Cory Wong: How I Developed My Strumming Technique | Pick Hand Exercises - video Dailymotion

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When composing and arranging music, Cory Wong likes to think as an orchestrator. As the guitarist, he tries to represent just about everything that’s in the arrangement — the drum syncopations, horn parts, keyboards, and everything else besides.

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00:00hey what's up this is Cory Wong this is part two of the right stuff working on

00:09the right hand because to me that's where the groove is the right hand is

00:14the timekeeper and I've spent a lot of time working on my right hand technique

00:20I've spent a lot of time practicing exercises and I want to share some of

00:24those with you now one of the interesting things that I did to really develop my

00:29right hand technique was nothing to do with how am I holding my pick what is

00:35my wrist motion all of that I tried that I actually had teachers in college tell

00:40me your technique is terrible you should hold your pick this way you should pick

00:44that way and then I realized everybody's mechanics are different

00:48everybody's different in what works best for them and what's most effortless so I

00:52do not necessarily swear by the way that I hold my pick or the way that my wrist

00:56moves the things that I swear by is how I control it and the exercises that I use

01:01to get there now another unorthodox thing that I did is I took a lot of my

01:05marching band drumline exercises and I adapted them to guitar because I would

01:10practice all these things where it was right left right right left right left left and I

01:14practice all these gritting exercises on shifting accents and that sort of thing and

01:18I realized that might be something that could enhance the way that my right hand

01:25picking technique is so I want to continue on the last column where I talked about

01:31the right hand and the steady motor motion of the right hand the steady 16ths if you

01:37missed out on that column the first portion of it and what we're gonna base

01:41everything off of here is just a steady flow of sixteenth notes in your right

01:44hand okay that's one measure of 16th notes and it's all chucks and we talked

01:53before there's three different options the way that I see it you can either play a

01:57note you can play a chuck or you can play nothing you just let your hand go by

02:03okay and in this exercise in the in the first exercise it's a gritting

02:08exercise to get control over your right hand and what we're gonna do is we're gonna shift

02:13accents around the 16th notes okay we're gonna start by accenting the downbeat for

02:19one measure and then we're gonna accent the e for one measure we're gonna accent the and

02:25then we're going to accent the uh so we're shifting the accents around the grid like this

02:31little crude on the playing side if I have a metronome with it helps a lot but I'm

02:48trying to really accent these to show you then what I like to do with that is I

02:52play through one time like that and then I go two beats each

03:05then I go one beat each one and the whole exercise together is like this

03:12so I shifted the accents a full measure each on the down e and uh two beats each of the down e and uh

03:42and then one beat each on the down e and uh hope that makes sense now the next thing that I do is

03:49I bring in a little more left hand control to get them working together instead of playing an accent

03:54I'll just play a chord or a note in this case uh I'll play an e7 just for fun okay same exact

04:03exercise except I'm not accenting with my right hand I'm pressing down with my left hand in place

04:09exact same thing just now utilizing the left and right hand together so what that does is it really

04:37gets your mind in control over when to accent something with your right hand or when to press

04:44down with your left hand so what this does is it helps utilize control of your left and right hand

04:50together so when I play things like this I really have the control

04:53all of a sudden that's a lot easier to do because I've learned the control in my left and right hands

05:18together really utilizing these sort of techniques so I want you to take this sort of gridding exercise

05:24try it with triplets try it with different patterns use your imagination come up with different things

05:30with it and I really really believe that it will help gain control in your playing and it will also

05:37really help with your accuracy okay because a lot of the way that we play in time and a lot of our groove

05:43has to do with the the mind and body connection and being able to control when you do these things

05:51really starts to unify those things and getting it under your hands is also very important so practice

05:57it with a click or with a drum machine something to make sure that you stay in time a little bit

06:02better than I did on these last couple exercises but I promise you this sort of thing will be something

06:08that takes your technique to the next level hope that helps we'll see you next time peace

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