What’s up guys! So I’ ve been using downward pickslanting for a while and the thing is that I’m not sure am I doing it correctly. Is my motion mechanic efficient enough? I have tried using forearm rotation and I’ m not sure is it forearm rotation indeed. My goal is to achieve Yngwie motion mechanic. @Troy, I would really appreciate your answer. I’ll post two short videos of pop tart lick.
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These look great! Two comments:
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Try to not start the picking motion like an “air tremolo” first. The point is to be synchronized with your fretting hand. If you’re just moving the picking hand back and forth rapidly there is no synchronization.
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Don’t worry about doing the “Yngwie” motion mechanic. Yngwie uses multiple picking motions, including forearm rotation, fingers, and elbow. He blends them together in complex ways, and also switches between them without really thinking about it. You don’t need to do these things to use downward pickslanting.
It looks like you’re using elbow flexion/extension. This is a perfectly fine motion mechanic. It is fast and powerful, and Yngwie himself uses this from time to time.
Keep up the good work!
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Thank you for the comment. I was wondering if you have used pure forearm rotation in the first part of your “Four Essential Motion Mechanics for Picking” video, or it was a combination of elbow flexion/extension and forearm rotation. The current motion I’m using is fast and powerful, as you have said, but it can be unreliable for me and sometimes gives mi fatigue. If you could somehow explain a little bit deeper how the forearm rotation is executed it would be great. By the way I can perform something that looks like exaggerated forearm rotation but only at moderate speeds. Thank you again, I really appreciate everything you have done for world’s guitar community.
Wow, that’s fast! I don’t know if this helps, but I found double picking exercises on 2 strings very useful to figure out the forearm rotation DWPS (before I was also using mostly elbow which was tiring). For example, I would take any two strings and do this many times, at decent but not crazy speed:
--------------5—5--------------------7----7----------------8—8------
–5—5-------------------5----5-------------------5—5----------------
The combination of DWPS and frequent string changes made it so that using the elbow was almost impossible, so my hand had to find another way. I can’t guarantee it’ll be the same for you but you could give it a shot 
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Thank you very much and great playing btw!
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