Irish music is dance music, so creating a solid rhythmic feel is essential. In this lesson, Marla gets you started thinking about your picking-hand technique, explaining alternate picking (or as she calls it, “rhythmic picking”) and showing you a good basic picking motion for your picking hand. She talks about stressing the downstrokes to get the underlying rhythm for an Irish reel, and gives you a picking exercise for practicing putting a stress on the backbeat. You’ll also learn an exercise based on the rhythm of the tune “Hernando’s Hideaway” to get your hand moving in the baseline rhythm of whatever tune you’re playing, so you don’t need to think about whether you should be playing a downstroke or an upstroke.
| |
Picking-Hand Technique (Available to subscribers)
|
