Tom Quayle demonstrating his legato technique

GuyBoden

The amazing Tom Quayle demonstrating and explaining his incredible Legato technique.

stratman3142

A lot of legato sounds like it's floating over the beat. But his rhythmic precision is amazing.
 

LordBucketHead

Enjoyable video. Thanks for sharing.

wizbit81

stratman3142 said:

A lot of legato sounds like it's floating over the beat. But his rhythmic precision is amazing.
 

He has worked on that......a LOT, right down to 64th notes. It's insane that precision really.

Winny_Pooh

Cheers for sharing, genuinely interesting.

CarpeDiem

Really helpful. Thanks for sharing.

GuyBoden

stratman3142 said:

A lot of legato sounds like it's floating over the beat. But his rhythmic precision is amazing.
 

Yes, Tom Quayle's precision timing with Legato is unbelievable, personally, apart from timing, the other problem I have with my Legato is the higher volume of the picked note compared with non-picked notes. I started to use all fingers for picking to try and compensate for these discrepancies in note volume. Using a pick was a complete failure for me.

stratman3142

I strive to improve my legato, especially making it sound rhythmically precise. And also creating interesting lines that are not just running up and down a sequence.

I'm not sure of the balance between a 'pull-off' technique and a 'hammers' technique when descending.

I know that Allan Holdsworth and Marshall Harrison are proponents of the 'hammers only' approach.

I can't be sure, but it appears that Tom Quayle, Brett Garsed, Allen Hinds etc might be doing a mixture of a 'pull-offs' and a 'hammers' technique when descending.

There's also the issue of leaving fingers 'planted' (or not) on the fretboard, when playing notes with other fingers.

Perhaps we need the equivalent of Troy Grady; to do for legato, what he did for picking

Which reminds me that Rick Graham did a neat demonstration of the 'hammers only' approach a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgG73WnXxnE

Evo

stratman3142 said:

There's also the issue of leaving fingers 'planted' (or not) on the fretboard, when playing notes with other fingers

Tom did a video on this very subject for those interested in checking it out…

https://youtu.be/2fcnpwZSXIA

guitarmangler

Oh, that’s cool. I didn’t know he used his middle finger to play the string when doing legato. I’ll try that out today. Thanks for the video
link op.

Nerine

guitarmangler said:

Oh, that’s cool. I didn’t know he used his middle finger to play the string when doing legato. I’ll try that out today. Thanks for the video
link op.

I tried it earlier. It was pretty tricky to get it to sound smooth. Therefore I gave up.  

stratman3142

Nerine said:

guitarmangler said:

Oh, that’s cool. I didn’t know he used his middle finger to play the string when doing legato. I’ll try that out today. Thanks for the video
link op.

I tried it earlier. It was pretty tricky to get it to sound smooth. Therefore I gave up.  

Yes very tricky.

...And Brett Garsed uses his middle, ring and pinkie  

kelpbeds

GuyBoden said:

The amazing Tom Quayle demonstrating and explaining his incredible Legato technique.

Pretty sure I was there. Think it was the workshop he gave in Birmingham. Amazing player and a true gent to boot. I've had a few interesting chats with him.

Dominic

He's incredibly good ....and his technique is amazing ; I would love to have  ten per cent of that skill but the distorted /overdriven speed legato sound doesn't do anything for me .....it sounds like a plink-plinky video game soundtrack by computer

Cranky

Tom Quayle and @nikharrison are doing wonders for my fretting hand strength and stamina.