What's your favorite guitar technique?

my favorite technique is tone crafting, if that counts. I spend more time on making interesting tones than anything else, then I just try to make my "technique" as it were match that tone. That's my favorite thing and the thing I'm most proud of. I don't necessarily mean at the amp level either but at the production\\Mixing\DAW level as well. I guess it could be argued that I'm more into producing than actually playing guitar and guitar is just the tool I ended up choosing to make the majority of the sounds in my songs.
 
Sweep-tapping (ending the highest note of a sweep with a tap with the fretting hand, then another up a third or so with the picking hand before dragging the pick up the other way, that stuff is all over the very early Fragmenta stuff) huge, scrunchy, palm muted power chords with double stacked 5ths and octaves, hitting a tapped harmonic up from a fretted pre-bend and releasing. I occasionally spice up my powerchords in my band by adding minor and major 7ths for tension.

When I play chuggy, thrash riffs, I omit the root and just use the 5th and octave for the ‘chord’, pedaling back and forth between that and the chugged root.

Now that we’re a four-piece again, when the guitars aren’t doing harmonies, I love to have the other guitarist double the higher power chords (which I would play on the A, D and G strings) by ditching the octave and playing it down low with inverted 4ths (on the E, A and D strings).

I love flamenco style clean playing like at 2:39. It’s a lot harder than it sounds without flamenco chops.
 
Pentatonic or scale runs are always in alternate picking. Arpeggios in hybrid picking. Sometimes legato. No sweep at all
 
I don't even know if I have a technique. I don't even think about what I do. I just play. I guess if I do have a technique, I'm pretty much just a pentatonic noodler.
 
Aceman said:
I flub a lot of notes, and I like to fap.
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Something that might define my 'style' is combining chords, like I'll play the top three strings of a D chord and the bottom three strings of a G chord. I'll write a vanilla standard progression, then substitute multiple hybrid chords to give it more color.
 
I also use a lot of 'pad' loops, and an Ebow quite a bit. I am also using an expression pedal a lot to vary the feedback and level of the delay.
 
I love all types, so to me that's like asking..."what's your favorite note, on which string".

Unfortunately, I am pretty limited on what techniques I can actually use due to arthritis and several hand surgeries, otherwise I'd love doing it all.
 
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El Dunco said:
I bet nobody has made a truss rod wide enough to stick a .410 shell in to literally blow out the speaker.
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?????

I literally cannot picture what you're talking about. A trussrod in a guitar neck that is as big as a shotgun barrel and has the mechanism for firing a .410 shell?! And aim that monstrosity at your amp's speaker cab so you can shoot your speaker out?!

That's certainly a guitar technique that I've never tried or even seen before...so maybe you are correct that nobody has done that before.
 
Sweep Picking / Arpeggios, two Whole step bends, different finger vibrato voicings, two handed tapping, Melodic tremolo work ....but last week a Blues / Funk Master playing with his band took me back to Basics !!!!
 
GuitarDoc said:
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I literally cannot picture what you're talking about. A trussrod in a guitar neck that is as big as a shotgun barrel and has the mechanism for firing a .410 shell?! And aim that monstrosity at your amp's speaker cab so you can shoot your speaker out?!

That's certainly a guitar technique that I've never tried or even seen before...so maybe you are correct that nobody has done that before.
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The. You understand perfectly. Sabot too, no birdshot.
 
GuitarDoc said:
I love all types, so to me that's like asking..."what's your favorite note, on which string".
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My favorite bass guitar strings are E, D, B, A, G, C in that order. Favorite guitar strings are probably D, A, b, E, e, G, B

My favorite note is usually dependent on what the rest of the band is playing.
 
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