Brad Paisley's Nervous Breakdown

I´d do it this way

3p0-----0--------------------------------
------6----3p0-----0---------------------
-----------------5-----3p0-----0--------------------- 5--3
-----------------------------5----3p0----0--------
----------------------------------------5----------5s7---x
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Thats my general approach to scales and tricks.
To me that´s easier, using thumbpick and fingers.... Havent really played the whole song, just some nice tricks to dabble with when warming up, or noodling around.




Baard

 

Baard's way is the way I do it.. sounds right to me.. but I've heard it done your way before too, so who knows..

Mike

 

baard is right

i've seen brad do that lick in person (i was backstage at a cancer benefit a few years ago with him).........he told me that the secret to his really fast pull off licks is to keep your fingers VERY LOW..... i had a bad habit of picking my fingers up too high when doing a pull off.... its common sense to me now but think about it : are ya'll unknowingly picking your fingers up a little bit high on a pulloff??? just making a small change can really speed them up! just a suggestion

twang on,
jerry

 

So Benderking, was he playing it with his pick and middle finger or was he flatpicking the whole thing? There's a major debate raging in my brain right now about his picking style, fueled by some fellow posters. I've never seen him live, but I can't imagine trying to flatpick nervous breakdown when it is such a natural hybrid picker of a tune.

Mike

 

I've never seen him live but I have him on video from when he was on Austin City Limits and he is clearly hybrid picking that section. He clearly hybrid picks a lot in that particular performance. I've watched it many times.

 

yup

yea, its hybrid

and for future reference:
i saw someone a while back post something about brad using a "b bender".... technically no... he uses a "g bender"... its one of the joe glaser built benders. Also, brad plays a MULTITUDE of pickups. He told me he liked the older 7.25 fender necks and also the modern C 9.5 necks. Im not sure what he gigs with all the time but when i saw him he had a "dr. z" amp.

twang on,
jerry

 

Thanks for the reinforcements, guys. I was sure he was a hybrid picker. When I was figuring out his licks I used to wonder why he didn't just use a thumbpick, since they sounded like almost purely pick and finger lines. His style reminds me of bluegrass dobro players, with the constant two finger action and the particular way he uses open strings.