Hey everyone, great site!
I’m Dave, 52 now and I’ve been learning lead guitar for nearly 2 years. I’m mostly into rock/metal and some old punk.
After having a good look through the site I have a couple of things I would like to mention and would really appreciate your opinions and advice.
Before I’d looked thoroughly through Pickslanting Primer I hadn’t heard of double escape picking DBX only USX and DSX.
I had thought that using DBX was probably the same as stringhopping but now I know that this isn’t the case I believe it makes things easier for me. I can now use a mixture of all 3 methods and without having to think as much.
Also when for instance playing 4 notes per string in a chromatic warm up exercise, starting from the low E string up to the high E string, although using USX was the correct method I found that I couldn’t mute the lower strings as I moved towards the high E string. When using USX for the four notes on the low E string and then using a kind of smiley face DBX motion when changing to the first note of the A string and then back to USX and so on I find that I can mute the low E string with my thumb and carry doing this up to the high E string.
I hope this makes sense and would be interested in your opinions.
