# Best exercise to get rid of stringhopping **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/best-exercise-to-get-rid-of-stringhopping/40906 **Category:** Playing Technique **Created:** [March 1, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/best-exercise-to-get-rid-of-stringhopping/40906 "2021-03-01T22:06:55Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Thegent](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/thegent/32/4654_2.png) [@Thegent](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Thegent) #### Post date: [March 1, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/best-exercise-to-get-rid-of-stringhopping/40906/2 "2021-03-01T23:33:36Z")
Copying one of the forms below (find one that works best for you) here is the way to go. You’re looking for a smooth tremolo on one string (at first) to know you motion is efficient (therefore not ‘stringhopping’). > [@Test Drive Your Motions! Pickslanting Primer Update](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/test-drive-your-motions-pickslanting-primer-update/38737/12): > > Just as another point of interest, that shot we reference of Eddie’s motion from “Live Without A Net”, which you can see here at about 2:35: [[Test Drive Van Halen-Style Wrist Motion!] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcPOy1Lp5mI) This really looks like Eddie’s primary motion was USX to me, aka 2:00 wrist motion based on his arm position. I know I’ve said that before, based on other footage which was somewhat less clear, but then I stumbled across this one while editing this lesson. You can see down the strings at just the ri… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/best-exercise-to-get-rid-of-stringhopping/40906)._