Hi everyone, Adrian from Germany

Hi everyone,
my name is Adrian, I’m 29 and I live in Germany. I play the guitar since several years and I was primarily an upward pickslanter. I was simply taught it this way by my guitar teacher, a fast jazz player, 15 years ago and – although it was pretty bad, I never changed or reconsidered it until recently. I discovered the fantastic “Cracking the code” just by clicking through youtube in search of hints at optimizing picking and just watched the series like a normal sitcom. And now I discover the amazing comfort of dwps, which I try since three weeks or so. My arm feels now like lying in a cloud or bathtub. No slight (ground-)tension anymore :slight_smile:

Like my username says I’m a fan of Judas Priest and many other old Heavy-Metal-Bands, especially Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, old Rainbow, Venom, Omen, early Slayer and Megadeth. Also I love the old German Metal bands like Running Wild (whose singer and guitarist Rolf Kasparek is an excellent example of finger motion mechanics, which he does exclusively), Grave Digger, Sodom or early Helloween.

I’m looking forward to participating in this forum and in discussions, to share ideas, insights, experiences, learning methods and so forth!

Best regards,
Adrian

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Hi Adrian! Thanks for joining. Re: your switch from uwps to dwps, this is something we’ve been discussing here recently. Since you have been able to make the switch, in comfortable way, it would be interesting to all take a look at how you’re doing it. If you have a chance to post a clip in “Technique Critique” that would be awesome. A similar phrase played both ways would be helpful for others working on a similar transition. Thanks!

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Hi Adrian! Nice to meet you! I am from the USA but I have toured in Germany before. I like Halford and a lot of German metal. Old Accept rocks! lol.

I played guitar for Rob Rock when he was doing solo albums. He is the singer for Impellitteri. We had nice crowds in Germany so maybe you know about him? This is a solo compilation from a show we played in Owen, Germany a long time ago. I am guitar Left.

Later for now!!!
-Hank

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Welcome to the site, Adrian! This is a great community and I’m sure you will find lots of great information and posts.

Hi all,
thanks for the replies and sorry for my late response! got much to do here :slight_smile: @Troy So that’s also the reason why I will be able to make a video not until in two weeks or so. But I’d love to share my results and expose it to critique!

Tl;dr:
Some addenda to the changes in my interests:
For many years I played in a German stoner rock band. Picking or something technical was not on my mind for years. Our songs, riffs and structures were more in a weird but funny mix-style of Nirvana, Kyuss, some Sabbath, some Blue Cheer, some Led Zep and some Pop… and then I wanted more insight because I always was much into (old) metal like I told. After I had left the band I started to research and practice a little more consciously. But where begin? My picking was enough to do some Motörhead and NWoBHM. Now I’m in an experience mode which lead me to:

Some addenda to my (new) interests in technique:
I would like to investigate and discuss finger motion mechanics. This always was an issue haunting my head since years without ever trying it till recently. That’s a story, which is a late part in the construction kit of my playing techniques, indeed connected to discovering dwps, but a story on its own. I always thought “what the hell is the Running Wild guitarist doing? Playing hard and fast without moving his hand? Black Magic!” With CTC now we know, that you don’t have to meet the devil at the crossroads for this.
I always preferred wrist and rotational movements like I was told in music school and like is seen most of the time. But the question is “why?” that is on my mind. Troy, in the Volcano-Seminar you pointed the fact out, that Yngwie is doing it for 3nps-playing but no one ever realized it (maybe the young Japanese J-Metal advocates!). That is interesting and indeed a topic for my further investigation and exploration since I belong to the people that started with classical guitar. My index finger movement was trained from early on by learning tirando and apoyando (which both I’ve unlearned mostly because of playing with a pick). Couldn’t that be an obvious starting point?
Maybe I could raise a topic in the technique section of the forum, sharing my thoughts and experiences and presenting my researches (like I mentioned above: Rolf Kasparek)?

@Hanky_Pooh I’v heard of Rob Rock :slight_smile: But I never really followed and listened to his music consciously (maybe the short period when I tried to discover Axel Rudi Pell). But lucky you are to play here with a famous singer! And yes! I love (early) Accept and then some UDO, too!

Adrian

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