Pickslanting is dead. Long live pickslanting!

[PickingApprentice]

Sorry, I’m dense and I don’t understand what you have put here

Classic DWPS suggests “DWPS, DWET, UWTE.”

I don’t get the ‘ET’ and the ‘TE’. I read this as Downward Pickslanting, Downward Escape Trapped, Upward Trapped escaped. I’m confused!

In my mind we shouldnt mention both escaped and trapped - just say one and assume the other by ommission.

Isn’t 1WPS and 2WPS fine , but include the upwards and Downwards as a prefix that references the buried pickstroke? (U-1WPS and D-1WPS). For 2WPS we could specify the primary pickslant with PD-2WPS and PU-2WPS. For crosspicking, we could rename to ‘Curved’ to avoid the confusion with the bluegrass meaning (C-2WPS). If pickslanting is a linear motion only and shouldn’t be related to crosspicking/curve picking, then just refer to it as ‘Curved double Escape’ (CDE).

Sorry if any of this has been suggested above, I have come to this thread pretty late…

[PickingApprentice]

prefix that references the buried pickstroke

The reason for this means that we keep DWPS etc the same as we always have.

[kgk]

Sorry, I’m dense and I don’t understand what you have put here

Classic DWPS suggests “DWPS, DWET, UWTE.”

I don’t get the ‘ET’ and the ‘TE’. I read this as Downward Pickslanting, Downward Escape Trapped, Upward Trapped escaped. I’m confused!

ET is really read E→T, and TE is really read T→E. So, it might be confusing!

In my mind we shouldnt mention both escaped and trapped - just say one and assume the other by ommission.

Possbly, but it would be nice to describe E→E and T→T. The question is, “how?”

Other systems, like the one that you suggest, might be better!

[JonJon]

so is the Pickslantng Primer now known as the Pickescaping Primer?

[tommo]

@Troy

In engineering you have Tx and Rx for transmit and receive, and interestingly from my various Googling, there appears to be no clear consensus as to where the “x” actually came from. Physicists among us — we’re looking at you @Tommo — can comment further.

It seems I’m a bit late with this reply and a lot happended below your initial reply Anyway, in Physics I can’t think of obvious uses for appending an “x” but then again I don’t remember much outside my field! I know we have T= temperature/kinetic energy/transmittivity or R= resistance/reflectivity/center of mass position depending on the context - so yeah plenty of room for confusion in principle!

I agree with you though that it is probably clear and concise enough to write “upstroke/downstroke escape” in full length, it seems to give the crucial info and there’s no need to mention the trapped side of things.

Somehow any of the proposed shorthands don’t have the same elegance of DWPS/UWPS but I may have some weird emotional attachment to the latter acronyms, due to the incredible shred gains they brought into my life

Oh but there is one brilliant exception hehehe:

@eric_divers

Zargon Picking and Blork Picking would work just as well

[eric_divers]

I know we have T= temperature/kinetic energy/transmittivity or R= resistance/reflectivity/center of mass position depending on the context - so yeah plenty of room for confusion in principle!

Yes, this is exactly what I was thinking of.

[Troy]

Oh but there is one brilliant exception hehehe

Com’è meraviglia che ti sei addattato non solo alle techniche che discutiamo ma anche ai neologismi inglesi. Come si inventerebbe “Zargon” in Italiano?

[Troy]

I agree with you though that it is probably clear and concise enough to write “upstroke/downstroke escape” in full length, it seems to give the crucial info and there’s no need to mention the trapped side of things.

It happened! I got tired of typing all those letters and used the acronym. I think it’s fine. If everyone knows what I’m talking about and it saves me the forearm RSI from all the video editing and forum-izing, I’m fine with it!

Thumb wiggle along a different axis

I don’t see any “thumb wiggling” here. You might feel something going on, but whatever is going on is so small as to not be affecting any motion that I can see. I think you’re overthinking this. You gotta choose something that’s working really well and motor on that, and get to the point where you can play real music at professional tempos and articulations. Of all the clips you’ve posted, the thing that worked the absolute best is the DSX (oh no acronyms! “downstroke escape”) wrist motion …

[tommo]

Come si inventerebbe “Zargon” in Italiano?

Hahaha non lo so, devo prima fare ricerca sul significato di Zargon e Blork. Mi piaceva il suono!

[JUAN_Z]

I’m talking about and it saves me the forearm RSI from all the video editing and forum-izing,

Hey Troy take care of those virtuoso hands, get an assistant, one more if necessary.