The Frightened City Fingering

[jonmoi]

Hi All

Are there any good tutorials out there that explain how to play the high bridge part for The Frightened City

I found a demo by a French guy and although he plays the part quite slowly and very well, he doesn't actually explain how he achieves the back picking flick

Can anyone assist

Regards

jonmoi

[roger bayliss]

Must be someone on Utube which is usually a good resource for this type of thing these days ?

[ecca]

What's the 'high bridge part'? ......... and what's the 'back picking flick '?

[RUSSET]

I think you have to have a 'Back-Flicking Pick' to do back picking flicks ...... er ..... or was it backing-packing flips ? Best ask Mr. Alan.

T.

[sixstringsid]

has to be something lost in translation here, in all the years I've been playing I've never heard of 'high bridge part' or 'back picking flick'.

[Uncle Fiesta]

Then you lead far too sheltered a life sir and should really get out more!











(LOL, as the young folk say.)

[Mark Burton]

Isn't it obvious ???? Highbridge is a small town in Somerset .......

to reply sensibly to a new member's first post .....

does this help ? it's a slowed down wav of the solo (which I assume you refer to as the "highbridge" part)

Frightened City Solo Slow

As for back flicking, I think my prolapsed disc would prevent that .........

[Martin Page]

I think I know what he means by the back-flicking thing. It's like a quick raking action in reverse, which Hank uses quite a lot. He certainly uses it in The Frightened City, The Savage and Please Don't Tease solos.

Martin.

[Tab]

Hi Jon,

It's really not that difficult.

It's played around the 12/14th frets on the top four strings and the 'flicky' bit is a little mixture of upstroke with the pick and pull offs on the 3rd string. Easier to demonstrate than to describe.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Terry

[negninegaw]

I saw Hank do this upward plectrum thing live and in close up during the wild solo of the song 'Nine times out of ten'.
I think it was in a long compilation of early black and white Cliff R. songs somewhere on YouTube.
Play it at half speed (my HTML5 player can do that; I am not sure Flash players do that?)