The Circular Picking School

[James W]

I for one wouldn't mind seeing some footage of Brent's picking hand in action.

[nevershouldhavesoldit]

I will insist that people address me as ‘your Thenar Eminence’ from now on.

Outrageous, Christian! You have thumb nerve!

[brent.h]

I for one wouldn't mind seeing some footage of Brent's picking hand in action.

So would I. Recording is going to be a pain, though. I don't have good cameras and don't know how to setup a good recording angle for this. I have to figure something out.

[James W]

So would I. Recording is going to be a pain, though. I don't have good cameras and don't know how to setup a good recording angle for this. I have to figure something out.

What I've done here is put my phone on my left leg and hold it with my left hand while demonstrating a tremolo with my right hand, sixteenths and sextuplets at 110 BPM. Not the most ideal recording but good enough I think?

My picking hand. - YouTube

[brent.h]

Oh ok good idea

[brent.h]

What I've done here is put my phone on my left leg and hold it with my left hand while demonstrating a tremolo with my right hand, sixteenths and sextuplets at 110 BPM. Not the most ideal recording but good enough I think?

My picking hand. - YouTube

Ok I tried your method but can't quite get a good sound and my phone keeps dropping to the floor LOL. I've found an ok angle on my laptop camera, so I'll probably use that.

[joe2758]

strap a camera to your dogs head and tape a piece of pork belly under the strings

[JazzKatua]

What I've done here is put my phone on my left leg and hold it with my left hand while demonstrating a tremolo with my right hand, sixteenths and sextuplets at 110 BPM. Not the most ideal recording but good enough I think?

My picking hand. - YouTube

I'd rather see some bebop playing using this technique rather than on 1 string and 1 note only; so a simple iim7-V7-IMaj7 would suffice with the same phone recording method, so I can see the picking method in action on a melodic bebop phrase.

[James W]

I'd rather see some bebop playing using this technique rather than on 1 string and 1 note only; so a simple iim7-V7-IMaj7 would suffice with the same phone recording method, so I can see the picking method in action on a melodic bebop phrase.

As you can read, the recording method makes use of my left hand, so I'm afraid no melodic Bebop phrase with that camera angle will be forthcoming, at least until I buy one of Troy Grady's magnets.