Anyone watch it before he deleted? I wasn’t able to watch before removal and would love to know his insights
Thanks in advance
It was deleted? haha I did happen to see it, and I don’t even follow him, it just popped up. He didn’t say anything outlandish or totally mind-blowing - as I recall, it was basically that economy is the easier solution most of the time, and it sounds more uniform versus something like alternate with 2 way pickslanting. Alternate pick even notes per string, economy pick odd. Certain things at certain speeds are impossible with alternate (like typical fast sweep arpeggios). All stuff I assume anyone here is pretty well aware of - logical, but no deep secrets or anything.
I assume this deeply riled up a certain segment of the online guitar population. I’m not even an economy picker and I think that’s silly. All techniques are good.
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@Riffdiculous thanks. Doesn’t sounds too out there, and I hope he reposts because he pushing the limits of guitar playing without miming or faking or whatever social media games people are doing today.
Maybe he realized it’s too good to give away his technique and producing insights
There was nothing controversial about it. First, he talked about the attack he finds possible through economy strokes (inertia, in other words), contrasting with what he felt was a softer return on investment in the attack with alternate picking (because of the opposing motions across string changes). He then went on to address the notion of losing rhythmic control with economy picking.
I didn’t see any outrage in the comments, but something that might have inspired blowback was an exaggerated demonstration of alternate picking involving extreme pronation and supination across 3nps patterns and the “envelope” effect - as he described it - between muted upward escape and “open” downward escape. I guess there was perceived subtext that a) that’s how mixed escape always works and b) one escape path has less sound control than the other. It’s not really how great alternate pickers are doing it, so the overt exaggeration might have been a point for discourse.
He was just verbally riffing on some common perceptions about economy picking, so it’s not like he was presenting a seminar on economy = good, alternate = bad. People often want to pit these approaches against each other like sports teams.
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