When the LOUDEST BLUEGRASS player at the jam is the GYPSY!

[stratonut]

that air volume knob at the end is getting a little scratchy

[CompleteProducer]

This will be one of the most “0.25 speeded” videos on YouTube. Great job!

[CalebePriester]

Troy, your playing is awesome! Your chops are god tier, man! I have so much respect for you because you did share your knowledge and that's is priceless, you know? You don't know me, but through your channel you made me become a better player technique wise because you explained in depth guitar picking mechanics. I can just hope to practice enough and become as good as you. I still don't know how to play so many different styles like you do, but I hope one day I will.

There are so many different ways to play the same lick on the guitar, it's really crazy. I'm really enjoying the guitar as an instrument now because, unlike the piano, we can play the same lick in so many different ways. Only God knows how many ways there are to play the same lick. You can use two notes per string, three notes per string, uneven number of notes per string, alternate pick everything, mix sweeping with alternate picking, and so on. There are so many shapes! It's nuts!

[areurdytoparty]

It's probably going to end up taking me a year to learn this 10 second melody

[chucksaeger]

I was studying the tab before starting the video and thinking “I can play that” then I started the video and holy **** Batman!

[kentl]

No surprise the gypsy player is the loudest ))
Huge heavy picks, aggressive downstrokes and habitually having aggressive pick attack

[heberildo]

do you have methods to fix pinky collapse?

[jeffrey.a.hanson]

I feel like you have a lot more to explore with modern day pickers like Tim Henson to really grow this channel. A live analysis of you and Tim watching back own playing would be priceless.

My assumption is the ‘Magnet Production’ has been top priority to get to backers and then to market, but I still see a lot of value in this channel and the directions it could go in.

[johnnylayton]

With respect to palm muting, all of us who have at least dabbled in bowed stringed instruments (myself w/mostly doublebass & cello) understand that palm muting for even electric guitar often inhibits adjacent string sympathetic vibrations hence a richer, more reverby sound especially through amplification that itself possesses no internal electronic e.g. spring reverb capability.

So for me the gypsy style of playing makes GREAT sense in striving for picking accuracy while permitting as much sypathetic string vibration as possible not just as an intonation check but also for a more "luscious" sound.

Frankly w/o this phenomenon for sound in Earth's atmosphere there would have never been a JS Bach IMHO