Who would you like to see interviewed next by Troy and the team?

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#50

What I would like to see CTC evolve in is something like the Hotlicks instructional DVD’s SHOULD have been.

Players discussing their playing, techniques, recordings and their mindset when composing, practicing, improvising, playing live and gear, but this time with Troy around asking the right questions and feedback from the CTC community.

This concept can be continued indefinitely and would absolutely be interesting to a broader audience as well as the technically minded.

Imagine Troy interviewing Yngwie on his techniques and compositional style and also someone like Tom Morello or Al di Meola.

In the end it’s not just about cracking the code on picking, but also how the mind of these musicians works when composing, improvising and playing live as well as the gear they use and why.

For me this is a dream scenario and I hope CTC evolves into something like that.

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#51

Speed and technique blablabla it’s hard to add anything revealing for this.

The Art of Phrasing is the most neglected area among guitarists.
Music is like speech, phrasing in different genres
is like slangs and dialects in different languages.

Most guitarists speak the same language among different “cultures”.
“Hi, how are you,I’m fine,thank you,goodbye”. - 100% of my vocabulary

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#52

Neal Schon
Robert Fripp
Rick Graham
Pat Metheny
Vernon Reid
Mitch Chmara
Guthrie Govan (fast strumming in particular)

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#53

good point! Metheny hates his picking so I think he could learn a lot from Troy.

Troy also shot a Frank Gambale interview so that could be in the pipeworks.

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#55

Before you stop covering alternate picking and start covering something else in depth, I don’t see how any complete coverage of efficient alternate picking techniques could be complete without a Dannyjoe Carter interview. He has the fastest alternate picking (17 notes per second according to Guitar World magazine which ranks him as the fastest alternate picker in the world), and also the most economy of motion in his picking of anyone I’ve ever seen. His economy of motion is so amazing that sometimes it’s difficult to even see his picking hand moving which led to the nickname “the possessed picking hand.” Have you tried to contact Dannyjoe yet? He uses only his thumb and index finger to move the pick which seems to enable the greatest economy of motion possible in alternate picking.

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#56

We actually have a thread about Dannyjoe here! Dannyjoe Carter and finger mechanics

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#57

Thank you; I read it. There is some misinformation there that what he is doing is tremolo picking and not picking all the notes. I watched him play in my own house. He picks every note on the licks that were being discussed. I stood right in front of him and could barely see his picking hand move. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen or heard of in guitar playing. It’s just the most extreme, speed, accuracy and economy of motion.

#58

Mike Dawes

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#59

Thanks to everyone for so many great suggestions. Keep 'em coming — we’ll be going through and taking notes :smile: We’ve got a big spreadsheet where we keep track of everyone viewers recommend we check out, and this has led us to discovering some amazing players!

Also a particular shoutout to those of you offering thoughts / ideas on future directions for Cracking the Code. This is always something we’re thinking about and it’s great to have community input as we think about what to prioritize for the rest of the year and beyond.

We hear you, great points here. Definitely open to suggestions not only for players to meet with, but also particular questions and areas of investigation you’d most like to see explored.

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#60

Players I’d like to see and hear their views on:

  1. Andy James
  2. Rick Graham
  3. Brett Garsed
  4. Chris Brooks
  5. Glenn Proudfoot (there’s 3 reasons to visit Australia already)
  6. Tommy Emmanuel
  7. Mr Doublespeed (just kidding)

There are only so many ways to play a note but sometimes hearing it from additional sources re-enforces it. I also like watching players learn about themselves.

What I’d like to see more of:

  1. I wish the chronological webisode nature of the CTC youtube series had continued.
  2. Maybe a cleaner flow of information cause it can be overwhelming (and a hard nut to crack in organising a website I’m sure).
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#61

I suggested him too. Without realising it, Brett sort of does have a system for picking, with 2 notes per string + legato a lot of the time, and in the 90s he made hybrid picking standard fare for the technique bag of the fusion style that would follow.

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#62

If say I have a tree in my garden and post a picture of a tree, then it’s reasonable to accept that claim.

If I say I have a unicorn, and post a few seconds of sketchy video from a distance of an animal that looks like might have a carrot stuck on it’s head, then that isn’t sufficient evidence.

This can be summed up as: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. And the claim that an individual can play significantly faster, as well as more accurately than anyone else on Earth is an extraordinary claim.

Some close footage of (say), clean tone scale sequences across strings at sensible speeds e.g Al or John Mc speed, with equal clarity and rhythmical accuracy might allow the masses to entertain the claim he can do it 9 times faster as well. FWIW, based on the videos on his Youtube channel, it looked and sounded to me like a few seconds of unsynchronised, inaccurate tremolo picking.

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#63

My own suggestions would be:

Robert Fripp: he actually taught some unusual theories about picking, and “Fracture” contains some notoriously hard clean tone cross picking.

Mike Keneally: played the second guitar with Vai but with unusual RH technique - lots of wrist and finger at low speed but almost totally elbow movement with an extended wrist at high speed.

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#64

Guthrie Govan
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Gilad hekselman
Pat Martino
Tosin Abasi

It would be awesome to see a little bit of dynamics/phrasing and also some improvisation concepts such as motifs, and choosing the right notes, I think that watching and learning this with such detail would be a great way to keep the mechanics working better. Another idea is to maybe start analyzing left hand posture.

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#65

Yes if you haven’t seen his rock fusion video, check it out!!! Unbelievable flow IMO

#66

and !!! Danny Elfman !!!

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#67

Baby Metal??? Really?

I wouldnt mind seeing thet Raga Guitar with the magnet on it.

#68

Baby Metal writes some catchy tunes, unfortunately Mikio Fujioka just passed away.

#69

Eh :frowning: …maybe Waldemar Sorychta?

and Steinar Sverd Johnsen & Knut Magne Valle

Andrew Barnabas & Paul Arnold
http://www.bobandbarn.com/about

they committed genius soundtrack for Medievil

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#71

Jonas Engdegård

Hmmm…Marilyn Manson 2 ? :slight_smile:
I prefer these :smiley:

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