Hey, I’m Ari, and enjoying my foray in this world immensely. I’m already a huge fan and do plan on subscribing soon! I have been learning from the Youtube videos posted, and the Pop Tarts lick was definitely a revelation of sorts! I’m trying to work on the DWPS Volcano thing now, and I’ve been playing for a long time (27 years) and picked up a the natural DWPS without realizing. Outside picking has been much harder and unnatural for me. HOWEVER, I can only do the Volcano thing at super fast speeds and therefore not that controlled when at medium fast (170 bpm’ish) speeds. Should I just rock the basic 6 note Volcano lick at super slow speed 5-10 min a day until i get some control? Thanks!
Ari
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Hey Ari, welcome! Glad you’re enjoying so far.
Typically we suggest everyone start with the Pickslanting Primer:
This has a lot of good material on things like picks, grip, and basic picking motions. As part of this we have a chapter about speed + learning picking motions (this one’s also free to watch on YouTube):
If you can do the motion super fast that’s a great start! Generally you don’t want to just do super slow practice as it won’t necessarily give you a realistic feel for what it will be like at speed. But some variation, fairly fast to get a feel for the motion + medium fast to work on consistency, is probably a good idea.
You can also try searching on the forum for things like practice and speed, lots of good discussions on here 
See this as well for more on the “starting with speed” video:
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Thanks a ton Brendan! I’ll be bothering all of you more in the upcoming weeks!
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