Dude, that's awesome!

I have to ask you, why did Paul make you use only upstrokes? He has said that he started with only upstrokes himself. I wonder if that is one of the reasons his technique is so amazing. Did he give any insights about that?

Honestly, my playing is so bad, I would’ve just said, “Can you please just shred for 28 minutes straight and leave me 2 minutes to stop crying before the feed cuts out?”

@@hummarstraful Paul asked me to play something to start with, so I did he complemented my playing and speed, we spoke about warming up so he showed me just the upstrokes to begin with, lastly he told me I need to work on my index finger bends and vibrato and was very helpful to show me how to do that...I hope this helps you! =)

@@tapsmiled Yes it was definitely a very humbling experience for me...I won some of his picks and artwork beside the lesson very cool and something I will always remember.

😭😭

I tried to imitate Paul Gilbert using an acoustic guitar

Duh, he made Buckethead...

And then we finally get it, but it is in 360p :(

So true🤘

Those who can do- teach teachers. ;)

@@MusicMotivator I tried to imitate Paul Gilbert using an acoustic guitar

Tbh I think it doesn't apply to a lot of greats. I know it's a regular saying, but it should actually be rephrased to end with "... for a living"

"those who can't do, teach" is such a bullshit saying. usually the most patient and knowledgeable people get the drive to teach.

@@syty747 agreed! i don't believe in this at all

I tried to imitate Paul Gilbert using an acoustic guitar

@@Korus2023 how did it go buddy?

@@fernandomiranda8125 I uploaded it here in my channel. Paul is my idol eversince and i just tried to mimic his style just for fun

@@Korus2023I just watched it, good job!

@@fernandomiranda8125 Bro thank you so much I appreciate it

Yeah, I saw the same thing. Had to stop and watch it several times, thinking what the “heck” was that?

he is playing legato there. just plucking each string once

Someday I hope!

lucky you are!!

Well, was is 3 or 4 times? Smells like bullshit to me...

I tried to imitate Paul Gilbert using an acoustic guitar

Yes. That is true. Seen it first hand several times. My best friend, other lead in my first real band could play Gilbert and Yngwie at 15 (at least) and he could play this stuff cold. It always hurt my pride. We both practived insane hours; like 4-10hrs a day when possible, but speed just came natural to him. Oddly enough, other things came to me more easily, like articulation and sense of rythmn, which made us a more balanced band. Believe it or not, many people liked me better as a player, even though he was clearly faster.

@@typedeaf sure bro...cap

Thank you for letting the guy keep your lesson up here. It is revealing, and though I figured out the trick here (downward pick swiping two strings down blocking the unwanted noise with left hand, and clearing the strings on the up stroke) a while back, this is the best angle to prove the point of how he crosses strings. I realized too that swiping two strings gives a more percussive or aggressive sound to the attack that was also a big difference to the sound between Grady and Gilberts versions of this lick.

I'm also still on the journey to be able to play fast licks by Paul and I discover small things from time to time. So far what I've discovered that is important to play his fast licks are: For your left hand: Place the thumb in the middle of the backside of the neck and don't grip with your thumb over the fretboard like Paul usually does because the size of his hands. Also press your fingers as softly as you can on the strings while still getting a note to ring. For the right hand: The position of the pick in your hand is really important here. The exercise that Paul show us here where you play only upstrokes are actually really good for this. Most people develope their picking techniques and pick position based on downstrokes. The problem then is that the pick doesn't stay still in your hand when doing upstrokes. Paul have mentioned this before that when he first started to play guitar he thought he could only play with upstrokes. I guess this is one of the key elements that made him such a fast player in the end because that gave him the right foundation gripping the pick the right way and also focused hard to play the upstrokes fast. So I practice very hard every day now on getting a good grip with my pick in hand doing upstrokes, also holding the pick and playing with my right and left hand as softly as I can while still getting the sound that I want. Also pickslanting is key to be able to play Paul's 3 notes per string licks or scales. Lastly the position on the right hand should be so that you can play the low E without having to bend the wrist that much. So I try to place the hand just where the low E attaches to the saddle.

I tried to imitate Paul Gilbert using an acoustic guitar

@@Korus2023 ima huge fan of acoustic renditions of typically electric riffs and licks. The resonance of an acoustic guitar just sounds so powerful, from Michael Hedges to Nuno Bettencourt to Van Halen’s Spanish Fly. Keep it up!

@@markbrady7532 Thanks so much bro I appreciate it. I idolized Paul since I was 13 and it helped me a lot to improved my way of playing and I could truly say that I enjoyed playing music so much

Yeah, seriously. I'm a lefty that learned how to play right handed, and definitely wish I would have put more emphasis on technique and endurance for my right hand.

Notice that Paul is using downward pick slant. You can slow this down 4:36 and notice he swipes two string downward and clears them on the up stroke..meaning Troy’s “swiping” technique is employed, not two way slanting. That means the true secret is the left hand blocking the unwanted string

​ Exactly! I've been trying to play this lick for many years and with pick slanting but never really got it to work.. It's nice to finally see that Paul stays in one slant position all the time in this lick.

I tried to imitate Paul Gilbert using an acoustic guitar

That’s weird for me I can play faster on the way back up lol on the way down slower

@@giopereperez4532 ...you are tensing up too much.

@@agmsmith4079 thank you for the tip I will definitely keep an eye on that 😃

By that logic you should be able to pick faster if you were lying down on your back then :P I'd say it's just the fact that it's less natural to move the wrist up than down. The way i see it is that picking speed is about efficiency of movement and control, which you achieve by learning to isolate the movement to specific muscles in your arm to move the wrist.

From a physics standpoint, the tension from your tendons and muscles negates all noticeable benefits of gravity in picking. (strumming is a different story). And yes, I just made all that up. xD

Nice information. Have you watched Anton Oparin’s video that revealed Gilbert’s ‘mistake’ in his trademark picking lick? He didn’t explain it though. He only discusses the solution to that problem in his class

I was going to post the same thing but checked to see if someone had already. Cracking The Code changed my picking.

And yet Paul use only downward pickslanting in this lick.. So he use the swipe motion to be able to do this.