Giving up on DXC and committing to UXC a bad idea?

Technique Critique
#1

Hey all,
Looking for help on three items:

  1. When I practice 2NPS scales from the low e to the high e with a 4NPS turnaround sometimes the 4 notes on the high e are a bit jumbled. I think it may be because I’m not moving my wrist down towards the bottom of the guitar and rather anchoring it on the bridge (which makes my strings go a bit sharp on this new Floyd rose I’m getting used to). Is there any material on this? I haven’t found any.

  2. When I practice major scales with with varying NPS per position, the inside string changes going from the high strings to low absolutely kill me. I cannot get passed 130 bpm 16th notes. Would it be a terrible idea to just commit to UXC and hammer/pull off these problem notes?

It would certainly be easier if I didn’t have to practice alternating U/DXC

Thank you!

#2

The method for choosing your picking style is to determine which escape you can do when playing a tremolo. The only way to know is to film yourself and look at the escape in slow motion.

If your tremolo speed escape is USX, then that’s your style. There is no option to become a DSX player - problem solved. Etc.

In general, the famous players we all grew upo listening to developed their vocabulary by playing within their mechanics. They didn’t choose phrases at random and then try to figure out the mechanics to play those phrases. They chose whichever mechanical style they were good at, and then exploited all its weird abilities to create interesting stuff. This is why Cliffs of Dover exists, and has the fives pattern all over it. That pattern is a classic example of USX creativity. A DSX player or a DBX player would not have written this. At least not the same way.

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