How do you efficiently guide the motor learning process?

[lars]

The point of this exercise is to find a position where there is no net force pushing the pick in either direction. With this pick orientation the upstrokes and downstrokes will sound even, and both should feel smooth. You posted a video earlier in this thread of a fantastic tremolo, but also commented that it felt like the pick got stuck. To me it also sounds like one of the pickstrokes is louder than the other.

@kbr

the pick rotates in my fingers so that the pick point almost stops hitting the string, mostly the edge of the pick hits it

Is there a different grip you can try, that lets the pick move even further in the direction “it wants to go”? Perhaps one of the trigger grips?

[steve506]

My two cents: I fail to see if you are adjusting the hand positioning to the lower strings, so my guess is that your arm + wrist are too parallel to the string as opposed to the higher strings which you naturally attack from angle.

Have you tried placing your hand higher when you play the lower strings? I think it’s worth testing even if you have to hold your hand against the body of the guitar as an experiment.