Okay now, we are into the full section which is basically just kind of a tag on really at the end of the third section in terms of context. We are going to be looking at some more pentatonic ideas. But I want to kind of try to introduce to you is a slightly different way of picking which can give you incredible amount of speed. This is kind of a bit of a technique that I have seen a lot of people do. Basically, it is a kind of a snapping technique which if you can get it quick, it is a really kind of a style of picking which can give you incredible speed. So, I am just going to take a look at a simple kind of full note pattern and again, we are going to be looking at a mono first position pentatonic and do not want to get bugged down with theory too much. So, let me just play it here for you.
Okay, it is a pretty fast lick but runny picking to the notes of the four. What we are doing is just kind of keeping the pick angle again. None of this has been flat-picking. So, pick angled at 45 degree angle forwards and which is a kind of pushing through the string if you like. We are not really using any kind of risk action or even form of action or anything at that which is literally pushing through the string and then will be out.
As far as the best way to describe it and from looking at a shown line video either used to many, many years ago, it literally coded snap picking. It was a kind of act in the first three notes that makes it sound incredibly fast. I used this technique quite a lot and it is playing. So, all we are doing is just picking the first three notes for the down stroke and then half stroke and literally come and use your thumb and first finger and extend the pick through the string. But what you are doing, as you bend your thumb, you are pushing the pick thumb and it is kind of that sort of motion. You are not using your hold to do it in which will kind of take the speed out or you literally just do it with your thumb and then with your forefingers as well.
So, you do not really have to read and practice the lick with your left thumb first of all for this. You can really just practice on a sound on just how the strings lock up just down there. Let me just play the slide for you. So, as you see the pick are down, you can see the knuckle and my thumb going in and pulling. It is pretty much picking where you are using literally nerve body force or whatsoever. You are just using a minimal amount of force but it creates a really good effect. And then when you put it with the lick as well, I am just playing the top hand and cross positioning them on and it was just 15, 12 on high E then we got 15. Pull off to 12 on the B string and we will pick a nice full noted over and over again. It is really to just kind of get used to this way of picking. A slide sample again, here it is.
And as you get more comfortable again, you can speed this up again, you can do this on a drum beat over the B 1 and ultimately, this is where the kind of lock speed licks. Once you kind of master that right hand technique, you could then use other notes. 17th fret on a high E string, 14th fret on the high E string, just kind of move the first note around so we are going to have this kind of thing.
And you know with that, you can kind of change the first note but you are still keeping that sound technique. You are moving around like this. You can also add some double picking in there on the first note and if you really want to come and go all the way through and lock that first position pentatonic scale for example, you can literally just do that double picking on each group of four notes. So, you literally have in each group six notes and you will do the first. You will pick the first notes in the technique that we just looked up. You pull off down the scale so you will pick the first, say 15, 12 on the high E. Hammer on 15, pull off to 12 on the B, then 14 pull off to 12 on the G and then you will let it actually stop by a sign pattern. You stop from the B string and you will literally just progress down transposition shape.
So, A-slide tempo is going to look like this. Okay, so as you can see, still just snapping on the first three notes the rest is you hammer on and the quick tempo, it should sound like this.
Okay, then as you get used to that technique, you can then extend that again and your pentatonic. You can kind of steal note on the second position, the kind of do in this sort of thing. You know, that kind of thing. You just literally pick off notes off from the second position and when you get up the speed, it can sound pretty cool. Okay, a slow tempo should look like this. With the last thing I want to look out with you in snap picking is a kind of a no turn. I will show you online to do something like that. And literally, what you are going to do is which is going to go back and I am going to have 15, 17, 19 on the B string. I am going to start with the down stroke. Then we are going pick the last three notes so, 15, 17 and 19 on high E but we are going to start with the note strokes. We are going to have it come with back up, down, up and to finish, we are trying to get more of a snap motion on that string just kind of picking the notes. So, when you get up the speed, you can really kind of hear the picks snapping. Let me just play it up the speed so you can hear one.
So kind of get six really quickly five notes. But you are not really worrying about the first three. Obviously, you pick the first note and stop of the lick but lost three notes that you can really snap picking. You can get lock in incredible sound and then you can pretty much observe that moving around, you might do so more of the pentatonic starting where you can do this sort of thing. And then as you speed up, you can hear more of that snap. Okay, I think you look great here. You can get incredible mono speed up using the snap picking technique. If you got any three note for string ideas that are in grips of four or six notes then you might be wanting to try and keep this technique. I think you will be surprised about how quickly you can get more speed up for these licks and even using any pentatonic as well. So just go slow, then speed it up, and just give it well with all the techniques.
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