TOP 10 Guitarists with WEIRD Picking Techniques! 

@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: 🤏⬆️

Rest in pease Eddie

r.i.p.

Rest in rip

@@stnes0228 bruh

R.I.P

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

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 👍

God.. I hope that guitar was 18

Fire 🔥

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Sometimes tongue

@@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.

Except for synysters sweeping lol

​@@landonschamel I mean it's so weird 😂

Only downpicking in solos is a terrible idea Edit: and In certain riffs like battery

Ya kinda gotta...hes a true weirdo

Same

Triple M same

Triple M same here...

Me as well.

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

what about an ak47 metronome? That's how they keep time in the Middle East

@@donthurtmyfeelingsplz Facts

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

Oh hi james hatfiel

The actual fuck mate

@JamesHetfield

You're not James. Tables can't type.

👌

I've tried but when I do it I feel like I'm completely re learning how to play

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

You are so correct

That's brilliant

True

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).

Chrissi Jenkins l m a o

Ok

Nathan Cabiles slapp like now

I love watching this part over and over lol

Lol

Same

DragonForce technique

Maximum Points: Activated

True

Even Carlos Santana uses two fingers while picking.

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

This is illegal

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Slap like now

Jacopo Parenti Weird slap techniques.

OMG! That's illegal. I'm calling the police now

I was waiting for Zappa too 😁

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

Lars ulrich really said he’s 👉of the FOOKING BAND!!!

lmao

he got us all

translation: YEAHEAH

Kirk hammett said 🖕

@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

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.

8:57 steve morse (i have no idea) 10:07 willie adler (lamb of god) 12:04 marty friedman (idk)

3:16 is tosin abasi from animals as leaders and Marty Friedman is from Megadeth

Steve Morse is from deep purple

MAB is a soloist and finally par metheny is from pat metheny group

@@boudreautom2907 Steve Morse was also in: The Dixie Dregs….Steve Morse Band and Kansas as well.

The ultimate down pick

He had the hybrid-cyborg right hand 🤘🏾🤘🏿🤘🏽🤘🏼🤘🏻

I only down stroke too, fuck an up stroke

@@RyanDMoore Upstrokes suck

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

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

Joshua Williams not picking at all.

You could probably play better with a shovel

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

i was surprised he just picked it up and played cafo like that lol

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

by the way, Marty Friedmans picking-technique is so wierd bechause he is muting the open strings with his arm.

Jack's Film Orchard your pun both satisfies and sickens me

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.

All through high school in the early eighties I only down picked and I love the power of it; actually got fairly fast and accurate shipping strings and so on but then I started feeling limited by it and wanted the light fluttering sound that Randy Rhodes used to get and I got away from it. (switched to alternating strokes)

He was always up there, but I always thought of Kerry King from Slayer back in his prime as the "King of Downpicking" to be honest, lol. And yea, downpicking is definitely useful to aggressive riffs, but there's no need for you to also hold the pick in the screwed up way Hetfield does (unless it's weirdly comfortable for you.) Might as well learn with the proper way of holding the pick, and then practice your downpicking ;)

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 RU-vid.

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

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

Pffft forget PRESSING, how about TAPPING to honor him even more! 🤘

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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.

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?

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

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

Same

Is Steve Canadian? 🇨🇦

Sentinel hhahah language bro

Me too

Ha goteem

Incorrect. My technique is called the "Calalala" technique...

Haha.. Yeah ;) Calalala

The Stevie T Echnique?

Of course. How dumb of me.

CALALALA

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.

Me too

I find it very comfortable

Same!

Half-same...Finding this video just now had me think about it for the first time...I also hold with three fingers but at the same time its also somewhere in between tosin abasi and marty friedmans technique. Where my arm isnt swooping down nearly as much as marty's but i angle my thumb more than him to compensate, just not anywhere near as harsh an angle as tosin lol...like right halfway in between their techniques, with 3 fingers like hetfield...so i guess its angled backwards compared to most peoples forward slicing..as for holding it with 3 fingers, the middle is like extra support for the pointer finger so that the pick doesn't move and so i can pick harder Sucks though cause i heard that angling the pick backwards like that instead of slicing forwards, makes for a less "djenty" sound and more effort required for fast tremelo picking, and that 3 fingers also hinders speed compared to 2 fingers somehow. But at least hetfield can reassure me on the 3 finger thing, and i just realized that backwards angled pick is the perfect funk strumming technique anyways and tbh i used to play a lot of funk when i started out on guitar idk why i just did. Maybe thats where Tosin got it from too, since he's pretty funky. Noticed that when watching Vulfpecks madison square garden thing - that pick angle just makes things chop hard even on upstrokes (which i use a ton unlike hetfield), like a funky machine

Same since I was 14