Is there any in-depth technical content from Troy Grady/CtC on the Gypsy Jazz picking technique?

[bradejensen]

@Bigsby007

sorry for the confusion. in the clip i sent you, Troy expressly calls Joscho’s picking an RDT motion while showing what seems like an obvious not RDT motion, hence my confusion with the video.

oh yeah sorry haha maybe they just goofed it up? sometimes its easy to mess up all the motion terms. heck when i was going through my gym phase i learned those terms for about 1 week. then when i started meeting other lifting friends all that stuff went out the window even though we were doing all sorts of flexion/extension, supination, pronation, motions.

[Jacklr]

@Bigsby007

Here, Troy says that Joscho Stephan is using RDT in this clip. How?? I get that his palm is facing the headstock and that might indicate an RDT-er. However, the wrist motion is clearly USX and looks like a classic “regular” dart thrower motion. I get that when he does his tremolo strum thing, that is RDT. But his picking here looks very DT. Can anyone explain? I don’t see how you can do USX and also use RDT, given the way the wrist is moving along the clockface.

USX isn’t exclusively DT or RDT, Joscho to me looks very typically RDT. I think you may be a little confused because DT looks quite different to what Joscho is doing, examples of DT would be John Taylor and Dallas Toler-Wade (also Molly Tuttle, David Grier etc.):

John Taylor:

John Taylor's Tremolo Warmup @ 360bpm

Dallas Toler-Wade:

Nile - Lashed to the Slave Stick ( Den Haag )

Molly Tuttle:

Molly Tuttle "White Freightliner" No Interview