# Gilbert sixes feels weird
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317
**Category:** Technique Critique
**Created:** [November 15, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317 "2025-11-15T03:15:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@snewmy](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/snewmy)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/1 "2025-11-15T03:15:22Z")
Hey something isn’t really feeling right or synchronized with me doing the gilbert sixes pattern. Any ideas?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1-HvQmmh6A)
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### Author:  [@snewmy](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/snewmy)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/2 "2025-11-15T06:45:44Z")
I feel weird gaps inbetween switching strings here, it looks like i am string hopping or something? Do you notice my pick goes past the last note but then like jumps upward almost on top of the escape angle?
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### Author:  [@snewmy](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/snewmy)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2025, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/3 "2025-11-17T21:33:04Z")
just gonna bump this once
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### Author:  [@Drew](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Drew)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/4 "2025-11-18T18:10:13Z")
Any way you can slow that down? My eye for this stuff isn’t especially great, but at a high level nothing looks obviously wrong.
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### Author:  [@snewmy](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/snewmy)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/5 "2025-11-19T05:34:09Z")
are you able to select lower speed on the youtube short to 0.25x? or do you mean even slower
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### Author:  [@Drew](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Drew)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/6 "2025-11-19T17:23:28Z")
I always forget about that. :lol:
Looks pretty good, for the most part? The only thing jumping out at me is you do seem to be visually “lowering” the pick a little after your upward escaped string changes, particularly on the treble strings, which technically speaking shouldn’t be necessary because your subsequent upstroke should pull the pick right back down on is own. I suspect part of this is that your picking motion really has a pretty modest escape, so this may be in part a way to compensate for that.
But, there are members here with a MUCH better eye for this stuff than me, and I’d be curious to see what a more expert opinion than mine has to say.
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### Author:  [@nrelles](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/nrelles)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/7 "2025-11-20T04:53:05Z")
You might be digging into the strings a little too much. Really…you want the right amount of attack to be able to make a full sound…but nothing more than that. I’m still working on it myself. You just want the very tip of the pick touching the string. It should almost float over the top. Check out your fretting hand too, as it’s real easy to make mistakes there. I still do.
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### Author:  [@Mattster](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Mattster)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/gilbert-sixes-feels-weird/92317/8 "2025-12-14T13:55:15Z")
Start the run with an upstroke?