Crosspicking Workshop

[ChrisX]

@Troy

My recommendation is to try them all, without prejudice. You can’t predict which is going to work, and these “deviation” approaches are both so similar that getting one just leads to getting the other eventually.

Troy,
You have mastered all the forms of pickslanting, but I’m curious if as a pickslant-first player, you have issues playing some of the mixed nps patterns/licks that arise in CAGED and arpeggio playing?

I know in CTC you talked about the need for hopping, and until yesterday it didn’t even occur to ask how someone “gets around” with a significant slant as opposed to perpendicular.

I created a thread on this yesterday, not even knowing about your crosspicking seminar, but it seems to me that some method of crosspicking is going to be used for the vast majority of playing, and the pickslanting is only needed for shredding.

If not crosspicking, then what?

Analyzed my 25+ years of picking and for the vast majority of stuff I play, I am crosspicking. The only place I get tripped up is the really fast stuff, but I have managed to do that by using sixes that don’t require a change in pick slant. Crosspicking doesn’t care if there are different numbers of notes per string, even single notes. Crosspicking doesn’t care if the rhytym changes, because your hand/wrist is not locked into hyper speed. You can inject swing or other changes. Crosspicking …