Amazing! How excellent is YT where a lesson of this quality is FREE. In the old days you'd be lucky to find a teacher with this skill let alone afford the session.

Hey Brad. Just showed my nephew. He will be in his room practicing for quite a while! Happy thanksgiving brother

Saw Brad at Portman’s in Savannah back early this century. What a pleasure to have seen him and exposed to this fantastic technique.

@BradDavisMusic

3 жыл бұрын

THANKS JEFF, more dates this year and a host of live performances via online and new instructional material avail online as well, take care

Sometimes, music just makes me happy... what a nice song.

I don't understand the 20 dislikes - who can't see that this is amazing skill and talent? Not to mention either the generosity in in showing the technique!

@er1cmaurer

3 жыл бұрын

Likely people accidentally pressing dislike and not realizing it. I’ve done that before.

@yensilluap

3 жыл бұрын

@@er1cmaurer Good thought!

I'm more of a hard rock progressive metal guy myself but I love to see anyone who has really put in the time to get good at their instrument. Anything that is done well is worth a listen. This guy has put in the time and my hat goes off to him!

This lesson just solved issues I have been struggling with, as far as timing and clarity of my picking. Thank you so much.

Oh man, thanks for sharing your technique, this is so awesome! Sounds so good. So many other players would keep this to themselves, you are such a cool dude! Thanks again!

Thanks for your excellent, patient, clear instruction!

Absolutely nuts!!, so amazingly good!!, thanks Brad for sharing that.

Brad is awesome. He really didn't have to share this but he did. What a great guy, huh? What would make you feel better: keeping this to yourself and blowing everyone away or, sharing this on youtube and seeing everyone using a technique you invented? Thankfully for all of us Brad chose the latter. Now, let's see some double down up videos from y'all! :-)

Just incredible... Brad, this reminds me of Richard Thompsons picking abandon...and also the things about the Irish and Scottish American country-folk music that has always struck the deep nerve...! And this observation comes to you from a hybrid Seminole/Scot/Italian that lives in Hawaii...(where slack-key picking and folk story-telling rule...). Mahalo nui! ;)

Great technique. I need to master this

@jerrywestfall5101

7 жыл бұрын

Steve

@BradDavisWORLD

7 жыл бұрын

Steve sorry for the slow reply, it's best to practice this with a muted left hand, drum machine and run through the strings staring with the 6th&5th, then 5th&4th and so on all the way down at a slow tempo to get the right hand dialed in. The left will get there don't worry, the right hand is the main issue and focus!

@MFDOOOOM

3 жыл бұрын

@@BradDavisWORLD thanks for the tips mate, great playing

beautiful man. some of those licks are so well knit. great stuff

I would say, Brad Davis is a nice and a giving person. He explains the whole thing very sincerely. thank you April 09, 2013

Beautiful efficiency of motion, great explanation, Thank You ! Five Star Talent.

@BradDavisWORLD

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sorry for the slow reply, it's best to practice this with a muted left hand, drum machine and run through the strings staring with the 6th&5th, then 5th&4th and so on all the way down at a slow tempo to get the right hand dialed in. The left will get there don't worry, the right hand is the main issue and focus!

@BradDavisMusic

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for kind words!

How could anyone not ❤ this ?!!

@BradDavisMusic

7 ай бұрын

I appreciate the kind words

Awesome technique!

Thank you, Mr. Brad Davis! That's some fine pickin', there!

Rad technique. Thanks for sharing what took you TIME to discover.

THANK YOU! Great stuff!

every once and a while you find those great songs by someone you have no clue about, this is one of them

Very cool...thanks for posting

Marvelous....!!!

Awesome!

Monster!

This is very cool!

That is some slick picking

Down down up gives a flatpicker the keys to the universe.

@BradDavisMusic

Жыл бұрын

That is how I felt when I first discovered it

20 dislikes, lol, those 20 people are those who cant play this, or worse, they cant even practice it with slow speed haha

George Shuffler used a double down up roll on guitar in the 50's with Carter and Ralph Stanley, but you've definitely taken that to the next level!

This guy explains himself so clearly, it's awesome. Some players are amazing, but can't go over what they do for shit. Ever watched George Benson's video? It's awesome, he's awesome, his playing is awesome -- but good luck learning anything.

F'awesome!

Thanks Brad, Awesome.

Hi Brad, this stuff your teaching is amazing!!! I'm driving my wife crazy with it but thats Okay. when I get real good at it I'll just dedicate a song to her and it'll be alright. hey Brad thanks for all you do. A big fan, Larry.

it's not always triplets!!! In flatpicking Guitar magazine he has a good DDU exercise. Trojun he developed this for blugrass guitar, so he is given the credit for it. While he's a great flatpicker, there are others that can stand firmly with him, notabley T Rice, B Sutton, D Grier, K Smith.

New technique learned awesomeness....

man that pick style rocks, man, ima have to keep training till get a sound like yours. Ure amazin man!! take care! keep it real!

Great Stuff. Thank you very much. Great Stuff

There is no substitute for talent!

awesome !

@JohnAnyone

8 жыл бұрын

+Gregory Bowen Brown absolutely!

It reminds me of the beat of an Irish bodhran. I am gonna have to try this. The sound is so unique.

Wow….the song he played is a beauty

Thank U,,Sir...

brilliant pickin!

This song is great

This guy rules

Thank you!

Thanks Brad...

