This Should Not Be Possible: Displacement Fours

A few posts back we were looking at how you can simplify complicated phrases with pickstroke displacement. Here's another example of that. In this example I'm doing descending fours — the version that starts on a downstroke — with a really simple Zakk Wylde-type picking motion that should definitely not be able to play this line. Check out how cool this is. I'm using a 3nps fingering, so technically the first four notes of the line should be split up between the first string and the second string. But you if watch in slow motion, you'll see the first four pickstrokes are all on the first string, even though I'm only fretting *three notes* on that string. The fourth note is not picked — it only sounds like it's picked, because the pick is plucking a muted note on the top string. This fauxly-picked note is what @jakeestner hilariously described to as "two kids in a trenchoat" pretending to be adults. The end result is that really aggressive "picking all the notes" type sound but without the hassle. The rest of the line isn't perfect, but I still think it sounds really effing cool. I spent maybe ten minutes on this and I'm sure I could get this more memorized by going over the displaced notes a bunch more times. If you want to do fours on a downstroke, and you have a Zakk-type (or other USX) motion, this has gotta be one of the easiest and most gratifying ways to do it. And yes it works with a clean tone too.

Видео This Should Not Be Possible: Displacement Fours канала Troy Grady