Very, very good tops. Thnx

Thanks Bill I love Tony Mc Alpine he’s a good one

Hi Bill. I'm so glad I discovered your videos. Imagine that: a thoroughly unpretentious, decent guy who just happens to not only be able to shred like a madman, but can clearly and simply explain it to others! Thanks so much for all of this, but especially the Blackmore tributes. He's always been my favorite guitar player, but he's been generally ignored or sneered at by the majority of players. Keep on posting man! DH

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, David! That is so nice of you to say! Thank you so much for watching! 🙂

Great video 👍

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great stuff. It's great that you mentioned fretting hand strength/dexterity, so many people forget that aspect. One's fretting hand doesn't really care if one plays legato or alternate picking, it's more or less identical as far as one's fretting hand is concerned. Thanks!

They way you swell the volume with you're pick attack is fantastic.

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate your watching!

Awesome video bro. VINNIE Moore is like if dimeola and yngwie had a kid. Your info is very helpful

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Vinnie is awesome...one of my all time favorites! Thanks for watching!

@scatdaddy3790

Жыл бұрын

You have awesome chops yourself. Do you have tabs for the examples in your video?

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I do not have any tabs at the moment...but I am planning on using tabs in the future on my channel here and I will be breaking down a lot of runs and examples. Thanks again for watching! 🙂

Love your vids hope your still playing and doing well

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Yes.. I am still playing now more than ever! 🙂

Almost two years into the process. I am still learning new stuff from you. Thanks for being a class act, Bill!

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much; Sadi! I really appreciate it! Keep up the great work with your playing! 🙂

You movements are so efficient. You seem super cool too! Subbed! 😊

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

good stuff dude

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Wow. This channel is better than anything else with regard to going through all the details people actually want explained for picking technique etc. Thank you. Invaluable stuff.

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Simon! Thank you for watching!

Thanks for the great video Bill. Short, clear and informative. Great playing, beautiful guitar and fantastic tone. 🎵

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I appreciate it! Thank you for watching!

Excellent advice , so true about a persons ‘natural’ picking action. I’ve wasted so much time trying to copy other player’s mechanisms that just result in going backwards🥴

Great lesson Bill! - Not Rushing through phrases, letting the phrases finish. I'm still guilty of getting carried away, thanks for the advice!

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Sam! I appreciate your watching! 🙂

Great playing!

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙂

Excellent Bill. After years of focusing on flamenco, I am now having to brush off the rust and regain my picking skills.

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, Pete! Thank you so much! I am really happy you enjoyed the video. I love the flamenco things I have heard you play...you sound great! Thanks so much for watching! 🙂

Love your videos. Your delivery and explanations are calm with no hype, reminiscent of all the old REH videos, i love it. Do you have any original music anywhere that i can check out?

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! I do have some of my music on KZread here...acoustic and some electric. My album Shadows on. Empty Scaces is streaming on Spotify, Amazon etc. Thanks again! 😊

Another great teaching clip

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much for watching! I really appreciate that! ☺️

Amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 🙂

Excellent playing mate. You have a new subscriber. Good luck with the channel. 👍🏼🎸

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Carlo! I really appreciate it! 🙂👍

great lesson!

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! 🙂

Great lesson. Picking up down motion each note during scale covering entire fretboard, My arm is worn out. After decades i realize I'm not efficient at picking in sync consistant as I thought. Playing legato instead i's clean. Probably from not paying attention. Wish I never started using a pick. After weeks of hybrid picking practice my pinky still useless. Hybrid picking high E with pinky. I keep trying. I don't know? It seems talented players don't stay intermediate very long. (Polyphia made me realize I was intermediate level) Back in 84 Alcatraz live was great yngwie(if you could handle gram bonnets live vocals off) Time odyssey I remember the tone was little different in 88 first released Vinnie Moore. I don't know why played UFO Paul Chapman did great but nobody listened. Good lesson!

Buenos días Maestro Bill Hall excelente Maestro felicidades mi Amigo Gracias !!!!

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Hola. Marcelo! Gracias Amigo! 🙂🖐

Great. It's what Michael Angelo Batio calls PPS (potential picking speed). Tremolo that shifts on other strings later. It's working for me. Great video and really good player!

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I like that... potential picking speed! That's a great way to put it. Thanks so much for watching!

@dimebag108

3 жыл бұрын

@@wth522 thank you for sharing your precious experience :)

I hope you cover Al Di Meola's style.

When you first tried learning Yngwie songs (his solo career) which song did you find most intimidating?

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! I would say I learned a bunch of licks from Black Star and Far Beyond the Sun first. The whole Rising Force album blew me away! 🙂

Hi Bill, great advice, thank you so much. I also tell that to my students. Do you recommend to practice this with a metronome?

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much I really appreciate it! I always practice everything without a metronome and with it. I sort of get it down first as a rhythmic motion and and then once I feel it really strongly while tapping my foot then I'll practice it at different tempos with the metronome. I do practice with the metronome all the time. Thanks so much for watching!

hey Bill amazing playing as always my friend.One question if you dont mind. im having some trouble on learning the ill see the light tonight interlude in terms of note clarity.Do you have any suggestions?

