# Pepe's livestream practices and highlights
**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962
**Category:** Show and Tell
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962 "2021-03-25T18:41:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/1 "2021-03-25T18:41:32Z")
I’ll start posting links and highlights to my practices here. I’ve really enjoyed the half dozen or so I’ve done so far (especially when people jump in and chat), so I’ll continue to livestream all practicing I do that’s longer than a few minutes.
Highlight from the last few has been doing Erotomania a good amount thanks to @tommo and @gabrielthorn talking about it:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlwRgKDpl0)
Now I’m trying to get my “crosspicking” back to where I felt it was, so working the Take the Time Unison to the point of clean, Universal Mind intro with a different fingering that doesn’t have as much stretching, and getting Shawn Lane’s Gray Pianos Flying riff to be as consistent as possible.
Anyways, I’ll be jumping on here in a bit, thanks for the dudes that have dropped by and chatted so far!
@PickingApprentice @guitarenthusiast @Philausopher @JB_Winnipeg (a few others but I can’t connect the name in YouTube to the username here)
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/2 "2021-03-25T19:26:11Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/qlkpDsk1nug?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
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### Author:  [@guitarenthusiast](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/guitarenthusiast)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/3 "2021-03-26T14:55:35Z")
I’m having fun tuning into these.
After this, the next step in the Cracking the Code forum’s user-generated content evolution is clickbait-tier reaction videos.
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/4 "2021-03-26T19:28:53Z")
@guitarenthusiast it’s been great having you in there! Especially since I only talk to a handful of people about metalcore and stuff. Making me want to downtune a guitar and do some.
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/5 "2021-03-26T20:26:29Z")
Doin’ it live:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/h1fYvCp2_88?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
@guitarenthusiast my shirt is a tribute to you
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### Author:  [@guitarenthusiast](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/guitarenthusiast)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/6 "2021-03-27T02:18:09Z")
Damn, I missed it. Great album and great band, but you already know what I think. I tried to get that shirt but it was sold out the last time I checked.
I’ll try and catch the next one.
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### Author:  [@aliendough](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/aliendough)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/7 "2021-03-27T18:12:35Z")
Damn bro, you’re good!!
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/8 "2021-03-27T18:25:36Z")
@guitarenthusiast I lucked out and caught them at the ten year anniversary tour, got it there!
@aliendough thanks man, I try lol
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/9 "2021-03-28T20:13:43Z")
Fixing to get on, will probably keep trying to crosspick that portion of Universal Mind, come to the realization that I use more finger movement than I thought, etc…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/cdehhe1TRvM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque
Here’s a highlight of the fingering I’m trying to work up for Universal Mind; I believe it’s crosspicking, something that I haven’t really tried to work up before so this has been fun to come up with ways that make sense to me. I’ve found that doing 2 notes back to back on either side of the “middle” of the pattern helps me feel out the picking and the muting, then building from there:
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YTMdi-GKykw/maxresdefault.jpg "Universal Mind "crosspicking" practice") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTMdi-GKykw)
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/10 "2021-03-29T18:55:02Z")
Gonna hop on in 20 minutes or so, will drop the link when I do. Gonna work on the same stuff as yesterday.
[https://youtu.be/QfAUABwc4j8](https://youtu.be/QfAUABwc4j8)
Ended up having to switch to archtop last 15 minutes or so? Tried Tumeni Notes and Universal Mind on archtop, was fun.
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/11 "2021-03-30T20:35:20Z")
I’ll be on in 30 minutes or so, hopefully get Tumeni Notes intro cleaner and other stuff.
[https://youtu.be/WnKfFVr\_MEc](https://youtu.be/WnKfFVr_MEc)
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/12 "2021-03-31T18:42:38Z")
Gonna get on in less than an hour, do usual shenanigans. I think the crosspicking Universal Mind thing is coming together pretty well.
[https://youtu.be/Ei\_eiuptMjw](https://youtu.be/Ei_eiuptMjw)
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/13 "2021-04-04T19:09:09Z")
Doing a quick stream before I head out:
[https://youtu.be/oRos7BFDJpE](https://youtu.be/oRos7BFDJpE)
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### Author:  [@aliendough](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/aliendough)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/14 "2021-04-05T09:01:58Z")
Is that a metronome on your phone?
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/15 "2021-04-05T18:40:01Z")
@aliendough yup! I had audio going from OBS in a few earlier videos, but then it decided to not be in sync anymore. I’ll try again when I get an interface (soon, hopefully).
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/16 "2021-04-06T21:02:13Z")
Getting on, come heckle me:
[https://youtu.be/VXuNiSIDqW0](https://youtu.be/VXuNiSIDqW0)
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/17 "2021-04-12T19:15:06Z")
Working on some patterns and stuff:
[https://youtu.be/BmFaxBr92gA](https://youtu.be/BmFaxBr92gA)
Restarted:
[https://youtu.be/3oWJYxyIC3M](https://youtu.be/3oWJYxyIC3M)
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### Author:  [@Pepepicks66](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Pepepicks66)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/pepes-livestream-practices-and-highlights/41962/18 "2021-04-24T21:15:23Z")
Replying to @Rot in one of his threads reminded me to upload this:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4CZ_hqRk8)
Trying to benchmark my playing more, so here’s a highlight. Started around 200 bpm 16th notes and got to 220 bpm for two string patterns and 210 for 3+ strings. Feeling like my playing is way better compared to about a month ago, mostly attributing it to really embracing my finger movement while picking and not “gluing” the thumb side of my wrist down like I would when playing DSX. Feels a bit more unstable but definitely better for playing. My muting was affected by this change as well, but I think that’s improved.