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Weirdest Technique?

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Whats the Weirdest Technique you have seen someone use or do?


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  • TanninTannin Frets: 4394
    We are talking music, are we?
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  • lustycourtierlustycourtier Frets: 3115
    Kirk Hammetts middle finger on his picking hand
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    I'm going for bassist Quintin Berry. Nobody else plays bass this way!


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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7202
    edited July 2022
    Knopfler's right hand
    Zappa's right hand

    Jeff Healey 



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  • dean111musicdean111music Frets: 278
    Tannin said:
    We are talking music, are we?
    haha yes guitarist mainly but bass players too
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  • dean111musicdean111music Frets: 278

    lustycourtier said:
    Kirk Hammetts middle finger on his picking hand
    any footage or pictures? this one might be new to me!
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  • dean111musicdean111music Frets: 278

    Winny_Pooh said:
    Knopfler's right hand
    Zappa's right hand

    Jeff Healey 



    great video! have you got any good link for knopfler and Zappa?
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  • flying_pieflying_pie Frets: 1767
    Tosin Abasi's right hand - in particular the double thumb which is no doubt massively influenced by Victor Wooten

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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 5615
    Mark Goffeney.  Sadly he died in 2021.



    More videos of his HERE
    Wikipedia page.
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  • BarneyBarney Frets: 598
    This guy ...also a great player I think 

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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    To bad about Mark Goffeney, I didn't realise that he had died.
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  • KKJaleKKJale Frets: 967
    edited July 2022
    Cedell Davis.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA9pKWoOmbc

    Polio sufferer who developed his own way of playing. 
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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30192
    Lindsey Buckingham's electric techniques are absolutely unique to him

    *An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.

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  • HootsmonHootsmon Frets: 15657
    Steve Morse looks like he has the worst of techniques and should not work and then he plays..............
    tae be or not tae be
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  • stratman3142stratman3142 Frets: 2072
    Barney said:
    This guy ...also a great player I think 


    Matteo Mancuso is so good, I wonder whether his is the new 'correct' technique and the rest of us are doing it wrong :)
     
    It's not a competition.
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  • CaseOfAceCaseOfAce Frets: 1067
    Marty Friedman's picking technique - looks strange - but works for him.
    Just like a headless horse without a horse.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Gary Moore’s using 1st and 2nd finger for whole tones
    Paul_C said: People never read the signature bit.
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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2124
    I wonder if Jeff Healey started out playing Appalachian dulcimer? The techniques are surprisingly similar, though obviously without the blistering solos on dulcimer.
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  • springheadspringhead Frets: 1522
    Stuckfast said:
    I wonder if Jeff Healey started out playing Appalachian dulcimer? The techniques are surprisingly similar, though obviously without the blistering solos on dulcimer.
    I think it was how he first managed to ‘hold’ and play the guitar when he started at 3 years old. 
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  • SporkySporky Frets: 23802
    Sonic Youth, jamming drumsticks between the strings. Etc. 
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • guitarjack66guitarjack66 Frets: 1397
    CaseOfAce said:
    Marty Friedman's picking technique - looks strange - but works for him.
    Am I the only one who pictures Marty Feldman and his bulging eyes playing a guitar here?
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  • froglordfroglord Frets: 42
    edited July 2022
    Richie Havens - barre chords with his thumb over the top of the neck:



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  • PALPAL Frets: 465
    No such thing as weird because people do what feels natural for themselves. 
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  • MSedgMSedg Frets: 88
    Wilko Johnson. Both the strumming/picking technique, and the dubious lead-with-your-head dance moves.
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  • rocktronrocktron Frets: 797
    I saw the video of Ozzy Osbourne's song Shot In The Dark with Zakk Wylde on guitar.

    Jake E Lee played guitar on the original, and I was wondering how he got the harmonics at the beginning.

    This guy explains it really well for getting harmonics from behind the nut:-  


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  • BtrcuBtrcu Frets: 96
    edited December 2022

    Knopfler's right hand
    Zappa's right hand

    Jeff Healey 

    great video! have you got any good link for knopfler and Zappa?

    Quite a clean video of Zappa’s style (mostly upstrokes and something that I’ve discovered is called “scalpel picking”). An early example of tapping as well, although Zappa usually used his pick for this, rather than his fingers.

    Music starts at 3:28.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSPdg4yPwAg
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    Stuckfast said:
    I wonder if Jeff Healey started out playing Appalachian dulcimer? The techniques are surprisingly similar, though obviously without the blistering solos on dulcimer.
    I have a vague memory that he started on trumpet (like Walter Trout and Flea). 

    Anyway, that South African chap who played with a spoon in his mouth. That one. 
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8372
    Perhaps not a weird 'technique', but given that the thread has inevitably featured some amazing musicians working around disabilities, the Dude out of Xander and the Peace Pirates was born without a right arm below the elbow and plays his guitar using a prosthesis and hook with a pick attached at the end.  Check him out:


    Inactivist Lefty Lawyer
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  • stufisherstufisher Frets: 612
    Good call from @rocktron about Carl Brown.
    He's my go to guy for detailed explanations and demonstrations of technique mastery and trickery.

    Whilst 'guitarlessons365' doesn't cover every song/track, it has enough range to cater for most folks I'd suspect.

    Carl Brown seems to be able to demonstrate and explain anything ... certainly for my level of competence.
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  • bloodandtearsbloodandtears Frets: 1591
    rocktron said:
    I saw the video of Ozzy Osbourne's song Shot In The Dark with Zakk Wylde on guitar.

    Jake E Lee played guitar on the original, and I was wondering how he got the harmonics at the beginning.

    This guy explains it really well for getting harmonics from behind the nut:-  



    This reminds me of another Jake technique.. same song... at the end of the solo there is a strange tremolo-picking tapping ascending run..  achieved by tremolo picking at the fret you would tap... the pick is held at an angle in such a way that it forces the string onto the fret like a finger tap would, except at tremolo picking speed..  I was yesterday old when I learnt that...
    My trading feedback

    is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

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