Yes thanks for sharing excellent work I will try it but for some reason when I play it does not sound the same I think I have the picking wrong.
I use a very light touch. I actually try to touch the strings as little as I can, as if it's all legato, only the pick is there to make the notes sing.
As I see it, this is also a part of ergonomics. What is the least amount of force needed to produce the sound you want? The sound being the other element, if you want a aggressive attack - you've gotta dig in there.
Fortunatly I want the sound of a light attack, that will save my arms from so much tension. nothing wrong with hard attack, I like that too for the heavy stuff.
My choice is toward light picks. This helps especially for string skipping as it increase the speed and accuracy.
In my case it does because if I use a thicker pick, lets say 1,5mm or 2mm, the attack on the string I skip to is way over the top.
I try to avoid this because I want my attack to be the same as when I hybrid pick - I try to be as light as possible when I hybrid pick so therefore I need a
light pick to match the attack. I'm a former dunlop "pitch black" addict (ah come on, we all know about the pitch black mystery, it's a tortex jazz III. There I said it.)
But when I went all extended range guitar (ERG) (7-string+) the tortex jazz III became way too small for the heavier strings. I started using the normal tortex (?) but when
I discovered the T3 version, Dunlop tortex T3, everything felt right. I tried various gauges and the 0,5mm was just all over the place. I tried the orange one 0,60mm and I've used it ever since. I think Paul Gilbert is using them too, so there's a reference.
The advantage, as I see it, with using light picks is speed. It's less material to get caught up in the strings and you have to use less force to produce a note.
Especially when using 8-strings this is a no brainer to me because the lighter picks have a brighter attack, so when I play leads I go superlight in the attack, trying to produce a smooth sound ala Allan Holdsworth (1mm nylon pick btw, Brett Grased also use this pick).
One thing I really like about this is that the organge tortex T3 just make so much sense on an 8-string. When I enter the lower B or 0.80 drop-e string the attack becomes brighter which really fits how I want the low strings to sound like. A thick pick does not sound good to me on low tunings because it's too warm and round, when I dig in on heavy riffs I want tight teethy grain-bite
I can pick way lighter when digging in too because the tone is there. Playing fast riffs rocks using the 0.60mm T3 by dunlop. try it. You might like it! but be warned - you also may not.
This is a nice article which touches upon Brett Garsed's technique
iBreatheMusic.com - Why Not Do Both? (Legato Pt.2 and more...) by Eric Vandenberg
I like the warm thicker sound for a more clean jazzy bebop from the purple tortex T3 (around 1mm?) but I don't like that it's all stiff, even though Guthrie Govan embrace the importance of a pick that does not "give" or bends, because then you will have more control. Well I love Guthrie Govan but I also love a light attack and a style more in the ballpark of Allan and Brett. But hey, why not do both?
I hope this surrounds your question, lol
