# Need help with my Right Hand. Please Help, its painful! **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/need-help-with-my-right-hand-please-help-its-painful/56893 **Category:** Technique Critique **Created:** [July 8, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/need-help-with-my-right-hand-please-help-its-painful/56893 "2022-07-08T16:30:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 70
### Author: ![joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@joebegly](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/joebegly) #### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/need-help-with-my-right-hand-please-help-its-painful/56893/70 "2022-07-12T15:58:47Z")
Here are 2 Dminor descending runs, one USX the other DSX. [https://www.soundslice.com/slices/KbHkc/](https://www.soundslice.com/slices/KbHkc/) I’d definitely encourage you to do your own thing since you obviously have an amazing vocabulary already. Maybe those will help give you some ideas to do more ‘musical’ things and still get the benefits of single escape playing. Also noteworthy is that any completely USX phrase can be with DSX, just start on an upstroke instead of a downstroke. The inverse is true as well. One other huge leap forward for me that I learned on here is @Tom_Gilroy’s amazing research on left hand efficiency. Most fast things I do now, I try as hard as I can to use these “Efficient Digital Cycles” and I made sure to use them on the above tabs. Check this out in your spare time: > [@Efficient Digital Cycles](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/efficient-digital-cycles/18608): > > I have been preparing a post about the left hand postures and fretting strategies I use in my playing, after reading through the following thread: That promised post is still in preparation, and I will present it when I’m satisfied with it. In preparing that post, I watched through several instructional videos and CTC interviews again. While re-watching Shawn Lane’s Power Licks for the first time in a while, I realized something about his fretting sequences that I felt was extremely interes… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/need-help-with-my-right-hand-please-help-its-painful/56893)._