Really cool Greg Howe lesson in Guitar Player

distressed_romeo · 08-01-2007, 02:55 PM

Guitar Player - Hammer Time!

I'm going to have fun with this!

On a related note, has anyone else pretty much stopped buying GP since they started putting 80% of each issue on the website for free?

distressed_romeo · 08-01-2007, 05:53 PM

Here's Greg performing 'A Delicacy' for those who are curious after reading that lesson...

kmanick · 08-01-2007, 09:00 PM

Nice!
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distressed_romeo · 08-20-2007, 12:29 AM

UPDATE: This lesson has inspired sooooo many new ideas since I went through it. I've even started to incorporate the middle finger of the picking hand into my playing more (I've always used it a little bit, but never really developed it).

Jongpil Yun · 08-20-2007, 03:54 AM

I hate to be an ass, but especially today, shouldn't most of what he's doing that's supposedly special be common sense?

(Especially) after the advent of two handed tapping, using your left hand to open on a new string in a legato manner just makes sense. The same goes for hybrid picking for anyone who has ever had any experience with classical guitar, at all.

Durero · 08-20-2007, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

Here's Greg performing 'A Delicacy' for those who are curious after reading that lesson...

Anyone know anything about the string damper he flipped off at the beginning of the vid when he switched from distortion to clean?

distressed_romeo · 08-20-2007, 11:11 AM

Apparently Greg's used a hair-tie as a dampener ever since Jason Becker showed him how to use one to clean up tricky parts while recording when he produced the second Howe II album. It's ended up being an integral part of his approach, as a lot of the legato and tapping techniques he uses now require the dampener to get them really clean.

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I hate to be an ass, but especially today, shouldn't most of what he's doing that's supposedly special be common sense?

(Especially) after the advent of two handed tapping, using your left hand to open on a new string in a legato manner just makes sense. The same goes for hybrid picking for anyone who has ever had any experience with classical guitar, at all.

Usually yes, but it's amazing how many people still haven't picked up on this stuff. I don't think Greg's really claiming what he's doing is particularly revolutionary (he almost always mentions Firkins, Garsed and Kotzen as the guys he picked up the hybrid picking approach from when it comes up in interviews); it's just a way of making certain licks sound a lot more fluid.
I've always changed strings with hammer-ons, almost since I started playing, just because, like you said, it seemed like common sense, but Greg often comes up with some new ways of using it to get around the fretboard that I probably wouldn't have thought of. It's just little bits of technical sleight-of-hand that I find really useful.
Scott Mishoe has a lot of really amazing ideas in this vein as well, but he seems to have dropped off the face of the earth recently.

MetalSir · 08-21-2007, 01:10 PM

Great man..

i love this thing (is a mine transcription from an his esercise during the ses in russia):

you can invert the pattner and make one passage on the A string and 2 passage on the highE string

distressed_romeo · 08-21-2007, 02:20 PM

Cool lick.

MetalSir · 08-21-2007, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by distressed_romeo

Cool lick.

i don't know if you have ever seen his workshop in russia 2004.. but.. he really do it in a so fast way that make me mad

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