Is there a practice plan in the pickslanting primer?

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#1

Hi everybody!
I bought the pick slanting primer a couple of weeks ago. The videos are great, but I lack direction to be honest. The excercises are plenty, but can any of you point me, where in the tons of video material, I find what excercises, when to do, for how long.

#2

Hey!

Yeah I don’t think you’ll find something like that here. It’s almost too personal of a thing to have in a platform that supports needs as diverse as the users of the product are.

Also, the focus recommended on here is to get away from ‘exercises’ as quickly as you can and move onto to applying the principles to music you actually enjoy. This is just a generalization, but I’m pretty sure the recommended way to use the primer is:

  • Go through the whole thing, in order
  • Once you identify your primary motion make sure you can
    • Play a fast tremolo with it
    • Use that same motion to play phrases that stay on one string
    • Move onto phrases that change strings where it makes sense given your primary motion (i.e. USX, change strings after upstrokes, DSX, change strings after downstrokes)
  • Either write your own material that capitalizes on these ‘coordinations’ you’ve learned, or try playing phrases from your favorite artists.
    • It’s easiest if these favorites happen to have the same escape trajectory as your motion, otherwise, you’ll need to get creative by starting on an upstroke or adding legato occasionally

Hope that makes sense. If you give us specific goals we can give you more focused advice. Also, and this is important, it assumes you’ve really found your fast, smooth, efficient motion. If in doubt, you can film yourself and post it in a technique critique thread.

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#3

Thanks, man!

Yeah, your reply helps a lot. I watched the whole course through once. Makes lots of sense. But I just was unsure what exactly to do with the info. I’ll start with analyzing my own slomo videos. I am not even sure, I need to play any faster (from my musical perspective), but fast parts shouldn’t give me this feeling of being special in any way, meaning I’m tensing up… even if that’s just mentally. I wanna play anything I want to play! :wink:

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