Paul Mehling Teaches Basic Right Hand Technique and a Blast

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Paul Mehling has developed a powerful series of exercises and practice regimens that will help all plectrum (flatpick) guitarists play with greater strength, speed, expressiveness and authority.

In this segment from his full-length DVD, Mehling gives players of all levels some eye-opening insight into getting great tone using his impeccable technique.

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Howto & Style

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• Paul
• Mehling
• gypsy
• jazz
• guitar
• acoustic
• homespun
• right
• hand
• workout

[ptalbany]

I've played this way for years and was always told it was wrong you were to move the whole arm to keep good timing

feels good after all these years to have at least one person tell me I'm doing it right lol

[homespuntapes]

Paul Mehling comes from a Gypsy Jazz style that uses a different style of strumming than conventional pop and folk styles. He's an amazing player with great chops and understanding of his genre.

[14thetruth]

If that is the way Mr.Mehling believs is a good technique - good for him. You have the option of not using his technique.

Hey, Where is your Tape on this technique???? Additionally I see warmth and kindness in Mr. Mehlings presentation.

I hope you will post a tape also and be kind and sharing such as his tape is.

[cosmojh]

EVERYONE picks a little differently from one another, from Steve Morse, Pat Metheny, Al Dimeola to Doc Watson. They are adhere however to that wrist-flicking motion described here. But the style of music you play also demands little tweaks in how you position your hand. If you're playing in front of a full-blast amplifier you better get a handle on muting the strings. Or you might want a palm-muted tone for certain passages. It's a long strange, trip of techniques.

[pickinstone]

@ptalbany I know it's late, but Jimmy Bruno uses a variation of this technique. Howard Alden is one of the truest practitioners of this free wrist playing. I use a hybrid method of both camps and feel like I great a truer sound with this method. it's harder with the thicker gauge you string your guitar with (I play with 13s). The best par of this style of plectrum playing lies in it's versatility. You can comp and play single lines with the same techniques. Gypsy players must have known this.

[johnnyjackpot]

Thanks for this!

[oyecarnal]

@Rexicano PS. i just looked your videos... many classical players!!! and of course many great ones.Paco de Lucia,Julian Bream,Tmmy emmanuel among others.... come on... be open!

[oyecarnal]

@Rexicano all classical players play music written hundreds of years ago note for note.i guess they are also artistically dead...! and look.i don't wanna wax philosophic,put art and creativity has lots of forms. anyway,listen to Lagrene (if you want) and if you find that he is a "dead in the water" guitarist... then i guess i have nothing else to say.

[oyecarnal]

@oyecarnal you said that you don't know the players! if you are someone that "picks dozens of great players from all styles" then you are open to something new. i would suggest you watching some videos of Bireli Lagrene.and if you don't like the acoustic,try some of those with his archtop. it's just unfair to judge mucisians this way... you can't say for example that stevie ray vaughan is a artistically dead just because jimmy hendrix existed before him!!! and think about classical players too!

[oyecarnal]

@Rexicano of course you know nothing. and of course "you don't know of all those players." but maybe...just maybe,if you like guitar you should learn them,listen to some of their music and think over... approaching guitar playing with a more traditional way doesn't mean that you are not creative! yes,Django was the beggining of a guitaristic style,but music didn't end there! look,i may sound agressive,but the truth is that i was really annoyed from what you wrote on your first comment....

[Rexicano]

@oyecarnal

Save the condescending "my froend" for someone else.

I don't know of all those players but for those guitarists, and there are PLENTY of them, who buy the same guitar, copy his pieces note for note and try as much as possible to copy Django in every way possible...then yes: dead in the water.

But go on thinking I know nothing. Try looking thru my selections...I guess I just picked dozens of great players from all styles because I know nothing. Right.

[oyecarnal]

@Rexicano look my friend,what you say is an almost nicely stated opinion.but stop for a little second and thing who you actually call "artistically dead." guitarist like Bireli Lagrene,Josco Stefan,Angelo Debarre or even Frank Vignola...artistically dead??? and you say that the result of their playing is very sad...??? because if you say that... either you know simply nothing about guitar,or you are so good... and i really mean sooo good,that you can play equaly or even better than them!!!

[Rexicano]

@sa7sul

Picasso said it was fine to copy...for a while...

but these Django copyists try to play every note just the same and just stay in this rut forever.

Artistically it's dead. But they don't want to be artists they want to be paint by number painters and the result; very sad.

I'd hate to see the whole world acting like this...it's like the Stepford Guitarists.

Music is evolving OR it's standing still.