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We’ve added a new Pickslanting Primer section, “Choosing A Technique”, which addresses issues common to players coming here for the first time and trying to figure out which steps to take next. Do you like Yngwie. Which technique should you learn? George Benson (a common one)? What technique should you learn?
This includes some nice sub-ten-minute overviews of the picking mechanics used in different playing styles, which were deceptively tricky to write and edit. Try to condense all of “jazz” or “rock” into one video under 9 minutes, while finding representative visual examples of all the techniques — it’s not easy to do! We like the way these turned out. Hopefully they hit most of the important questions to give new players a sense of familiarity with the overall landscape, while not being overly technical.
As part of this idea of choosing a technique to work on, we have a few thoughts on evaluating the performance of whatever technique you use currently. This includes both experienced players with years of a particular technique behind them, as well as new players with some burgeoning facility in maybe a couple of motions — possibly even just as a result of the table tap tests — who are trying to figure out which technique to focus on.
This update includes a ton of additional streamlining of the introductory sequence, trimming some videos down in length to get to the point, and relocating others entirely so they don’t distract from the hands-on tutorial aspect of these important initial steps.
A good example is the new “Motion Mechanics” section which includes condensened versions of existing “forearm” and “elbow” overview videos, and an all-new “wrist motion” overview that introduces the dart thrower concepts up front in a way that I think is the simplest presentation we’ve done yet of this complicated joint:
Finally, we’ve relocated a lot of the more “explainer”-style stuff into its own unified reference section, which can serve as a kind of index / glossary to common terms. This includes some well-done lessons, like the entire “Identifying various motions” section, that were simply too lenghty and technical to be placed up front in the intro sequence. They’re now all in the reference section, filed under the relevant joint motion.
Not evrything is in the reference section yet, but this is something we’ll contionue to update over time as a kind of mirror of the more tutorial-oriented part of the Primer.
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Awesome update!!!
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