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Mind telling me how?

I can travis pick alright, but my attempts at Chet sound pretty horrible. And the gear is not to blame

I know it's all practice...

Your thumb must pump away... independent of the fingers, said Gautama Buddha.

This course has helped a load, but there is still a huge gap in difficulty going to Chet's actual songs. https://truefire.com/essentials-guitar- ... tyle/c1012

Will report back after another year.

Nope, not I. In fact my finger picking is pretty woeful really.

You selling the Gretsch? How come?

IMOCD wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 3:27 pm Nope, not I. In fact my finger picking is pretty woeful really.

You selling the Gretsch? How come?

Bah, I duno. Wanted to 'upgrade'... or did I (manic episode, mental health not so good these days), lucky for me it's a bit of a niche hard sell It did result in a roland jazz chorus which I love (till that princeton reverb came up for sale...) and my mate brought around his geets during a hang and I realised how much I like filtertrons again.



Flipping guitars... my wife calls me crazy but I'm just working on my rockshop resume

I love his mr sandman
Learnt it years ago when I had a Gretsch

Little bit! Try Jam Man if you haven't already - easy enough Chet song.

telefiend wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:39 pm Little bit! Try Jam Man if you haven't already - easy enough Chet song.

Is that the bluesy one with all the bends???

quyet wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:47 pm

telefiend wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:39 pm Little bit! Try Jam Man if you haven't already - easy enough Chet song.

Is that the bluesy one with all the bends???

Nah I think it was in car commercials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad6CHpiU6IU

Chet in a box

Cool... ima try learn mr sandman. Need a better thumb pick tho. I have a planetwaves and it's nasty. Any recommendations?

D'Andrea is the best I've found so far, but it still leaves a lot to be desired

Gah! My thumbpick is only good for downstrokes... is that normal? Watched a couple youtoobs... and I suspect they only downstroke the bass notes in Travis picking? The plectrum in me rebels against this.

Is there a thumbpick designed for alterate directions? Or should I just man up?

the boom-chick basslines are all downstrokes, but they also embellish with some alternate picking here and there, yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbuA677sRbk&t

doesn't look like there's a single thumb upstroke in mr sandman

Cdog wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:06 am Gah! My thumbpick is only good for downstrokes... is that normal? Watched a couple youtoobs... and I suspect they only downstroke the bass notes in Travis picking? The plectrum in me rebels against this.

Is there a thumbpick designed for alterate directions? Or should I just man up?

I have used Dunlop, Planet Waves, Acri pro and many others over the years. Currently running Fred Kelly Bumblebees, you can up pick very easy, just grab like a flatpick.

https://www.amazon.com/Fred-Kelly-Picks ... 145&sr=8-1

k1w1 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 11, 2021 8:11 pm

Cdog wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 7:06 am Gah! My thumbpick is only good for downstrokes... is that normal? Watched a couple youtoobs... and I suspect they only downstroke the bass notes in Travis picking? The plectrum in me rebels against this.

Is there a thumbpick designed for alterate directions? Or should I just man up?

I have used Dunlop, Planet Waves, Acri pro and many others over the years. Currently running Fred Kelly Bumblebees, you can up pick very easy, just grab like a flatpick.

https://www.amazon.com/Fred-Kelly-Picks ... 17&sr=8-12#

Those look a lot like the pick clip: https://guitarpedalshoppe.com/index.php ... -Pick-Clip