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Chiefbigeasy · 2014-09-24 22:24:06

As a relatively new student to this style, I'm doing my best to adopt rest stroke picking. In my previous post, I was concentrating on untangling my left hand fretting fingers with whilst playing the decidedly non--intuitive yet beautiful and melodic phrases I'm learning from Django and others. I am not, however, ignoring…

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Fine-tuning efficient rest stroke picking

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Jazzaferri Victoria B.C.Moderator Dunn Ultrafox, DuPont MDC20 Gretsch Chet Atkins CG

October 2014 Posts: 3,707

When I was getting used to my Blue Chip I played around with pick to string angles from 0 parallel to about 30 degrees. I found there was a small range which the best comination of sound and esde of picking. It is different from the angle of the Wegen Big City

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