Recent content by Tweety Leaf

No, not really. I listen a lot of Hard rock, post rock and some proge. Bands like Guns and Roses, Maybeshewill / Fair to Midland and Tool. Been really busy with my studies lately but I've been experimenting with the thumb playing, so far not a lot of success (not a lot of effort either to be...

Thats great advice and collection of tips to start learning. I feel that the thumb approach will suit me best. Now I just have to bear with the "pain" as i don't normally play with fingers :D There must be hundreds of these slapping posts here, but I feel its kinda understandable as peoples...

According to GHS those balanced tension are on mellow side (otherwise they are very, very interesting strings). EBS makes roundwound long scale stainless steel strings and they are bright strings suitable for metal/heavy rock/hard rock. I would not use them for blues or pop tho. I am really...

I dont know how, but I have not been aware of this technique at all, maybe coz its not used much or at all in hard rock/heavy. Really big thank you for this! Now to training!

Hello! I've been playing since '99 and have never grasped the "just hit the strings with your thumb" concept. I am a fairly decent player with good left-hand technique, and I generally use a pick. I play hard rock/alt rock style. I have attempted to learn slapping from various sources, but it...