# Fretting Hand Problems Only In Certain Patterns **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/fretting-hand-problems-only-in-certain-patterns/100970 **Category:** Playing Technique **Created:** [October 14, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/fretting-hand-problems-only-in-certain-patterns/100970 "2026-10-14T23:09:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 25
### Author: ![Tom\_Gilroy](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/tom_gilroy/32/335_2.png) [@Tom\_Gilroy](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Tom_Gilroy) #### Post date: [October 24, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/fretting-hand-problems-only-in-certain-patterns/100970/25 "2026-10-24T13:28:49Z")
On trills: Here’s John McLaughlin. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SdGYBI1fBhs/hqdefault.jpg "John McLaughlin Solo Guitar") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdGYBI1fBhs&t=25) Notice how the trilling action at 0:25 is generated by planting the index finger and rocking the **wrist** back and forth. This allows the trill to be executed with a faster movement pattern that naturally synchronises to his picking technique. I wrote more about John’s rocking mechanics here (and in the comments that follow): > [@Straight up and down sequences vs. alternative fingerings](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/straight-up-and-down-sequences-vs-alternative-fingerings/64358/8): > > Happy to help. Thanks again. Discovering the EDC concept was absolutely revelatory for me. I’m not sure that there’s a correlation here. I don’t notice offsets adding any difficulty to picking sequences. The EDCs facilitate absolutely bonkers fretting hand speed. In order to pick each note, you would need a picking movement that can keep up, and the margins on error in synchronisation are very tight. I can imagine that if the cyclic patterns aren’t even, strongly connected to your internal… And here’s Marshall, trilling by alternating different fingers to avoid the finger reuse problem. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2dxhKHYGBIk/hqdefault.jpg "Marshall Harrison - Lessons and performance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dxhKHYGBIk&t=1998) That entire video of Marshall is full of ridiculous stuff. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/fretting-hand-problems-only-in-certain-patterns/100970)._