Recent subscriber and just getting into the lessons. I’m finding the amount of content a bit overwhelming - not a bad thing (more is better) but I’m unclear on what the flow should be for someone like me. I’m a longtime jazz player with a good grasp of music theory, fretboard familiarity, and reasonable fretting hand technique. I came to CTC to push past the limitations of my picking hand. Ultimately I want to be able to play bebop-style jazz lines quickly and effortlessly.
For example, I followed the lessons in the Pickslanting Primer, got through the Picking Motion Tutorials, which then led me to the Downward Pickslanting section. There I find the first practical exercises under the Yngwie Malmsteen topic, and I’m now working through those. But I’m not finding much guidance in how to apply those exercises, or even to determine if they’re the right exercises for me given all the various techniques that were previously presented. Should I be transposing these exercise to all 6 strings? Should I be mastering these exercises before moving on to others? How will I know when it’s time to move on?
Looking for suggestions from other subscribers who have similar goals to recommend the lessons and exercises they’ve found most helpful.
(As an aside, I had no idea who Yngwie Malmsteen was and the lessons on the site don’t obviously provide that background - I had to go to Youtube to find Troy’s entertaining history of that player).
