A couple keys to facilitating two way pickslanting

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Ok, this is just what I’ve noticed on my 8 month journey into developing this technique.

Mind you, I’m still not quite where I want to be with this yet, but I am making progress. Additionally, I am a natural economy picker ascending, but since descending has been a weakness I’ve attempted to develop TWPS for descending 3nps scales. I made little progress the first 4 months until I began to do two things:

  1. I have to anchor myself down. I wrap my pinky under my bridge humbucker.

  2. I cannot mute the strings with my palm. It gets in the way of the wrist rotation.

I am now beginning to develop some real speed with the motion descending with these two shifts.

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