I covered Steve Howe's 'Clap'

started learning this one on Saturday I think...



kinda sloppy on some of the hard parts and yeah I'm lazy and using a pick the whole time, don't have the technique to pull it off the way he plays it. but I think it sounds good enough on its own.

thoughts? criticism? lemme know what you guys think!

...And "Gnarled Trees" is great.  

thanks for the kind words guys. learning it his way would be a good challenge, but he does it with a pick and fingers simultaneously, right? although I'm pretty decent at fingerpicking itself from classical guitar lessons as a kid I've always had a lot of trouble doing the pick and fingers thing, but i guess that's a good reason to work on it haha.

and yeah dayvenkirq that slip up is painful hehe, you'd think the part with just straight chord changes would be the easy part but i keep missing that last switch

I was shocked to see the pick. Then I was immediately struck by your conviction. Your technique is well developed. Some seasoned guitarists would get the impression that the piece would be more difficult played with a pick. Your presentation of the piece draws interesting conclusions. Regarding right hand picking technique ...there is a growth experience that takes your mind to strange new levels. Flaminco, Classical, Ragtime, etc....It forces you to strip bare of your other electric guitar techniques and both worlds become united..and like Steve Howe right?  You already have a nice technique so I'm betting it would come easy for you. Nice playing!

thanks again for all the kind words guys! and yeah toddler i get what you mean, just to clarify i am by no means one of those dudes who just plays everything on electric, like i said i used to have classical guitar lessons and currently my main guitar is an acoustic 12 string. woulda played the song on that but it's missing a couple of strings at the moment.

could anyone clear up for me whether Howe did it all fingerpicking or fingers + pick? I think my ultimate goal will be to fingerpick this on my 12 string, i think it would add a really nice touch to the tune

ah so it is pick + fingers... honestly not sure if i'm gonna go through with learning that, it's always been such a pain in the ass for me and doesn't seem worth it when i could make it sound good with just a pick or just fingers

I mean obviously any technique is beneficial but i mean it doesn't seem worth it going through all that trouble when i can already make it sound good. maybe i'm just being a chump, *shrug* i'm pretty lazy and difficult when it comes to the technicalities of guitar and music because i'm so much more interested in the actual music that worrying about little technical things doesn't seem significant enough for me.

 also if i was fingerpicking the whole thing i would just use my thumb for the bass strings and i don't think it would necessarily be any louder or sharper if i used a pick instead of my thumb

i mean as far as loudness I think i could do as loud or as quiet as i wanted to do with either pick or thumb.. as far as the sound, sure, they are different, but I don't think one is inherently better than the other. I've always really dug the twangy sound you get from the thumb

Just remember to keep them clean