Morse and Gilbert jamming at NAMM 2020

General Music Discussion
#1

I know Morse is a beast, and Paul Gilbert is Paul Gilbert, but this video made me really think I need to pay better attention to whatever Morse has been recording lately…

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#2

Longer take from another angle. At 11m50s Paul kids about playing Birds of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Steve actually starts into it for a few seconds before they switch to Pictures of Home by Deep Purple:

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#3

I love Steve’s bending in this :grin:. I feel this video shows the difference in their picking and note attack so well, Paul is shredding the notes and Steve slapping those notes.

#4

Steve’s index finger shredding is really amazing too, he got arthritis in his wrist right? And has adapted to the index n elbow. It’s like a floating elbow move but he is so accurate with it!

#5

I was surprised to see his elbow shredding. Is this a new thing? I’ve not really seen much over the last few years but I don’t remember seeing him play like that before

#6

He is doing it because his normal picking is hurting his wrist I believe.
He has arthritis in it apparently. Now is that due to his technique? Or is it just what woulda happened anyway?

Evh never had this issue as far as I’m aware?

#7

There is his own explanation here:

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#8

I also see Paul using the middle finger for some of the rythem playing. Didn’t Paul say something about the middle finger technique stressing his hand to much?

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#9

I been talking about struggling with sweeping middle finger recently but look at Steve’s sweeps, Maybe I should just try harder lol. What an outro.

#10

Is he not using his index when sweeping there? It’s hard to tell. In the article, he said he had to switch from a two finger grip, to one finger. I thought he meant he switched to his index, but maybe not…

#11

I see him alternate picking and then blending into sweep picking, same middle grip. When he uses index you can see the back of his hand and knuckles. I think he is using middle in those sweeps

This is the index

You can see a big difference

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#12

Ah cool, well spotted.
Fair play to him for making those changes to save wrist pain, or at least as much as possible.
Can’t have been an easy job!

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