Hi All!
First let me start by saying thank you to Troy for creating this incredible material! As many others I have given up on trying to master picking ages ago. Hopefully with help of you guys I can improve my picking technique.
Ok, so this is where I am at now:
- Tremolo picking - I can pick with 16 notes with metronome @ 140 accurately. 160BPM on a good day. Although @ 160BPM i tend to tense an most movement seems to be coming from the elbow and is hard to control. At 160BPM or higher I am unable to sustain it and i gets sloppy pretty quickly. My questions for point no.1 are:
- how to develop quicker and controllable tremolo picking?
- where should right hand movement come from at speeds over 140BPM? It seems that I tense and all comes from elbow. Wrist seems to be the most natural and controllable movement but hard to maintain at higher speeds at the moment
- Playing DWPS patterns (such as below clipe) - 16th notes up to 130BPM are what I can do it cleanly and easily. Then between 130-150 I can get it if I am warmed up but it is not consistent. 160 is my top speed for DWPS (and tremolo picking too) - but only at short bursts and only 10%-20% of the time it is clean.
- how do I build speed up from clean and accurate 120-130PBM in 16th notes.
Also my observations regarding picking:
- It seems to me that picking technique (I may be wrong) is completely different for speeds of 150+ in 16th notes. It feels different and it does not feel like the same technique that I use for 120PBM but only faster. Is that possible or correct?
Finally this is a short clip of me playing some DWPS in 16th sextuplets pentatonic shapes @80-90 BMP. Please let me know if it is looking ok. I am aware it is not always clean.