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joe
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Post When Wrong is Right
on: July 28, 2012, 18:54
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What's a technique you use that everyone says is wrong?
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rsgoldfish

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 3, 2012, 07:57
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I hold my pick with both my index finger and my middle finger, and everyone says I sling my guitar way too high.
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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 4, 2012, 21:05
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Fretting with the thumb was unacceptable to one or two teachers I had as a kid. Jimi did it, ergo they were wrong.
Oinkus

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 5, 2012, 05:20
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Really isn't any right and wrong and just because Jimi did something doesn't mean you should.
dasein

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 5, 2012, 07:18
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Well, it's right in the sense that certain things that Hendrix played required the use of a thumb (same with certain things by Chet Atkins, even the occasional Ted Greene arrangement), and his teachers were wrong in the sense that they had turned it into a prohibition instead of a suggestion.

Technical advice is supposed to make life easier, not forbid us from ever playing certain things.

For me personally, I do the following things wrong:

- Play everything, including jazz, rock, and the occasional classical piece, with a thumbpick
- Turn every downstroke into a reststroke, except when I don't. So I've managed to be wrong to teachers who advocate the smallest pickmotion possible AND teachers who advocate turning all downstrokes into reststrokes.
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rsgoldfish

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 5, 2012, 11:38
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I think teachers say a lot of things are "wrong" when they should say "bad" or "rarely useful."
AZX309

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 5, 2012, 17:08
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Hybrid picking slower arpeggios.
Not exactly wrong but, I get highly criticized for my use of thick flatwound strings.

Double D

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 17, 2012, 01:32
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I no doubt have some goofy habits, but nothing worth speaking about here. However, my best buddy and most regular bandleader is a well-known Canadian drummer whose tendonitis forced him off the kit. He'd always written songs and played guitar, but as he was hitting fifty he had to change instruments. And he is idiosyncratic as hell in the best possible way.
His right hand is his genius; he wears acrylic nails and plays electric guitars with a highly personal range of techniques that all pretty much sound like he's playing drums on a guitar. Despite some eccentricities in arrangement from time to time, you really couldn't ask for a better rhythm guitarist to accompany- his meter is impeccable and his groove is deep, so all I have to do is the old Slartibartfast (you know, the fiddly bits around the fjords).
Louisiana seems to be the home of devastating but weird right hand technique: Snooks Eaglin? Wacky. Gatemouth Brown. Uhhh...magic? Watch the videos closely and see if you can make any sense out of it. I gave up trying years ago...
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Larry

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: August 25, 2012, 21:26
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Using saliva to hold my pick on my forehead when fingerpicking. Learned that one from Dave Pegg.
Double D

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Post Re: When Wrong is Right
on: September 3, 2012, 22:01
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Oh yeah, there is my habit of executing full step Bigsby-style warbles by bending the neck of my guitar. People look at me like I've grown a second head. 😉
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