https://youtu.be/J3MrrPhM40g[https://youtu.be/s-OzVwhGktohttps://youtu.be/mQC5iyA9Iyw](https://youtu.be/s-OzVwhGkto)https://youtu.be/xcpdzbv_CQw
I saw a video of a friend of mine shredding and realized how much slower and unimpressive my playing was, so I watched all of the free cracking the code videos on YouTube and practiced it for about 10 hours, and have recorded this video. I need some help guys.
I think originally I played with upward pickslanting before watching the series. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated!
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If looks like you have pretty decent speed with the right hand, but I think there’s some coordination lacking between both hands.
Have you found any exercises / riffs you’ve been working on?
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I’ve been doing chromatics to try and help that as best as I can.
Could you post a video of you doing the exercises?
I get the feeling that a big focus of CtC is the mechanics of string changes (as well as straight speed picking, which you seem to not have a problem with), so ideally post something with string changes to be able to see what kind of mechanics you employ.
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https://youtu.be/J3MrrPhM40g
https://youtu.be/mQC5iyA9Iyw
https://youtu.be/s-OzVwhGkto
Here’s a few videos. One with the chromatics, and two pick angle videos (attempted).
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So to start, this is not bad considering you’ve only been downpicking.
The chromatic exercise you played is alright at the slower initial speed, but it starts to get out of sync when you push the tempo. You can hear some notes being doubled, others omitted, etc.
One way to force synchronization of this exercise is to play fast “chunks” instead of the entire thing (low to high e strings). I’d probably start with just 5 notes; 4 on one string and a single note on the next string. Since you know that you start each string on a downstroke for this pattern, you can focus on accentuating the first and 5th notes, using them as “landmarks” when the speed starts to pick up. From there you can increase it to 3 strings, or loop it (reverse it back to the start).
That being said, I would include some 3 notes per string exercises. 4 notes per string (assuming you start on a downpick and strict alternate pick) will always switch strings on a downpick, which will not develop the ability to switch strings on an up pick.