Inside, outside, and range of motion (size of arc?)

[JakeEstner]

I’d be shocked if this hasn’t been asked before, but wasn’t sure best keywords to find

Say we’re going back and forth between two adjacent strings with a real purdy Cracking-The-Code-Approved DBX motion.

Is there any reason that outside picking would have to create a bigger or smaller arc/range of motion compared to inside?

Obviously individual idiosyncrasies would play a big role here, so I guess I’m wondering about the physics of the scenario, er, the comparison between the physics of the two scenarios.

I think @tommo commented on this somewhere…

[tommo]

@JakeEstner

Say we’re going back and forth between two adjacent strings with a real purdy Cracking-The-Code-Approved DBX motion.

lol

@JakeEstner

Is there any reason that outside picking would have to create a bigger or smaller arc/range of motion compared to inside?

I don’t know! Only vaguely related topic off top of head —> I recall this older ideo by Troy where he plays the PG lick backwards, and you see that outside picking looks the same as inside. However, one thing I should point out is that all the velocities are reversed, so I am not convinced they are fully equivalent (go to approx 6:25)

Paul Gilbert Lesson: The Truth About Inside & Outside Picking (Antigravity, Chapter 24)

[Moje]

I’m equally baffled by this. I have a lick that I can reverse, I’ll be doing the outside-picking version at a tempo where things are going okay but it really requires focus. If I flip it around to inside picking it’s effortless, I have no idea why.