Hi all,
thanks for the replies and sorry for my late response! got much to do here @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 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