So if 0 degrees is no edge and 90 degrees is only edge, what is your angle?
How many mm deep does your pick go?
Does the line between your pick tip and the back that splits the pick in half cross the string at 90 degrees?
What’s my angle? I can only guess. I don’t have a protractor. 80? 85? Pick depth? I can only guess there too. Maybe 6mm.
If I understand what you’re saying, almost nobody uses 85 degrees or so (assuming that 0 degrees means no edge picking, and 90 is all edge), 6mm of depth seems like a lot? I try to aim for barely scratching the string (1mm?), but I suspect the average is just a few mm? In any event, I still think that video should be helpful!
How’s your legato? Maybe it’s not the right hand that has a problem.
I’m not really interested in working on legato. I’m more interested in speed picking. Troy appears to have some pick underneath the strings and it’s gotta be more than 1mm.
Yeah I’m all for just skimming the surface of the strings, but that is hard to do to develop that ability.
Kind of like telling someone to go ice skating but not to dig into the ice at all. Just merely grace the surface of the ice.
Only Jesus can do that.
Is it? Anyway, please consider posting a video, I suspect a lot of experts will advise you! English descriptions are not really so useful from what I have gathered over time.
At times I have a bit of difficulty hanging on to my pick because I’m trying to hold the pick close to a right angle to the string and edge picking.
How would I just go back to how I was angling my pick to the string, which was about a 45 degree maybe less, angle and not get hung up or stuck on a string?
If I understand what Troy wrote, I would have to have a motion that is not parallel with the strings, but rather a diagonal motion into the strings (going downward motion).
For me it helps to be aware of the tactile sensations in your fingertips. If you press very lightly at the same time as you pick, you can feel the pick strokes in your left hand. It helps with the ccordination. I lose my chops if the action is low, experiment with high action and see if it helps. How fast can you play tremolo on one note?
Don’t know. My tremolo has improved though. A big problem I have is I cannot play 3 note per string scale shapes.
Those shapes feel very hard and uncomfortable to me. I don’t know if it is worth it to me to keep practicing them. Maybe I should look for alternate ways to play scales.