Cross Picking String Hopping

[weealf]

Hi guys I am new to the forum so go easy if this has been discussed. I have the Volcano and Antigravity Seminars so understand DWPS and 2 way pick slanting. I watched the crosspicking video @Troy posted on cross picking (one with no chatting). I can’t get my head around the difference in string hopping to cross picking? Is there something I am missing? Is there a different video you guys have all watched. I understand the motion for string hoping is like knocking a door. How does cross picking differ?

[weealf]

How do you delete a post? I think this is covered in the cross picking topic about the Albert lee curve.

[Brendan]

Hey, welcome to the forum! We don’t have a lot of solid crosspicking tutorial material yet, but there is a lot of relevant discussion here on the forum, so first thing I’d suggest is doing a search and reading through to catch up on some previous discussions:

Critique Troy's crosspicking!

The subject of crosspicking comes up a bunch around here, and it’s kind of in a weird limbo zone. It’s something we pursue in interviews, and work on, but because of that, it’s also something where we haven’t filmed formal tutorial type material beyond the “documentary” style data gathering features we’ve made about Steve Morse, Carl Miner, Martin Miller, and so on. So every time it comes up in discussion, I feel like we’re talking about unicorns or Leprechauns or something. Now that we have …

Where do i start with Crosspicking?

Is there a crosspicking primer comming? Im practicing DWPS and really digging this approach, but i want to expand it with some crosspicking. Isn’t the crosspicking the same as 2WPS? Where do i start?

Everything you need to know about crosspicking

…in two minutes! Well, maybe not everything. But it’s a start!

Quick answer to your question is that stringhopping = inefficient motion, when the muscle chain across consecutive notes does not alternate, e.g. the “door knocking” motion requires wrist flexion/extension to be repeated for each consecutive note played. Whereas for crosspicking, consecutive notes will use different combinations of muscle movements. Pretty good explanation here too!

[Brendan]

Ah okay glad you found that! Finished writing my reply before seeing the above No problem to leave this topic up for now, may be useful as reference. If you prefer I can delete it just let me know.

[weealf]

Hi Brendan thank you for your response and link to chapters 3-5 as the other topic only pointed to chapter 4. I am happy to leave this here as it may help others to quickly see what the difference is without having to read the full previous topic. I will however go and read up as it looks very interesting and might help me with a troublesome 3 string hop I have encountered in learning flight of the bumblebee.

[RockStarJazzCat]

I think it’s very likely that I was once a hybrid, “stringhopping crosspicker.” @Troy is responsible for convincing me to not throw out the alternate picking chops I’d already developed. I’m thankful for that.