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• davidjazzfan New

  March 21 Posts: 22

  i have bought cheap gipsy jazz guitar that i love

  
• voutoreenie New

  March 21 Posts: 386

  Sounds really nice, technique looks good -- maybe just turn down the backing track a bit? ;)

  I kid. Kind of. But seriously, try shortening up your attack so the pick strokes are a bit more compact. That was the advice I received a few years back when asking similar questions and it really helped. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same for all of us so try different picks/strings/bridges/etc. Either way, welcome to the madness and glad to hear you're loving the new axe!

  
• davidjazzfan New

  5:22AM Posts: 22

  https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/124850#Comment_124850

  Thank you for the advice!

  
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  11:45AM Posts: 5,894

  David, your tone and technique both look and sound fine to me. Maybe try using more of the weight of the wrist, sort of try letting the wrist drop down on the string, letting the gravity do the work. If you're after a specific tone then find a player you like and copy their hand position, pick attack etc, from the videos. It's really all about experimenting.

  

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• pdg ✭✭

  12:25PM Posts: 657

  The weights of people's hands, wrists, and arms vary tremendously from one person to another. (In addition to the weight of the wrist, the arm weight is apparently another factor, according to Antoine Boyer and maybe others.)

  So, e.g., what may work for a stocky person may not produce the same result for a slender person.

  
• voutoreenie New

  1:26PM Posts: 386

  So, e.g., what may work for a stocky person may not produce the same result for a slender person.

  @pdg Yeah, this is what took me a really long time to recognize, understand and ultimately figure out how to compensate for...I'm tall (6'4), overweight (230-240) plus wingspan like I'm the missing link (6'7.5"-6'8). And funny you mention Antoine because as I've posted about before (if not ad nauseam by now), his advice after observing my technique specifically may have helped me the most with this. Because I do think some of my early struggles stemmed from watching and emulating technique from players who clearly share nothing with me in terms of physical dimensions lmao
• littlemark New

  6:54PM Posts: 522

  Yeah technique looks ok. Notes are clear. Maybe it's the guitar itself? You might not be used to how this guitar sounds. Or Selmer style guitars in general.

  You can try picking in different places. Closer or further from the bridge.

  I assume you are using a rigid pick. At least 2mm thick?

  You can try slightly angleing the more parallel with the strings.