found your channel and was shocked to realize that I have been working too hard at what was so simple. I have started using this approach and it not only works better for me, it has added some great options for tone and harmonics. I initially learned to play in the late 80's and have been stuck trying to regain my skills as a result of having injured my hands while in the military. Thanks for this video cheers mate
Excellent playing as always! I'm working through your art of improv courses at the moment... having a blast and really enjoying it as well as your stellar playing.
I use a similar picking technique you and frank use and always found it great especially for sweeping but I must admit I do incorporate a bit of the Yngwie when I use fast alternate picking but that is just what works for me. That is what is great about the guitar there are no rules, do what works for you and be happy 😃 🤘👍
Amazing. I have been playing with my fingernail as if it were a pick (instead of fingerstyle) the entire time - since I find this most comfortable. But nowadays I am coming to realise a pick would help my speed, accuracy AND clarity a ton. Adjusting has been insanely hard but I feel like you targeted all the areas in which I have been unsure how to improve. Gave me a lot of inspiration to crack on! Thanks!
Amazing !!! Thank you very much for the info. I've been following you quite a lot, and also know that you use for most part or you style the economy picking approach, and for me your technically is what id looking for and always admire, of course not putting a side the frank gambale approach, but for me your approach is the way. Thank you again.
My pleasure man, I'm so pleased you are enjoying the videos... It's a great technique once you master it... Wishing you all the very best with it. Thank you man 👍🎸🙏
Thanks mate!! Great video, I hope you get as much back as I do from watching these videos. Ive been struggling getting any kinda speed when economy picking. Any tips I’d be very grateful. I hope you are well and life is treating you kindly!
Great video. I have such a hard time with economy picking, even after a lot of practice it always sounds very stilted and uneven, especially the more strings involved, and I don't often intuit how to start a sequence right away, i have to actually think about how to start it. But man, people good at it make me feel like I need to keep revisiting it. It has to be worth it.
Thanks mate, yes well it's one of those things once it clicks it becomes pretty natural and fun... Keep going at it mate. I'm sure it'll pay off in the end. 👍🎸🙏
Haha, I'm sure you can mate. I'm actually now offering 1-2-1 lessons so I can try to help you if you're interested. Here's a video explaining it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o2uI66AJ_os.html. All the best 👍🎸🙏
I still use your old grip but my downstrokes are played with the back edge of the pick (edge closest to palm) and upstrokes the front edge. Also some runs I initially found difficult turned out to be much easier by leading with an upstroke.
Interesting mate.... Yeah it's a very unique journey for us all, I'm glad you've found a way that works well for you mate... Thanks for watching and all the best 👍🎸🙏
I looove your birds’eye roasted maple neck and your clean and distordes tone is sooo great 🙃 By the way how do you get that tone and what’s your gear ? I know that’s a cringe question but I really need to change tone !! Keep up Mate 🤘
Thanks mate I'm glad you like it. No worries at all about the question. Here's a vid I made especially for this. Hope it helps. All the best ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0rS-Vk6XJvM.html
Hey Alex. I have struggled with sweeping for years. Almost to the point of obsessively dominating my practicing trying to master it. Any other tips to help there? I think more my right hand is not quite in sync. I have changed pics a few times over the years, been using a Jazz 3 for a while as I find if comfy. Do you always use the pointy chap or mix it up? Great video. Ta
