It primarily consists of alternate picking but takes advantage of sweeping picking when changing strings.īy incorporating a sweep will keep the motion of your hand movement ensuring you always pick inside when swapping strings. Economy pickingĮconomy picking is a combination of both alternate picking and sweep picking. That means if your hand is moving down a string, then pick down. Making it different to alternatepicking as you will always pick in the direction that your hand is moving. For this technique, you can choose to apply it for playing one note per string or even 3 or 6 notes per string. Sweep picking is used to play the arpeggios, which include the notes of a chord played separately. And on the other hand, for an upstroke, it will be played upward, toward the ceiling. So what are the down-strokes and upstrokes? Firstly, the down-stroke is played with a downward motion of the pick, toward the floor. Alternate pickingĪlternate picking is described to be a combination of playing downstrokes and upstrokes consecutivley picking every note (making it different from legato). Then immediately releasing the string allowing the note to be held by the left hand.
The passages in this technique include using the hammer-on/pull-off effect being executed with the right hand tapping the high note. Tapping is a standard technique which we fret with one hand (the left one) and hammer-on with the fingertip strumming hand (the right one). And for a pull-off, you will pull hard off the string to create sounds. With a hammer-on, it is about pressing on the fretboard to produce the sound of the string from your fretting hand, and that does not originate from picking. Both of them are the techniques producing sound from the fretboard hand. Now let’s have a quick review of the hammer-on and pull-off movement. Hammer-ons & Pull-offsĮmember that a legato technique will include a series of hammer-ons and pull-offs. Its literal meaning is ‘tied together,’ but in musical terms it means that you should play the notes in a smooth manner, with no space between one note and the next. However, legato is a term that you will hear a lot once you start getting into lead guitar playing. When we talk about legato, the first thing that comes to mind is being able to run through scales smoothly by hammering on multipul notes at high speed as you move up and down the fretboard. But, the context is important, she says it as a generalization of a guitar solo, but using it as a cultural exhalt to switch the audience attention from her over to the guitarist. Is this video she uses the phrase “shredding on the guitar” referring the their lead guitar doing a guitar solo – just strumming chords. You can take a look at known shred guitarists like Zakk Wylde or Kirk Hammet and can see that they are known for playing fast using a variety of techniques (discussed below).īut, you can find Hayley Williams using the terms differently (on one of her live video playing misery business, see here). For example, some people may be referring to people’s playing style, technique or even just playing a guitar solo. However, this word can be use interchangably. Shredding on the guitar (also known as shred guitar) basically means playing fast.
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