Using Hybrid Picking For Lead Playing With Andy Timmons | Guitar World
MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons
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HYBRID VEHICLE, PART 2
This month, Andy Timmons continues exploring some of the many different and effective ways one can apply hybrid picking to melodic phrases.
#AndyTimmons #ThemeFromaPerfectWorld
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HYBRID VEHICLE, PART 2
This month, Andy Timmons continues exploring some of the many different and effective ways one can apply hybrid picking to melodic phrases.
#AndyTimmons #ThemeFromaPerfectWorld
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Hey, everybody.
00:19 Andy Timmins here, and welcome back to Melodic Muse,
00:21 my column for Guitar World.
00:22 We're going to carry on the ideas
00:24 that we were working on in the previous segment
00:27 with On Your Way Sweet Soul and using some hybrid picking
00:30 ideas.
00:32 In the first installment, we played some pretty simple
00:34 melodic things, but really getting
00:36 lines to have a dynamic shape by utilizing
00:38 the pick and the finger.
00:39 So let's carry on.
00:40 We're going to come up with some melodic exercises
00:42 now to get you on the path of using hybrid picking yourself.
00:46 So let's look at a few basic ideas
00:49 to kind of get you down the path of working
00:52 on using your pick and fingers.
00:54 I'm going to stick to basic E major
00:55 today, since we were talking about On Your Way Sweet
00:58 Soul in this key.
00:58 But--
00:59 [GUITAR PLAYING]
01:02 --just do a simple phrase like that,
01:03 where I'm just playing E major.
01:06 It's one, two, three on the A string.
01:10 And then using my middle finger, picking up on the note B
01:17 on the D string.
01:17 [GUITAR PLAYING]
01:25 So at first, I'm playing a--
01:28 it's kind of eighth note, sixteenth note.
01:30 [GUITAR PLAYING]
01:33 Speeding up to a little triple D.
01:40 Here's another idea in E major, ascending on the A string.
01:44 We're going to use one articulation for each string.
01:47 So pick on the A string, then up pick with the middle finger
01:53 on the D string.
01:56 Then repeat that on the G string.
01:59 And then on the B. A little multi-step bend at the end.
02:05 [GUITAR PLAYING]
02:09 OK.
02:13 [GUITAR PLAYING]
02:16 I'm bending from that--
02:19 the last phrase, I'm bending from a C sharp down to the D--
02:27 from the C sharp to the E. D sharp,
02:30 and then releasing it to the C sharp.
02:31 Nice little melody there.
02:33 [GUITAR PLAYING]
02:36 And by using the middle finger, it
02:39 just has a different articulation
02:41 and a different flow that you can get just using the pick.
02:43 [GUITAR PLAYING]
02:46 Doesn't sound bad, but--
02:47 [GUITAR PLAYING]
02:50 Here's another one in E major.
02:54 And it's essentially a lick that I played wrong
02:58 for most of my life until I met Jeff Carlese.
03:01 There's a great song called "Hold On Loosely"
03:03 that was a big hit for them in the '80s,
03:04 written by the great Jim Peterick.
03:06 And the solo I used to try to play on my early cover bands,
03:11 I got most of it right, but there was just one lick
03:13 I could never get the feel right.
03:14 And the grouping of notes was--
03:15 [GUITAR PLAYING]
03:19 I could do kind of a version of it,
03:23 but I finally got to meet Jeff.
03:25 It's been about 15 years ago.
03:26 We did one of these rock camps together.
03:28 And then finally, face to face, Jeff,
03:30 you got to show me the lick.
03:31 And oh, man, yeah, he picked my guitar up.
03:33 And it's a hybrid picking thing where he's--
03:36 basically out of the E major chord shape--
03:38 [GUITAR PLAYING]
03:42 --where he's just using the middle finger
03:44 to play the top note.
03:45 [GUITAR PLAYING]
03:49 And everything else kind of flows behind it.
03:52 So thank you, Jeff Carlese, for that lovely tidbit.
03:55 And I used it in one of my recorded solos.
03:57 I forget which song right now, but I totally
03:59 took that from Jeff and put it in one of my own tunes
04:02 as a little tribute to him.
04:03 So I hope you dig that.
04:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:07 (upbeat music)
04:10 you