Hello everyone! I’m a new member here. Happy to be here. CtC is awesome. I’ll get straight to the point. This is just a question for anyone here who has managed to master a picking style and had this problem or someone currently with this problem. Has anyone here been able to do a particular technique taught here consistently fast (preferably a USX type for my purposes) and had a hard time slowing it down or locking into a click? If so how did you deal with it? My critique is still open at the moment you guys can check it out for a demonstration and a better explanation, but I’m interested in seeing if this is a common occurrence when learning a new technique.
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I think it is a common occurrence across the board. Both slower tempos and faster tempos are hard to lock into, but for different reasons. Slower tempos are hard because there is a lot more space in between the notes, which makes even slight off beat playing more obvious. Essentially more opportunities to mess something up. The drag of really slow tempos may have an effect as well. They are useful for learning phrases through.
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True. I would like to add too for anyone else that jumps into this thread that the tempos that I find most uncomfortable are where it’s too fast for hopping/inefficient motions to be possible but too slow to be something where you can go in autopilot.
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Yeah they’re just “rough spots” in transitioning from one speed to the other. The best thing I’ve done is to creep up to / down to the speed in small metronome increments.
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I had this problem for a while too. @Tom_Gilroy has some ideas that he’s been talking about collating and publishing that helped me a lot.
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Mention of Tom and his out of the box thinking always makes my ears perk up. I’ll be looking forward to hearing more about this. I definitely have “pockets” where things feel less good than others.
BTW welcome to the forum @AbrahamV1987 .
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I have some notes and an outline for this, but I haven’t started a full write up yet. I hope to get started on a first draft before academic year starts again in September. It will probably end up being longer than the EJ article.
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