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Hello and thank you! That is a great one to learn...I learned that on back in the day. I would strive to feel the 16ths first...tap your foot and see if you can lock in and pick the 16ths even on one note. Then you can tap you foot and see if you can play even 16s with your left hand...you do not have to pick it or even play is as a legato lick...but go more for trying to feel the rhythm in your finger motions. Then try it with both hands Picking the lick in one position. The key is to feel the rhythm wth the lick while you are playing it. The more even and in time your left hand is the more in sync and articulate the lick will be. Then try it with the rest of line. It always helps me to think in terms of a phrase. I hope that helps!

@dimkalas5206

3 жыл бұрын

thank you very much for your advice! I will try this today. I think i have a good sence of rhythm but i seem to struggle in the second part were he goes from the first to third postition so i'll work on that part

Would you be able to diagnose some of my problems with picking, Bill?

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

Hello! I would reccomend going on Troy Grady's Cracking The Code forum and post a video of your picking in the Technique Critique section. I am on there all the time and you would get some great feedback on your playing from myself and a lot of other great pickers! 🙂

@faureswanepoel1665

2 жыл бұрын

@@wth522 Thanks mate, that's great!

Hey Bill, thanks for this and all of your video! You said you arrange your lines so that you always outside pick. What about descending fours (also ascending fours) on any mode of the Major scale, where inside picking shows up? Do you inside pick there? Do you directional pick two consecutive notes? Do you slur one or more legato notes?

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Hello! Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! I actually do a lot of inside picking also and when I play descending fours and lines like that I always alternate pick everything. Play Eric Johnson Style pentatonic runs i use economy picking with those. Thanks for watching!

@jfo3000

Жыл бұрын

@Bill Hall Guitarist Thanks so much for the answer Bill! Ascending fours like in "I Am a Viking" I've worked in directional picking, but descending fours I purely alternate. Wondering if I should work on alternate picking on ascending fours as well...

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

@@jfo3000 Hi. I think if it working for you and you feel comfortable playing ascending that way then that’s the most important thing. I like to experiment trying things different ways and the go with what feels best. It is fun to try new things also! 🙂

@jfo3000

Жыл бұрын

@Bill Hall Guitarist Thanks Bill for the words of advice! Incidently, I played along with Minds's Eye today after watching your video, loads of fun!

@wth522

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! One of my all time favorites! 🙂

Thanks for that Bill i feel nylon strings make a difference too Can u tell me what effects you use? my guess would be a slight delay and or reverb and maybe a little or lot of Compression? Ilove that sound u have

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Trevor! I use a little reverb from the amp. I do not use any sort of compression pedal or effect. I do use an eq pedal to boost the mids a bit and that is pretty much it. Thanks again!

Do you think it matters a lot on how you hold the pick to determine how fast you can play? I'm more of an arm picker instead of a wrist picker too, I just can't figure out how to keep it all in the wrist at fast tempos.

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Randy! I think it matters in as much that you want to have a way of holding the pick that is comfortable and that you can feel like you have control of it when picking. I noticed if I hold the pick back more towards my hand ...so another words if it is more on the side of my finger and actually a little more towards the thumb joint when I'm holding it it tends to work better with an elbow technique for me. I definitely think it matters to an extent how you hold it so you might want to experiment trying different ways of holding the pick to see if it gives you any more control. If you can tremelo the note comfortably with an elbow technique using your arm then I would go ahead and see how far you can take that and not worry if it's your wrist or your arm because I'm not sure that that matters as much... there is a lot of great players that pick with their wrist and a lot of great players pick with their arm. I use my wrist when I play slow and I just kind of blend the techniques when I'm playing and I don't really think about it I just let whatever motion happen naturally and I don't try to force it. I hope that helps and I wish you a lot of luck with your playing! ☺️ ☺️

@RandyBakkelund

3 жыл бұрын

@@wth522 Thanks Bill!

Hi Bill! What types of chords and scales are you playing in the end of the video :)?

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Hello, Martin! I am playing G minor to A7 and I am playing the D harmonic minor scale over it. Thanks so much for watching!

When you alternate pick fast, you hit the strings hard or soft? thanks!

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

I like to do it both ways depending on the phrase and dynamics I want. I would say on most fast things I hit the string in the middle between hard and soft. Thanks for watching!

Back in the late 60's I lived in Canton and played drums for a man named Bill Hall. You don't look old enuff to be him,but do you know him?

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

Hello! I am a bit younger...I was born in 1967. I never knew a Drummer named Bill Hall. I have met a couple other people named Bill Hall though.

@billstanley6885

2 жыл бұрын

@@wth522 Hi Bill, I was the drummer Bill Hall played the guitar and sang. I was told that he even wrote a song for Laretta Lynn. Have been looking for him for many years.

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

@@billstanley6885 oh…sorry, I read I wrong. I am not familiar with a guitar player named Bill Hall either. Good luck in your search to find him!

My Problem is..I can really pick fast and clean Gilbert like Scale runs and so on...but for me it is really hard to pick in upper Midtempo...when I try practicing with a Metronome..I can get faster and faster, but at a certain point I hit a Firewall...and I can not play faster....I have do do a quite big jump in bpm (getting faster)...then it becomes clean again...this frustrates me for years

@wth522

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! I think that is a common problem for a lot of players I have talked to about getting their picking down. For me...I use a bit of a different motion mechanic when I am picking at medium speeds than at fast speeds and I just blend them together and switch between them. Thanks so much for watching and good luck in your playing! 🙂🤘

Pick hand is the gas, fret hand is the steering...

Subscribed.. Will check out more

@wth522

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! 🙂

Picking Blinder.