Chelsea Constable Is No Joke! (Racer X Content)

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I've been following her for a while and she can do just about any style. What an awesome player and a killer vibrato!! I love her take on this classic shred tune.

 
Wow :rock:
Never heard that track before.
That girl just tears it up!!
 
:rock: Been watching her for a while. Chelsea has taught me a solo or two, she has good videos on Randy solos. Prodigy imo and so is her younger sister.

And she's a Bray Amps endorser. Les Paul Customs thru Bray amps = tone.
 
Yeah, that chick is a solid player. It's not the most difficult Paul Gilbert song, but she plays it with aplomb. I can't play Paul Gilbert note-for-note without using economy picking, but she seems to do well with strict alternate picking. I've been working on Technical Difficulties for a while, so it would be cool if she did a video on that one.
 
My hats off to anyone who can play this (I certainly can't), but since seeing literally a million guitar players do very accurate renditions of this, including a pretty good job by an 8 year old Japanese girl, I'm kinda over it :D :



She does a pretty good Guthrie too for 8 years old:



Steve
 
SavageRiffer":g9ww10tm said:
Yeah, that chick is a solid player. It's not the most difficult Paul Gilbert song, but she plays it with aplomb. I can't play Paul Gilbert note-for-note without using economy picking, but she seems to do well with strict alternate picking. I've been working on Technical Difficulties for a while, so it would be cool if she did a video on that one.
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Yup, her right hand is soooo damn efficient.

I learned using economy picking, my brain kept thinking no way would it ever be correct to jump over a string just to pluck it in the opposite direction. Intuitively it seemed inefficient. I mean, your pick was right there ready to pluck the string but instead you jump over it and pluck the other way. Just seemed wrong. But that one jump-over-then-pluck-in-opposite-direction often sets you up so the following notes just flow better. I try to practice alternate every day but I always seem to resort back to old habits when things get fast/difficult. It's still not natural for me.
 
Check out Paul Gilbert's videos for specific instructions on this ^^^ it works !
 
SpiderWars":1k47v4aw said:
SavageRiffer":1k47v4aw said:
Yeah, that chick is a solid player. It's not the most difficult Paul Gilbert song, but she plays it with aplomb. I can't play Paul Gilbert note-for-note without using economy picking, but she seems to do well with strict alternate picking. I've been working on Technical Difficulties for a while, so it would be cool if she did a video on that one.
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Yup, her right hand is soooo damn efficient.

I learned using economy picking, my brain kept thinking no way would it ever be correct to jump over a string just to pluck it in the opposite direction. Intuitively it seemed inefficient. I mean, your pick was right there ready to pluck the string but instead you jump over it and pluck the other way. Just seemed wrong. But that one jump-over-then-pluck-in-opposite-direction often sets you up so the following notes just flow better. I try to practice alternate every day but I always seem to resort back to old habits when things get fast/difficult. It's still not natural for me.
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I use pickslanting that I learned from Troy Grady. Some things just have to be alternate picked. Technical Difficulties is one of those songs, but I got so desperate wanting to be able to play it, I finally got a feel for it using economy picking. You can't get away with the kinds of things you can do playing heavy metal rhythms with that song. Even still, economy picking has a different tempo and feel. Hats off to anyone who can play that song alternate picked.
 
Sometimes just STARTING a phrase with an upstoke is enough, it's counter intuative sometimes, but it works well in addition to pick slanting. ESPECIALLY if you KNOW that you're going to string skip or move to the next string
 
paulyc":ww1fkcdv said:
Sometimes just STARTING a phrase with an upstoke is enough, it's counter intuative sometimes, but it works well in addition to pick slanting. ESPECIALLY if you KNOW that you're going to string skip or move to the next string
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That's very common with economy pickers. Guys like Rick Graham do that a lot.
 
I learned using pick slanting (not intentionally, just felt more natural) and that's part of my problem. Traversing strings upward with alternate picking and downward pick slanting doesn't work very well. Troy's video on the Crossroads diminished lick illustrates this. But upward pick slanting feels very unnatural for me.

paulyc, I think I am practicing what Paul suggests or maybe I'm going by an old video (there was a lot of pink in this video lol). Just doing that simple 4-note drill, I can't do it fast. If I do alternate picking drills for a couple of hours, it gets a tiny bit better. Next morning, square one again. I agree on starting a phrase with an upstroke sometimes making the whole phrase much easier.
 
That's the video, run that 4 note sequence over and over and exaggerate the motion when you jump strings like he shows, do it slow until you can burn. It worked for me.
 
Cool stuff. Does she write any original music in the same vein?
 
psychodave":20629w2m said:
Cool stuff. Does she write any original music in the same vein?
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I am not 100% sure. All I know is she is a monster player that can convincingly play a lot of different styles. I've heard her play blues, rock, bluegrass, metal, etc.
 
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