Comments on: Audio blog: how to pick banjo fast? Put your fingers by the strings and wiggle http://banjosrule.com/blog/audio-blog-how-to-pick-banjo-fast-put-your-fingers-by-the-strings-and-wiggle/ Once I coodn't even spel bango pikker...now I are one! Mon, 31 May 2010 18:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jesse Taylor II http://banjosrule.com/blog/audio-blog-how-to-pick-banjo-fast-put-your-fingers-by-the-strings-and-wiggle/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Jesse Taylor II Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:25:49 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=719#comment-506 A spider on Crack...that's great! Having listened to your audio blog, I couldn't agree more about "cranking up the speed" in the privacy of your own space. Speed is built in private. That's going to be most relaxed environment and that relaxation is very necessary for your muscles and mind to function smoothly. You've got to feel unpressured and unjudged and that leads to being unhibited, which is necessary for total concentration applied to maximum effort. So, go ahead and have those "mad minutes". Pick out something you're most familiar with and take off with it. Familiarity is going to be one of the keys to speed. As Paul mentioned, you'll notice a funny thing has happened after a "speeding session". When you go back to the picking techniques you may find them easier to perform. Why this is may take a psychiatrist to explain, but it does happen. Far from being a bad thing, a little applied speed can lead to good things. So, by the authority granted through the fabulous blog site of Mr. Banjo Paul, consider this to be your ticket to ride. You'll benefit from it. It works. Don't know why, but it works. That's your brain on speed. -Jesse A spider on Crack…that’s great!
Having listened to your audio blog, I couldn’t agree more about “cranking up the speed” in the privacy of your own space. Speed is built in private. That’s going to be most relaxed environment and that relaxation is very necessary for your muscles and mind to function smoothly. You’ve got to feel unpressured and unjudged and that leads to being unhibited, which is necessary for total concentration applied to maximum effort.
So, go ahead and have those “mad minutes”. Pick out something you’re most familiar with and take off with it. Familiarity is going to be one of the keys to speed.
As Paul mentioned, you’ll notice a funny thing has happened after a “speeding session”. When you go back to the picking techniques you may find them easier to perform. Why this is may take a psychiatrist to explain, but it does happen. Far from being a bad thing, a little applied speed can lead to good things.
So, by the authority granted through the fabulous blog site of Mr. Banjo Paul, consider this to be your ticket to ride. You’ll benefit from it. It works. Don’t know why, but it works. That’s your brain on speed.
-Jesse

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]]> By: PickinChick http://banjosrule.com/blog/audio-blog-how-to-pick-banjo-fast-put-your-fingers-by-the-strings-and-wiggle/comment-page-1/#comment-480 PickinChick Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:17:33 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=719#comment-480 A spider on crack....you know, that's the best description of my picking that I've ever heard. Tim, did you dream up that analogy at FallFest? A spider on crack….you know, that’s the best description of my picking that I’ve ever heard. Tim, did you dream up that analogy at FallFest?

]]> By: TimS http://banjosrule.com/blog/audio-blog-how-to-pick-banjo-fast-put-your-fingers-by-the-strings-and-wiggle/comment-page-1/#comment-477 TimS Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:14:32 +0000 http://banjosrule.com/blog/?p=719#comment-477 I think the "controlled fall" of the fingers is a good analogy. The muscle memory is the key for the right hand and speed, in my humble opinion. I've recently been catching myself focusing on what my left hand is supposed to be doing, and then realizing my right hand has been on autopilot, picking away without any intervention from my brain. That is a cool feeling. Of course, the minute I realize this, the moment passes, and my right hand begins to resemble a spider on crack skittering around on the banjo head. The audio portion was a nice touch. It's amazing how an accomplished picker can even make a simple alternating roll sound good. Tim I think the “controlled fall” of the fingers is a good analogy. The muscle memory is the key for the right hand and speed, in my humble opinion. I’ve recently been catching myself focusing on what my left hand is supposed to be doing, and then realizing my right hand has been on autopilot, picking away without any intervention from my brain. That is a cool feeling. Of course, the minute I realize this, the moment passes, and my right hand begins to resemble a spider on crack skittering around on the banjo head.

The audio portion was a nice touch. It’s amazing how an accomplished picker can even make a simple alternating roll sound good.

Tim

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