Thanks man. Got to straight away!

thanks a lot!!

this guy loves himself... i would to if i could play that.. purely amazing

very good man

Pure lightening

Very nice, VERy nice! Good to know!

NICE!

this is MAGIC, I enjoy this "kind of tecnique", just a question: does he doing it all the way down to the end of the song, I mean the double down up or is it mixed with simple down up? thanks a lot lot for this add. can you put some more of this guy?

Sounds more like Tennesee than Cali but killer beautiful tune. Love this technique works in many more ways than demonstrated but great demo considering it is 5min with a song at the end. You are a monster Brad, very nice job.

Sounds like banjo cool technique thx dude ^^

thats a fuckin trademark there

God given talent called practice ;)

Steve Howe did it too. I never saw anyone else do it till now. I messed with it for years , Theres a lot you can do it works well with bluegrass

Absolute economy of movement -- his trademark... Tq

Wow.

wow!

amazing sounding stuff, i really like this technique, sounds a bit like a banjo at times.

WOW

@electroneticTV yes

nice

Awesome must be the right word^^

It isn't a Breedlove, it is a Takamine. The headstock is covered because of the B-string bending device mechanism that is mounted on the headstock. Once when I was using the device it came apart in the middle of a bend and a part flew off and almost hit someone in the head. So the cover is there for safety reasons.

@msrock78g

6 жыл бұрын

A Tan16c?

5:43 I have been inspired! :O

@marimanque I'd say 1.0mm or more. Brad discusses his pick in another video and says it's a 1.24mm one from a company called 'Red Bear'.

🤯

I totally agree! I'd like to think I'd be a "good enough guy" to show the things that took me years to learn...but I don't know if I would be willing to do that. Of course, this isn't something we could master very quickly! hahaha. But still...what a guy!

17 years

bcbenp44 i think ian anderson uses it in My God by Jethro Tull

It's similar to sweeps, but sweeps don't use rest strokes, that is, with the pick literally resting on the adjacent upper/lower string after the plucking motion. Also, unlike sweeps, the double down up is more percussive. It reminds me of Victor Wooten's slapping on the bass guitar.

The key of D means the root note of a scale (the first note) is D. It could be any scale (theres millions). Its important to know and understand scales to understand melodies, solos and chord structure. The few barre chords you learned are based of the minor and major scale (most basic scales). So to answer your question learn scales! Many of them! Cheers.

Agreed. Been doing this in Irish music for years. He's got nothing on Tony Rice, anyway. Sounds more like a practice tune than an actual piece. He's in dropped D, btw.

Yngie Malmsteen uses this technique a lot to play repeated arpeggios. E.g A minor arpeggio would A at 10th fret B string, then C on E string and E at 12th fret E string. Played down down up. Play as a triplet and repeat (and/or shift to, say, E7).

Plz plz.. my humble request that give us tutorial on this fast picking solo or riff.. with one workout exercise example.. thank you

@BradDavisWORLD

7 жыл бұрын

Steve sorry for the slow reply, it's best to practice this with a muted left hand, drum machine and run through the strings staring with the 6th&5th, then 5th&4th and so on all the way down at a slow tempo to get the right hand dialed in. The left will get there don't worry, the right hand is the main issue and focus! I am working with management to a video like you suggested up on line.

how is this different from regular crosspicking 2 down and 1 up???

@gimpyjwilliams I think it's there to cover the Takamine logo. At least, I think that's what he's playing.

4:28...nice

This is a little flashier version of George Shuffler's original cross picking for the Stanley Brothers from 40 years ago.

@daberko120ch lol i know who who van halen is ^^. but thank you for the info and the video.

like Country !

@DannyCozzi Sarcasm meter has reached a new level. beware the event horizon!

Always haters…can’t fix stupid this guy rocks 🎉

in Mexico we call this tripletes!!

This is the ‘rest stroke’ technique used in gypsy jazz

Would love to hear this technique on an electric, is that possible? OMG

This is almost identical to Yngwie Malmsteen's circle picking technique . Great job .

@jakemf1

8 жыл бұрын

Closer to gypsy guitar picking they do that rest stroke trick

@HotRodSixString

8 жыл бұрын

If that's a rest stroke then every time I hit the string with my pick I'm resting . Skip to 4:27 in the video and watch him not come to a "rest" on the next string down as he describes it earlier in the video . His technique is awesome but he says one thing and does another when brought up to speed . Who ever heard of sweep picking being called a series of rest strokes as you brush past the string .

@fatalbroadcast

7 жыл бұрын

Completely different, Malmsteen uses alternate, and sweep picking,...

I keep hitting the upper string when coming back up. It's a problem I've struggled with my whole life.

@phoenixmichaels

6 жыл бұрын

There's a bit of a rotational thing going on with the hand/palm as well, it's very subtle but you can see the palm moving in and out from the strings which effects the depth of the picking... the palm is OUT a bit on that upstroke. This angles the pick on the upstroke to miss that top string coming up. It's basically a small-scale sweep picking tool, and a very good one. I like hearing these techniques being utilized for actual licks rather than just arpeggios.

I taught myself, so I take it, it is important to learn scales? I can play open chords, and few barr chords... is it important to learn scales? For example you said in the key of D, or key of G? is that scales?

smart

Is an Electro accoustic guit i very like his song can you tell me the mark

Lots of people listen to django reinhardt. I've been trying to learn flatpicking after 40 years of fingerpicking... Don't care what anyone says, this stuff is hard but oh so nice.

Hole---Eee Shhhhit!!!