Did you relearn your licks and lines after implementing DWPS/UWPS/2WPS?

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#1

Did you relearn most of the licks you knew before finding CTC so that they work with DWPS/UWPS/2WPS?

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#2

Yes, I had to certainly think about string changes more and also how I employed legato in my lines. CTC has made me more aware of what I’m playing from a physical point of view. Once everything sinks in and becomes muscle memory I probably won’t have to think about it as much.

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#3

Some of them yes! But in most cases where I did this, I could never play the licks properly before. So it was not so much re-learning the licks as it was finally learning them!

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#4

Yes! Having been playing in UWPS for so long, the feel of rotational DWPS is so different that it really feels like relearning every lick. But at the same time, the left hand is the same so it’s just half the work.

Actually for me, UWPS has been a frustrating thing as I could never play 2nps scales, starting on a downstroke like all the instructional material tell you to. Transferring to DWPS is like finally learning to play the RIGHT way. IMO of course. And this makes relearning everything really fun.

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#5

I re-fingered and re-arranged quite a lot, yes! Not just for DWPS but with issues of slant, downstroke vs upstroke, hybrid, and slur all in mind. Larger toolkit for problem solving now.

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#6

I’m VERY early into starting studying this stuff properly, still working through the Yngwie downward pickslant stuff, but while I’m going through the various licks and exercises, in addition to trying to play the specific lick or chunk as written, I’m also going through and looking for variations too play that sound more like “me.” So, for example, taking the 6-note patterns and doing a lot of diatonic and major-key variations, in addition to a lot of Yngwie’s more harmonic minor driven approaches, or the 7-note pattern and on the second string trying to drop back a full step rather than a half to make it a pure diatonic lick… I’m hoping that when all’s said and done, not only will I have a few cool Yngwie licks at my disposal, but I’ll also have a few new licks of my own to build improvised lines around.

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