Hey Everyone
I’ve had a USX picking style for a few years and have decided to spend time learning to at the very least change strings on downstrokes. I’ve realized that when descending from high strings to low with 3nps life’s a lot easier with a DBX/DSX technique.
After briefly demonstrating what my regular picking looks like in the beginning - I show what going up 2 octaves of G major looks like with the USX picking. Ascending is vertical and descending is horizontal so as to achieve string changes after even number of notes - very common with Jazz players.
Almost of all of my vocabulary does this and I think it also has great benefits as to travelling across the fingerboard and its ‘zones’.
However, I don’t like the ‘mandatory’ extra work that this gives the left hand for someone as simple as playing a scale up and downwards.
I then switch to a new pick grip and picking style where I can go up both up and down vertically.
I think this new motion is a DBX motion but I don’t know if it is a dart thrower or reverse dart thrower motion. Can someone help and let me know what it looks like?
I can’t speed this motion up very much - I play one of Jorge’s lines form the Strunz and Farah interview (inverted though for USX) with my regular picking and then with this new motion to show the difference in how fast it is.
I lastly arpeggio through the chords for the Who’s ‘Tattoo’ - they’re not super clean but I think its the same motion and that must mean the motion is DBX?
Does anyone know if this is dart thrower motion?
