hello! I was trying to master and being confident with this pattern, and i was asking to me which kind of motion would be better to use. Sorry if i’m basic, and my question can be really banal.
I don’t need exercises, i would to imagine the motion.
Thank you for any advice…
Luigi
I don’t know that one motion is most effective because certain motions are easier/harder for each individual.
I’ve been messing with some DBX (1NPS) motions over the past ~7 months. The first one that came most natural to me is the Andy Wood motion. The hand looks about flat on the strings/bridge, relaxed trigger grip, and the hand appears to just travel from side to side. We know that it’s really a curved motion, but just straight side to side is what it will look like and feel like.
Another option is the Steve Morse setup. Very supinated, hand rests on the side of the palm and the pick is held between the thumb and middle finger (index touches the pick, doesn’t really do much). That motion for me feels and looks like it’s just flexing and extending. Sort of a door knocking motion. Again, it’s really a curved motion but it won’t look or feel like that from the player’s view.
A variation on that is a trailing edge grip like Troy does here:
I’ve had moderate success with that from a speed perspective but I can’t get the tone right so I shelved it.
One I haven’t tried is the Molly Tuttle approach, which is similar to the Andy Wood setup, but more pronated. I can’t comment on it other than the setup since I haven’t tried it. My understanding is that it’s sort of a mirror image of the Andy Wood setup in terms of the path the pick traces.
Another option is a wrist/forearm blend that has a “motor cycle rev” look to it. I have no experience with that either.
The best bet for you is to watch these:
and see which ones you can do the most effortlessly from the beginning and work from there. The really important thing is to spend time finding the motion, not just picking one you like the way it looks and working up from a slow speed. You’ll know you’ve got a good motion (again, a good one for you) because it will be able to go fast. It may be a little sloppy and hit some wrong strings or swipe, but the speed of it should feel fairly effortless.
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