By this, I just mean playing things like power chords, but playing more across the frett-board. Like playing through an arpegio but playing two notes at a time.
Just wondering what most people use for this. In the past , I would just use finger picking, but I had limitations there. But I am starting to see a lot of potential with cross-picking adjacent two-note chords. It just seems very reliable and flexible. It kinda opens up a whole new sound.
Can you be more specific ? tab or something ?
Iām not to good with guitar-pro, but something like this:
I would hybrid pick the s*** out of that.
Cool idea! Looks very hard though!
Hmm,
not sure what that will sound like 
Do you plan to let the notes ring or stop them after each pair? Might be harder for the left than the right hand then.
I would pluck them with middle an ring finger. lightly palm muted might sound good, but is hard to do when fingerpicking e and b-string. Far apart from shred-territory me thinks
Thomas
By the way, did anyone ever try the caprice 24 by paganini? Thereās a section which is all supposed to be double stops, maybe this technique could be applied to something like that? I recall that the left hand was also a nightmare though.
The German Schauss book āShredding Paganiniā lays this out with hybrid picking itās not too bad as itās a slower section.
Very good questionā¦ I almost always want to let the notes ring. Thatās sorta my trademark.
And I agree with everyone here that hyrbrid or finger picking would be a good methodā¦ but I just donāt have the skills to hybrid this with any speed. So that really limits me.
Anyhoo, I am trying to transfer piano songs that I used to play as a kid to guitarā¦ and these sorta patterns show up a lot. And my weak hybrid skills would usually cause me to āgive upā. So I am very encouraged by attempting to use X-picking. I am not quite there yetā¦ but I think it should be doable.
Yes, I love Caprice 24.
The first double-stop just involves octavesā¦ Its not too fast and can be āslidā up and down. It sounds really cool on guitar. I think Octaves are underutilized in guitar. A lot of guitarist convert them to single notesā¦ or use an octave effect. But it makes it too electronic sounding.
Howeverā¦ the second double-stop portion is probably what you are talking about. It isnāt straight up octaves, and is inhumanly tough to do. I just kinda gave up on it in the past. Iāve seen professional level violinists struggle with it.
I found someone who transcribed that part here: Iāve heard this played at much higher speed by Heifitz/Perlman/Leonidas
Look into Scotty Andersonās technique. Scotty has developed a method for alternate picking double stops using the pick and nail of his index finger.
This technique mechanically resembles a DWPS deviation and flexion/extension based crosspicking movement, with a slightly modified hand position to allow the fingernail to strike the higher string almost exactly as the pick strikes the lower string.
I found the movement very awkward for a long time, but Iāve started to make some headway with the technique. Thereās a bit of a knack to it, and my fingernail needs to be maintained at a particular length.
The technique is very versatile and Scotty has taken that basic concept to the extremes and devised more advanced variations, including triple-stop alternate picking and variations involving non-adjacent strings.
If youād like, I can make a short video later demonstrating the basic principle, but be aware that Iām still at a very basic level with this technique.
Thanks. I just tried that, and I definitely see potential in it. Basically, I have to use an angled approach (which I normally dont use), and Iām using the index finger as a āsecond pickā that moves in the same motion as the pick. It seems to work, and I will definitely experiment with this.
Wow, this guy is insane:
The first time I heard Scotty Anderson was like my first time hearing Shawn Lane. I was utterly astonished.
I would absolutely love to see Scotty interviewed for CTC. Those double-stop alternate picking lines are unbelievable. The technique he uses to accomplish those lines is unlike anything weāve seen examined here before. Then thereās the incredibly fluid transitions between his fingerstyle playing and his single-note melody playing.
I believe @Troy did an interview with him in the past. I know that some of the early interviews were conducted differently than theyāre conducted now, and there were issues with recordings, etc. If itās in any watchable state, Iād love to see it. If not, I think a follow up interview should be a priority.
Scotty is great and Iām mad to this day that I somehow unplugged the camcorder right when the interview started. We have some truly horrendous SD video shot by another guy who was there, but itās postage stamp quality.
Long story short itās definitely on our list to redo that one with him but itās just an issue of money and time. Either we have to fly him out here or we have to fly out there.
That is some extraordinary playing. And while Iām watching it, I keep thinking about Benny Hill.
