Is downward picking a rest stroke? Will it get faster?

[Jacklr]

@joebegly

Now if only it would have occurred to me that I should have capitalized on this and made all my string changes after down strokes. Oh well.

I really relate to this!

I remember when I first started practicing scales 10 years ago (with no knowledge of gyspy jazz) I found ascending them really easy but struggled on the descent. I slowed down and realised I was economy picking on the ascent (didn’t know what that was called at the time) but awkwardly alternate picking my way back down.

In hindsight, that probably meant I was using an USX motion but instead of accepting that as a solution (like perhaps Yngwie did) I saw this as wrong and made sure to alternate pick everything with little to no progress

[Fossegrim]

@bradejensen

except i thought one of his relatives owned a recording studio. so depending on who he was around in that environment as well as who his uncle listened to. we don’t know if he was exposed to gypsy jazz somewhere along the way. but being he was in the same continent this shit spawned from it makes sense to me he ripped some of this stuff straight from the gypsies. you have to see it from the perspective of someone with perfect pitch. they probably dont care, well some of the really ego maniac ones, who played what, if it sounds good theyll just play it cause they know the sound exactly or close enough.

I dunno. I usually mind Ockham’s razor, and don’t speculate too much on issues like this. Usually the most simple of answers is typically the correct one, as in he just played that way and it stuck.

Whatever the truth is, it’s pretty inconsequential really. Even if he did take his picking from Gypsy players, he would never admit it, so there’s no point in speculating - it won’t really change anything.

[bradejensen]

well the thing is maybe he would admit it, because maybe he subconsciously did it in his younger years without thinking about it. has anyone ever asked him about his feelings of Django Reinhardt, and if was inspired in anyway by him?

[Fossegrim]

Many have asked him what his influences are, and even the one’s he clearly has been visibly influenced by, he has denied. He sticks pretty much to a script when asked this. If it doesn’t fit the persona he has built around himself, it doesn’t exist-well according to Yngwie at least.

In any case it’s not really all that important. It doesn’t really change anything. It doesn’t make it suddenly easier to play like him than it was before. It’s merely just a potential piece of trivia.