#Joe bonamassa shred video how to#

“People think my manager and I sat down and hatched a master plan,” says Bonamassa, who has spent most of his career releasing albums through J&R Adventures, the label he started with manager Roy Weisman. “But I knew there had to be a better way.” But more than a decade and a half into his career, today Bonamassa has arrived at the pinnacle of the blues-rock world-and he’s done it without the help of a record label. “People told me I was destined to play rib joints and biker rallies all my life,” says Joe Bonamassa, reflecting on his early years as a struggling blues-rock guitarist. I can try and find some of my old posts where I did that a few years ago.JOE BONAMASSA Goodbye to the rib joints, hello to blues-rock guitar hero status If I didn't have carpal tunnel stuff going on, I'd tab out a ton of examples.

It'll seem weird at first because you have to setup or think about everything, but once you play'em a ton, they become natural sounding. They've done the patterns so much, it's natural to them. That's all, it's really simple, arrange for outside picking. He uses a bounce when he sweeps to help give separation to the notes so they don't sound like a sweep. Just watch the video you posted above, you can see him on the fast runs, using double down to get to a four note, outside picking scheme. What they do is often arrange the patterns so they can outside pick, or down sweep to get to the outside pick pattern they want. They do not follow alternate picking like most metronome guys do, they do not follow economy picking thinking. They all do it a little different, but have a common ground. I've put a lot of time in studying the guys mentioned here along with Yngwie who does a little different yet similar. He'll do consecutive upstrokes in stuff like the opening to Cliffs of Dover. EJ does use consecutive upstrokes but separate strokes, not sweep/econ picking. Very interested to hear what other people think.ĮJ and JB would definitely not play that line that way jazzandmetal.

I think he probably could if wanted, but I think he skips notes, he just has the ability to make a picked note, or hammer/pull off sound identical.īonammasa is someone i've just started getting into, and it looks like he DOES pick every note. I've been slowing down EJ's Total Electric Guitar and trying to figure out if he is actually picking every note, and I don't think he is. (not just for economy picking purposes, crossing strings is the slowest part of the process so I think they tend to maximize single string picking as much as possible) Heck, most of Paul Gilbert's pentatonic shred licks involve hammers and pulls. I find it odd that EJ has claimed not be a very fast picker (or said something like, plenty of guys pick faster than me), yet he zips through these 2 note per string patterns when most shred guys prefer 3 notes. (In the sense that it's something I've been wondering for a long time.).

#Joe bonamassa shred video how to#

I know how to build speed with a metronome etc, but I'm just looking for insight as to how they cross strings when they pick fast. Is this how Eric and Joe do it, or do they strictly economy pick those fast runs, or do they mix up alternate picking and economy picking, mix alternate and rake picking only,(etc)? I can pick kinda fast as it is, but I really want to blaze across the strings like they do. That one thing made a huge improvement in my ability to ply the phrase easier and thus faster. It seemed a bit cumbersome, so I economy/slip picked from the last note of the phrase to the beginning note of the next phrase like this:ĭ-U-D-U-*D-*D-U-D-U-*D-*D-U etc. A few days ago I tried to pick a Joe/Eric inspired quintuplet run like this, using strict alternate picking:ĭ-U-D-U-D-U-D-U-D-U-D-U-D-U-D-U-D-U-D-U I've tried to pick some of these runs using strict economy picking, but the upstroke to a lower string is a lot more difficult than the downstroke to a higher string. Nothing too in depth or something I've studied for years or anything. This is just based on my own superficial analysis. Watching both guys pick those runs, it looks like they are mixing economy picking and alternate picking to get across the strings efficiently, and they use a lot of triplets mixed in with 5 note groupings. Does anyone here have a handle on their picking techniques used to cross strings? I don't want to get into the bounce technique or circle picking bending the thumb joint, just about how they cross strings for those super fast 2 note per string pentatonic runs (mostly descending).