Are there any strategies you'd recommend for increasing speed of the right hand?
I hit a natural speed limit on banjo rolls and general fast picking and don't know the best way to break the speed limit.
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- Tue May 20, 2025 10:19 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers w/ Neil
- Topic: Tips on Increasing Speed?
- Replies: 0
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- Thu May 08, 2025 4:34 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: Nick Lowe - The Beast in Me
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- Views: 2504
Nick Lowe - The Beast in Me
More Nick Lowe magic, his iconic 'The Beast in Me' made famous as the outro on episode 1 of The Sopranos.
More cool bass runs with the thumb-wrap, and the right thumb working overtime brushing strums.
More cool bass runs with the thumb-wrap, and the right thumb working overtime brushing strums.
- Thu May 08, 2025 3:04 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: Nick Lowe - What's Shakin' On the Hill
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Nick Lowe - What's Shakin' On the Hill
Nick Lowe (whom God preserve), with his signature thumb-wrap and thumb strum style; I'd like to know how to play this without being able to wrap my thumb over the three bass strings(!) and retain the walking bass sound. Quite a workout for swift single-beat chord changes, I also love the full strum ...
- Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:28 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: All My Days - Alexi Murdoch
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3366
All My Days - Alexi Murdoch
Alexi Murdoch channelling Nick Drake, a tune in dropped D with the 'melody' played mostly on the bass strings.
- Wed Mar 26, 2025 5:18 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: Don't Know What I Was Thinking - Teddy Thompson
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- Views: 3679
Don't Know What I Was Thinking - Teddy Thompson
Here's a nice example of focused strumming and riff-picking combined in a song for male voices.
- Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:16 am
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: Welcome To Recommend A Lesson
- Replies: 72
- Views: 134262
Re: Welcome To Recommend A Lesson
A couple of male singer-songwriter tunes people might like.
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 3:44 am
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: Why Worry by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13227
Re: Why Worry by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
Hi Neil,
the tab should be in your inbox; hope it helps.
This should be a really popular lesson, looking forward to it.
All the best,
Dean
the tab should be in your inbox; hope it helps.
This should be a really popular lesson, looking forward to it.
All the best,
Dean
- Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:38 pm
- Forum: Recommend A Lesson
- Topic: Why Worry by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13227
Re: Why Worry by Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler
Here's a nice simple arrangement, (none the worse for that), it has almost a lullaby simplicity. It's in dropped D, I did a transcription for it in Guitar Pro if anyone's interested.
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:16 pm
- Forum: On The Beat
- Topic: On The Beat - Episode 684 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up December 2, 2022
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5809
Re: On The Beat - Episode 684 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up December 2, 2022
https://youtu.be/upH1QZU4Z0Y Nomination for Christmas tune. I'm not sure how far this reached in its day, but the animated short 'The Snowman' is a British Christmas tradition since the 80's; the vocal made Welsh choirboy Aled Jones a national treasure to this day. Merry Christmas to all the TG fami...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:18 pm
- Forum: On The Beat
- Topic: On The Beat - Episode 526 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up November 13, 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8398
Re: On The Beat - Episode 526 - Weekly Guitar Video News Wrap Up November 13, 2020
Sure is, I thought it might fit Max's approach of looper pedal layering of the parts?