Trying to incorporate fingers into your playing is something that needs time and constant work, and one of the main problems to solve is the articulation of ring and little fingers. He started with pick and middle finger and soon after he incorporated ring and little finger for an arpeggio type of approach (as shown in FIG 5).
The simplest way to think of it is that whatever strings the pick plays, the fingers play the adjacent strings. In the video Brett explains that this technique come about naturally, it hadn’t been something that he consciously developed. This month’s feature will concentrate mainly on Brett’s picking hand, taking you step by step through a series of exercises that aim to develop your hybrid picking dexterity. His style is a combination of hybrid picking for super-clean arpeggios, legato technique often used in combination of odd groupings (5, 7, 9, etc), slide playing, and a distinctive approach to playing ‘outside’. He also has produced an instructional DVD and a solo album, released in 2002. After relocating to LA for a period, Brett now has a long list of recordings and collaborations with some of the most important fusion players on the planet, including Frank Gambale, Shawn Lane and T.J. This eventually led him to the music of Allan Holdsworth, which in turn exposed him to more fusion oriented artists such as Larry Carlton and Scott Henderson.Įventually, Brett’s professional career took off (finally giving up his job as a licensed plumber!) performing and recording with Australian superstar John Farnham. In later years he expanded his influences to more diverse styles such as Leo Kottke, Rory Gallagher and Joe Walsh (his main inspirations for slide guitar) and Edward Van Halen.Īfter taking classical guitar lessons for about a year he started to expand his right-hand hybrid picking technique, and soon after he started to blend this approach with the legato technique of the fretting hand.
At that time his main influences were rock players such as Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour and Jimi Hendrix. Brett is not only a guitar virtuoso but he’s also a very generous person who’s happy to share his considerable experience and understanding with the audience (to see him in action with myself and the house band at the clinic, check out on the video page).īrett was born in a small Australian town called Victoria, and began playing guitar at age 12 after hearing Deep Purple’ ‘Speed King’. In March of this year I had to pleasure to sit down and have a chat with one of the most influential fusion guitarists of the last two decades Brett Garsed. In the first of a three-parter, Dario Cortese meets up with Australian guitar virtuoso Brett Garsed for hybrid picking explanation…
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