what can i improve?

davidjazzfan

https://youtube.com/shorts/fAD_ct1LkBA?si=2THGLRyMQkdXRNuq

davidjazzfan

should my pick go deeper when playing lower strings how can i make them sound like higher ones?

pdg

Hard to say, but maybe you should raise your forearm (pivot up from your elbow) as you move from the 1st string up to the 6th string. Your wrist will come down harder on the bass strings

frostymitten

play closer to the bridge, season to taste

davidjazzfan

https://youtube.com/shorts/PtiGkzb2YkM?si=AY6JNidWC5Aj4gJy

I have a problem with weak tone how can i get stronger attack and still have somewhat consistent tone?

davidjazzfan

i have bought cheap gipsy jazz guitar that i love

voutoreenie

Sounds really nice, technique looks good -- maybe just turn down the backing track a bit? ;)

I kid. Kind of. But seriously, try shortening up your attack so the pick strokes are a bit more compact. That was the advice I received a few years back when asking similar questions and it really helped. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same for all of us so try different picks/strings/bridges/etc. Either way, welcome to the madness and glad to hear you're loving the new axe!

davidjazzfan

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/124850#Comment_124850

Thank you for the advice!

Buco

David, your tone and technique both look and sound fine to me. Maybe try using more of the weight of the wrist, sort of try letting the wrist drop down on the string, letting the gravity do the work. If you're after a specific tone then find a player you like and copy their hand position, pick attack etc, from the videos. It's really all about experimenting.

pdg

The weights of people's hands, wrists, and arms vary tremendously from one person to another. (In addition to the weight of the wrist, the arm weight is apparently another factor, according to Antoine Boyer and maybe others.)

So, e.g., what may work for a stocky person may not produce the same result for a slender person.

voutoreenie

So, e.g., what may work for a stocky person may not produce the same result for a slender person.

@pdg Yeah, this is what took me a really long time to recognize, understand and ultimately figure out how to compensate for...I'm tall (6'4), overweight (230-240) plus wingspan like I'm the missing link (6'7.5"-6'8). And funny you mention Antoine because as I've posted about before (if not ad nauseam by now), his advice after observing my technique specifically may have helped me the most with this. Because I do think some of my early struggles stemmed from watching and emulating technique from players who clearly share nothing with me in terms of physical dimensions lmao