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Any excuse to watch Guthrie or Dave K is alright with me. I can honestly say, despite years of Shaun Baxter's technique columns, that is the first clip I've seen of him playing. And no doubt he has some unbelievable ability.
With the points I made about Michael Angelo Batio and Marty Friedman earlier, I wasn't holding either up as an example of perfect technique. Just an example of how very different techniques can achieve the players goals I suppose. I remember in one interview Marty saying he was under doctor's orders not to play when he recorded Rust in Piece, due to some problems he was experiencing (iirc He stopped using large stretches of the fretting hand to help with it).
Avoiding tension seems to be the best advice. A common sense approach will probably be enough for most players, without adopting the full Alexander technique. If it feels wrong it probably is.
Lol, the rest of my post disappeared for some reason.
I meant to say I just see so many guitarists with their picking hands almost in a fist, which feels alien to me. I think it's the whole hand-stabilising thing. I'll have a mess around with changing things up I think.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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When I played live I tended to grip the plectrum too hard and generally bash at the strings, a scratchplate spottled with blood was not uncommon. When I can relax more it's definitely a curled in fingers thing, a sort of gentle wank position ( doing it without a guitar to hand that's what it looks like!).I have a habit of playing lots of stuff on the high E with my second or third finger and I also do bits of chicken picken so I need the second and third fingers above the strings.
I read something with Brad Paisley once that his hybrid-chicken picken style goes out the window a bit playing live because with the adrenalin,etc, its hard to relax enough. I found that marginally reassuring.
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