# Beyond the Tremolo **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/beyond-the-tremolo/67714 **Category:** Playing Technique **Created:** [July 19, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/beyond-the-tremolo/67714 "2023-07-19T03:02:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/joebegly) #### Post date: [July 19, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/beyond-the-tremolo/67714/3 "2023-07-19T14:07:58Z")
> [@Byrnewell](#): > > There’s not really any technical exercises offered to practice applying the new information (as far as I can tell), so my assumption is that I’m to just go back to practicing all the stuff I used to practice, armed with this new understanding of technique. There are _tons_ of musical examples on the site. Almost so many it’s hard to know where to begin lol! These are all free: > **[Music](https://troygrady.com/channels/music/)** > > All manner of standalone Cracking the Code musical examples! These are for subscribers: > **[Seminars](https://troygrady.com/seminars/)** > > Cracking the Code seminars are focused, multi-chapter courses that take one topic—such as hand synchronization, musical vocabulary, or a specific picking mechanic—and develop it from the underlying motion into practical musical use. The Pickslanting... > **[Interviews](https://troygrady.com/interviews/)** > > We’ve spent years filming elite players, documenting their amazing techniques, and using that experience to help the rest of us get a better handle on our instruments. Cracking the Code’s pioneering use of slow-motion video to film world-class... (Each interview has a “clips” section with high quality tabs and synced video) What are you interested in? I might be able to save you some clicks 🙂 > [@Byrnewell](#): > > It still leaves some questions though, at least for me. I get that the idea is to find a motion that’s fast and then slow it down… but I don’t want to lose that motion when I do slow it down. Right. Easier said than done, and also be aware that some motions _actually will change entirely if you slow them down too much_. It’s like if you were sprinting and wanted to not go so fast…at some point you’d be jogging and that’s just a mechanically different thing than sprinting. It’s not a slow motion version of sprinting, it’s a different thing entirely. > [@Byrnewell](#): > > There’s also not a really a lot of information about the left hand aside from the concept of chunking, nor L and R hand synchronization. I’ll agree there isn’t a lot about that, but it’s touched on here, and that may be the ‘chunking’ thing you’re referring to > **[Chapter 2 - The Six-Note Pattern](https://troygrady.com/seminars/volcano/chapter-2-the-six-note-pattern/)** > > Yngwie’s vocabulary of single-string creations is one of his most fascinating contributions to virtuoso guitar. It would have been one thing to hatch such a clever idea, and to implement it as a special effect once or twice. But the sheer... In my experience, accenting is crucial for sync. ALSO, I noticed just due to the things I played a lot, I was weak on patterns that didn’t begin on the index finger and I had particular issues keeping sync when playing straight 16ths while using 3nps type shapes. I made a drill to address that and it helped me a ton: [https://www.soundslice.com/slices/8HRkc/](https://www.soundslice.com/slices/8HRkc/) I was also trying to kill 2 birds with one stone by addressing the fact that I noticed that sometimes my nice new tremolo would change entirely when I introduced the fretting hand. Regarding fretting in general, this isn’t _official_ CtC but since it’s on the forum and received a good deal of acclaim, it’s worth noting > [@Efficient Digital Cycles](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/efficient-digital-cycles/18608): > > I have been preparing a post about the left hand postures and fretting strategies I use in my playing, after reading through the following thread: That promised post is still in preparation, and I will present it when I’m satisfied with it. In preparing that post, I watched through several instructional videos and CTC interviews again. While re-watching Shawn Lane’s Power Licks for the first time in a while, I realized something about his fretting sequences that I felt was extremely interes… Mind blowing stuff in there regarding speed potential and fretting. More in depth stuff with video explanations here: > [@The Fastest Lane - Video Lessons on Efficient Fretting Mechanics in Shawn Lane's "Power Licks"](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/the-fastest-lane-video-lessons-on-efficient-fretting-mechanics-in-shawn-lanes-power-licks/42471): > > It was suggested by our moderator @tommo that I come up with a title that more clearly reflected the content of my posts so they may be found more easily in future and which which may draw some more attention. The title I’ve come up with feels like clickbait to me, but I think it serves those ends specifically. I hope the content merits the lofty title. I present a series of videos on the concept of Efficient Digital Cycles, which is a principle I’ve discovered which underlies most of Shawn Lan… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/beyond-the-tremolo/67714)._