Jimmy Bruno: His Right Hand Technique

[MarkRhodes]

This is a new video.
NB: this is about HIS right hand technique, not anyone else's. He's not saying this is what you or anyone else should do; he knows great guitar players who don't do it like this. But this is how he does it.

[pauln]

Thanks for that; I'm thinking for that 13 minutes and
forty seconds he may have been my favorite guitarist.

[MarkRhodes]

Did you catch him saying Pasquale Grasso is the best guitarist he's ever heard?
Quite a claim from someone who knew Joe Pass and cites Hank Garland as his guitar hero.

[pamosmusic]

I was about to make a joke about how you’d have to learn to hold a lit cigarette in your pick hand and then he beat me to it.

[ccroft]

I like JB. He just really enjoys playing guitar. 3 mins of joking around (mostly), 4 mins of demonstrating his right hand, and then off to playing something he likes for 6 minutes.

Come to think of it, that sounds like a healthy practice schedule: +/- 1/4 joking around, +/- 1/4 physical tech, and + 1/2 playing some music you like.

'....Pasqualle Grasso. Who, by the way, I think is the greatest guitar player I've ever ever heard in my entire life.' Sounds even better than best, doesn't it?

[alltunes]

Tony Rice the great acoustic flat picker also bucked the strict down up alternate picking method. Bryan Sutton is pretty much a strict alternate picker.

Whatever makes it work for you is the way.

[MarkRhodes]

Tony Rice the great acoustic flat picker also bucked the strict down up alternate picking method. Bryan Sutton is pretty much a strict alternate picker.

Whatever makes it work for you is the way.

The short answer is 'whatever works for you.' The longer answer is "if you want to play bebop sax lines on a guitar, alternate picking is going to make it harder than it has to be."

I'm mainly an alternate picker, by the way. (I'm not trying to play sax lines on guitar.)

[garybaldy]

Check out his left hand technique at 1.25

[MarkRhodes]

Check out his left hand technique at 1.25

Nose picking?

[sgosnell]

Sometimes your nose itches, and something has to be done about it.

[ccroft]

To quote Rahsaan: "The nose knows, y'all."

[GuyBoden]

JB seems to use his arm more than his wrist when picking.

[MarkRhodes]

JB seems to use his arm more than his wrist when picking.

Yes, he says that in his book The Art of Picking. I think several guys from Philly learned to pick (primarily) from the elbow. It may go back to Dennis Sandole.