Andy Wood Guitar Lesson - Cross Picking - ShapeShifter

[@paulzeman7684]

This is well worth watching several times over,. and then watch it a few more times.

[@demolitionwilliams7419]

Yessssss I've been looking for this! And now the boring part: hours and days and weeks of practicing it

[@mackenlyparmelee5440]

@@marcos_c_m it's called longsuffering

[@paulzeman7684]

I agree, but I would also suggest that it can be entertaining and not boring... :)

[@Datanditto]

If it feels boring youve got the wrong frame of mind.

[@OU812Eddie]

Good speaker...makes you want to listen to what he says.

[@paulzeman7684]

Andy is among my favorite teachers.

[@ferullan9023]

2:20 'Summer has come and passed...'

[@andrewwinter3212]

That section at 4:50 is more than just changing accents, it’s actually changing the pattern slightly. That tripped me up until I saw the order of strings changes.

[@jubnx2781]

Man Andy wood is soooooo good

[@MrMetalhorse]

How long exactly did it take Andy to master this? I have been doing it for a couple of weeks and I can do it sort of ok but not as fast

he said in an interview, that he was doing that for several years in his early days, on a Mandolin, trying to do Bela Fleck Banjo patterns. So it's something he has "always" been working on.

[@bubba4001]

Great playing Andy and thank you. Great tone.

[@phillippoole8452]

Is there any real difference between cross picking, alternate picking and flat picking or just different terms for the same thing?

[@vincentbal335]

it's a bit confusing, but flatpicking refers to just using a guitar pick as opposed to playing fingerstyle or thumb-picked guitar. Alternate picking is any repeated up-and down picking motion and covers a variety of motions and styles. Crosspicking is one of those styles- in crosspicking has a curved picking trajectory, which means the pick ends up escaping from the strings after every pickstroke, as opposed to being stuck in between two strings. It's often used for one-note-per-string patterns like the one Andy is showing here. Like with every guitar technique there are multiple ways to accomplish the curved motion. At least this is how I understand it. Troy Grady has some nice videos on understanding crosspicking. Hope it helps!

[@snellyd]

Great vid

[@johnnewman3221]

how long did it take for you to build up speed

[@FelipeHamachi]

I wish I had discovered country picking when I was 13. It's a little painful to learn these things after 30

[@Bmxmusikian]

Learning this at 40

[@jubnx2781]

Learning this at 16, still painful. I guess the only difference is I have a lot of time since I don’t have that many responsibilities yk. I have time to just watch KZbin and play guitar

[@MarkLambertMusic]

@@jubnx2781 Also good to hear of a younger person using their time on a worthwhile pursuit. Keep at it and tear up that guitar.

[@michaelcameron2292]

Would this be easier fingerpicked?

[@mysterybotts]

Yes but if you like using a pick or have many single note lines your doing it might be better to do this. Ideally we’d be able to do both.

[@shironbenyamini2798]

This should not be humanly possible. How is he doing this???

[@scottwaszak698]

Not that big of a deal. If I work on that, I can easily see myself mastering it in about 17 years...

[@winstonsmith8240]

You're a fast learner then. I was praying for reincarnation.

[@scottwaszak698]

@@winstonsmith8240 lol!

[@eze698]

[@Bmxmusikian]

I really need to get this down..

[@LoganAddisMusic]

Looks like Andy is wearing one of those hats with the hair built in 😆

[@IamtheActionman]

Serious amount of hours spent practicing to get to that speed

[@castleanthrax1833]

When you were doing it slowly you were alternating but as you sped up you went down, down, up etc. I could be wrong but I don't think so. P. S I'm a big fan. Love your work.

[@KazBodnar]

HOW

[@Guitarwizardjoinme]

so much easier to just hybrid pick that pattern AlA Danny Gatton.

[@shreddingnerd5529]

Guitarwizard on keyboard it’s even easier, do that

[@50kcrispyguy17]

Don't preach just play dude

[@lairdey]

Give instruction without giving instruction.

[@vanguard4065]

alternate picking is a waste of time

[@jubnx2781]

What are you supposed to do then. Look at the crazy shredding he does at the end. You can’t do that with hybrid picking and what not

[@trentwaterman7049]

living is a waste of time