Chords for Guitar Center Sessions: Dick Dale - Guitar Picking Techniques

[E] But wait a minute.
Watch this.
I was going to tell him about the picking on the drumming
that he do.
Now watch when you go
_ When you become no longer the grasshopper.
Now you're like this.
[C#m] _ _ You hear the one, two, three, four one, two,
three, four, one.
Can you hear that [Bm] when I'm going?
_ [E] Watch I do this on my string. _ _
_ Can you feel that?
Like that.
You just you don't just feel it going like that.
That's why they teach you how to syncopate the application of the pick.
When the pick is picking down, when a guy is picking up and down like this, watch, and he goes like this, he's won.
_ _ _ It's the same.
If you look at it under scope, it'll go like this, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
So you don't feel anything.
So what I discovered that if you take your pick and you pick down, and you go, din, din, da, da, din, din, da, da, din, din, da,
now watch, the time it takes for you to pull your pick up and push it down, there's a split second of hesitation.
So now you're going to hear this. _ _
_ _ _ I taught that to Eddie Cochran when he was doing Summertime Blues.
I taught it to people, the slides I taught to Jimmy Hendrix.
I found [B] Jimmy when he was playing bass for Little Richard at the Bar in Pasadena to 30 people.
Stevie Ray Vaughan learned them my first records.
And they had learned all the slides and things like that that I was doing.
Because I was trying to make my guitar sound, I was raising lions and tigers, and trying to preserve the breeds of these animals before the poachers killed them all into extinction.
I had hawks, eagles, and falcons, and gorillas, and apes, and leopards, and jaguars.
I had over 40 different species of animals that I lived with to preserve their lives.
So when my lion would scream, go, wow, for me, or my elephant would scream for me, I would imitate that on the guitar.
And then they should have called me Dick Dale, King of the Jungle or something, you know what I'm saying?
But I was surfing, and at the same time, the 17 surfers that came to my first dance, they said, man, you're the king.
The king of the surf, man.
King of the surf guitar.
And that's how they gave me that title.
They named all my songs, Let's Go Tripping, [E] was the song when_
_ _ That was Let's Go Tripping.
You [N] say it today, you get busted.
But in those days, it meant going down to see Dick Dale at the Rendezvous Ballroom in a place in Balboa, California.
_ And I opened that ballroom.
They would not allow people _ to throw dances with a guitar player because they said it was devil music and evil music.
And that was in those days.
They only listened to horn bands.
And I convinced the city, I said, would you rather have your kids in one building so you can see where they're at,
or out in the street drinking T-Bird that was the wine they were drinking?
So they said, well, they got to wear ties if we give you a permit.
So my dad bought a box of ties and gave 17 surfers ties that came in with their bare feet.
And that's what we did.
And then I started playing all these types of songs.
And that's what I did.
So now watch.
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[N] That's how Nitro came to be, the Nitro snowboard, when I busted my clavicle and I busted my tailbone in 25.
If you guys wear a butt pack when you're first learning, because it'll save your butt.
Believe me, if I knew that, I wouldn't be where I am today.
I couldn't sit down for five years.
Now my son uses my snowboard.
It's a Nitro.
So any of you, give me a question.
You got a question.
What? _
Hands.
He's got.
_ What, Mr.
Liu?
I was going to save it for the end.
Do you want me to do the end now?
Save it.
All right.
Tell me a little bit more about your relationship with Leo and how you came to know Leo.
Well, Leo, we used to sit together.
First of all, I think Leo really liked me too because of the fact that I love boats, you know, cabin cruisers and stuff.
And he had _ Matthews and Stevens, and he used to spend half of his days designing the inside of boats.
And I had a beautiful Hunter cabin cruiser, and then we used to talk a lot about that.
But he loved country music, and we would sit together in his home on a little 10-inch Jensen speaker listening to Marty Robbins.
And he hated, you know, stereo.
He wanted everything pure.
So I helped him invent the Aquaplex, all these different things, the Contempo organ, the Fender Rhodes piano that I pioneered at the _ _ Hollywood Bowl when it first came out like that,
and then the six-string instruments that we did, all kinds of stuff that we were.
Leo used to say if it can withstand the punishment of Dickdale, it will be suitable for the human consumption.
Speaking of punishment, your guitar was released with Fender in 1994, right?
No, when I met Leo, it was 1955.
But when did you get your signature guitar?
Oh, this isn't the signature one.
The signature one was done, I don't know when, I forgot.
This goes all the way back to the beginning with Leo, 1955, something like that.
So your guitar, though, hit the mark.
I've only had one guitar in my life.
That's it?
That's awesome.
I only played one.
But now I'm getting all kinds of kind, because we're designing some and we're having fun doing that stuff.
See?
All right.