Weirdest Technique?

guitarjack66

CaseOfAce said:

Marty Friedman's picking technique - looks strange - but works for him.

Am I the only one who pictures Marty Feldman and his bulging eyes playing a guitar here?

froglord

Richie Havens - barre chords with his thumb over the top of the neck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dlIUdYXiyw

PAL

No such thing as weird because people do what feels natural for themselves. 

MSedg

Wilko Johnson. Both the strumming/picking technique, and the dubious lead-with-your-head dance moves.

rocktron

I saw the video of Ozzy Osbourne's song Shot In The Dark with Zakk Wylde on guitar.

Jake E Lee played guitar on the original, and I was wondering how he got the harmonics at the beginning.

This guy explains it really well for getting harmonics from behind the nut:-  

Btrcu

dean111music said:

Winny_Pooh said:

Knopfler's right hand
Zappa's right hand

Jeff Healey 

great video! have you got any good link for knopfler and Zappa?

Quite a clean video of Zappa’s style (mostly upstrokes and something that I’ve discovered is called “scalpel picking”). An early example of tapping as well, although Zappa usually used his pick for this, rather than his fingers.

Music starts at 3:28.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSPdg4yPwAg

EricTheWeary

Stuckfast said:

I wonder if Jeff Healey started out playing Appalachian dulcimer? The techniques are surprisingly similar, though obviously without the blistering solos on dulcimer.

I have a vague memory that he started on trumpet (like Walter Trout and Flea). 

Anyway, that South African chap who played with a spoon in his mouth. That one. 

JerkMoans

Perhaps not a weird 'technique', but given that the thread has inevitably featured some amazing musicians working around disabilities, the Dude out of Xander and the Peace Pirates was born without a right arm below the elbow and plays his guitar using a prosthesis and hook with a pick attached at the end.  Check him out:

stufisher

Good call from @rocktron about Carl Brown.
He's my go to guy for detailed explanations and demonstrations of technique mastery and trickery.

Whilst 'guitarlessons365' doesn't cover every song/track, it has enough range to cater for most folks I'd suspect.

Carl Brown seems to be able to demonstrate and explain anything ... certainly for my level of competence.

bloodandtears

rocktron said:

I saw the video of Ozzy Osbourne's song Shot In The Dark with Zakk Wylde on guitar.

Jake E Lee played guitar on the original, and I was wondering how he got the harmonics at the beginning.

This guy explains it really well for getting harmonics from behind the nut:-  

This reminds me of another Jake technique.. same song... at the end of the solo there is a strange tremolo-picking tapping ascending run..  achieved by tremolo picking at the fret you would tap... the pick is held at an angle in such a way that it forces the string onto the fret like a finger tap would, except at tremolo picking speed..  I was yesterday old when I learnt that...

hollywoodrox

BillDL said:

Mark Goffeney.  Sadly he died in 2021.

More videos of his HERE

Wikipedia page.

Didn’t know he died ,seen him on YouTube before ,so sad , amazing skills 

JCA2550

Hootsmon said:

Steve Morse looks like he has the worst of techniques and should not work and then he plays..............

Steve Morse has put his slightly unusual way of rigidly holding the pick down to being left handed. Definitely works though.

joeW

George Benson's unusual way of holding his pick is definitely odd, but his ability to clean pick monster runs with very even definition means is certainly didn't hold him back.  I still try to use this technique with very limited results.
Wes Montgomery got by with just his thumb, which he also used for upstrokes.

Sporky

That Michael Angelo Battio thing where he plays on four guitars at the same time and puts his hands over and under the neck and it still just sounds like generic widdlywiddlywiddly.