Dsx with wrist - forearm motion

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#1

Hey!

I’m new to CTC and I’ve watched the pick slanting primer series and about ten episodes of the anti gravity seminar. With the pick slanting primer I found out that wrist - forearm motion feels the most natural and fast for me because it’s an USX motion (correct me if I’m wrong).

I was wondering how to use this technique with DSX to play fast mixed escape phrases like petrucci does (under a glass moon, another day etc.) is this possible, and how is this done?

I tried it with only wrist motion for a very long time and got pretty fast at it, but not clean, consistent, and after doing it for a few minutes straight a bit of discomfort. I noticed that after ending the 3 notes on a string with a downstroke, I still hit the string I already was playing an extra time when switching to the next string (b string to g string for example). I’ve only noticed this problem so far with descending a scale. Hence the question, is it possible with wrist forearm technique too?

Thanks!

#2

Welcome!

I checked out your TC - I’m sure you’ll get great advice there, but in the interim:

Even without audio (not sure if you did this on purpose, but your vid has no sound. You should include it if possible.), visually this sort of form usually can’t do DSX, and is better suited to even numbers of notes per string starting on a downstroke, or ascending sweeping/economy. The current teaching on mixed escape here, which you can find in the tutorial section of the primer, is to use reverse dart thrower wrist motion, using a zero degree pickslant (neither downward or upward pickslanting: neutral). This appears to work for both DSX and DBX lines, but not USX… that is where the downward pickslant comes into play.

Now, this is not to say that there aren’t others ways to get mixed escape, but there aren’t explicit instructions for anything outside of RDT here as of yet.

I’m sure they’ll ask in the TC, but have you tried all the table tapping tests yet?

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#3

Hey! Thanks for your detailed response:) that makes a lot clear for me! The video not having sound wasn’t on purpose haha. I’ll practice the reverse dart motion further then!

Yeah, I did those tests. The wrist forearm motion came out as fastest, followed by the wrist motion. The wrist motion was fairly low I think, around 180-190 bpm on the guitar itself. But I think it’s possible to get that number a bit higher with practicing. I’ll watch the pick slanting primer about the motion tutorials for wrist motion again.

Thanks again!

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