Those fingers were designed to play guitar!!! Look at the size of them!
You guys know better about wrist movements.
What made me think about Martin Miller is the curved end of his thumb because it looks similar. While in the video that @Troy posted about Andy wood, I see more a bump in the thumb. But maybe this doesn’t play at all here.
Yes, they have a somewhat different grip but the actual motion seems similair.
Yes! Somewhat different pickgrip though, but the actual motion seems to be similair indeed!
This, from about 5:22, is so AWESOME!
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The thing is at the age of 8 he already did the same stuff with much smaller hands/ shorter fingers!
His brother plays the bass and was on a lot of live gigs with Anton. He is mabe 10 years older or so and you could see at his big hands/long fingers that Anton was going to get them to; and now he has them!
Very similar, and for our learning purposes, I would say, exactly the same. Here’s a quick and dirty!
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Here’s what I wrote in the video description, which pretty much sums it up:
Andy Wood, who is a great friend of Cracking the Code, and Anton Oparin, who we haven’t met but would like to (!), have very similar picking techniques. They’re both lightly supinated deviation-ish wrist players. Maintaining this orientation, they combine two different wrist movements as needed to play linear lines, and even crosspicking lines, by blending the two movements into a third “curved” picking trajectory. This is also what Petrucci does - another player we haven’t met, but would like to! In all cases, it’s a a super cool approach which we’ve taken to calling the “902” system, based on a very helpful clockface analogy for wrist movement which we subscribers have already learned about, and which we will elucidate further in future channel videos. Can’t wait? Head on over to Cracking the Code right now and sign the hell up.
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Great Troy!!!
Realy hope you can get to Anton one day…
My God!! The accuracy is insane, I generally do this kind of stuff with hybrid picking, what kind of madman dares to pick this stuff? Amazing stuff, very musical as well.
Is he in a remote area of Russia @Troy? No other Russian virtuosos you could meet while you’re over there to make the trip more worth while?
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I’ve been subscribing but not paying attention for a little while. Where is the info about the 902?
Currently that’s in our crosspicking workshop here:
https://troygrady.com/channels/talking-the-code/crosspicking-with-the-wrist/
At some point soon we’ll be making more chapterized tutorial material with these concepts as well.
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Is it just me or is he using a very thin pick?
Like .50 or so ? (Just because of the scratchy picking sound)
I realy do not know… Would like to know also.
Some more madness from Anton starting at about 1.40
The accuracy and speed on this complex Paganini stuff is out of this world!
Some of those lefthand fingerings are just…pffff!!!
Here is a slow version:
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What model Ibanez is he playing?
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No matter how many times I watched the videos about this when I was a subscriber, I could not understand what these clock analogies are 
Petrucci, Anton Oparin, Andy Wood - looking at those guys what they are capable of doing with their wrist picking makes me believe that’s those lines are probably impossible using my elbow technique. I’ve also seen an old instructional video from Kiko Loureiro where he was doing some similar insane string skipping stuff.
It is an Ibanez SA120. I have one - the exact same model. It is not the most expensive guitar around - but it is unbelievable for shred! The neck is amazing and the fret height is medium (not jumbo). It definitely has something that lends itself to this type of playing. I also think the lack of binding that you find on the Prestige models also helps. Anyway, check them out if you get a chance!
There is a lot going on in that video with Anton - wrist, thumb movement and so on. I think you can learn it if you want to! Why not? You have the talent and drive. I don’t think you need to just be a elbow player. Look at Troy - he plays lots of picking styles. Yngwie uses elbow as well as his other techniques. There’s nothing wrong of course with just having one main style of picking - but you don’t have to! Particularly if you have mastered the current one - which I would argue you have.
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First I wanted to master picking from the elbow but I’m really stuck above 180+ tempos 