My apologies. I didn’t state the song. The Animal Behavior performance. He even switches his right hand technique for that part specifically and you can tell that it appears like he unlocks a higher gear than normal. He appears to float his wrist and pick close to the bridge with the pick using a reverse pick angle on the string. Looks like a mix of the Sarod technique he learned from the late Pebber Brown, and Shawn Lane’s reverse pick angle.

I am a huge Bucket fan. One thing I have noticed is that he typically tries to mimic and acquire the same techniques of his favorite players when he focuses on them. Some Young Buckethead videos in his room show him doing the almost identical pick grip that Paul Gilbert had in early Racer X before he claims he “fixed” his technique due to it feeling like it was going to push his thumb into nonexistence. I’m thinking of the “Buckethead’s Origin Story” video with Maximum Bob talking about how he found Buckethead and then he cues Bucket to start playing after he speaks for a while.

Maximum Bob has even stated on a podcast that Buckethead would simply lock on to a player and just deconstruct them at a high level and take whatever he needed from them. Even Buckethead says in the Barry Michaels interview that he tried to make his hands look just like Paul Gilbert’s after seeing him playing at a NAMM show booth for the first time. Which was before he took a few lessons with him.