# Question about picking velocity & orientation **URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/question-about-picking-velocity-orientation/76484 **Category:** Playing Technique **Created:** [March 29, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/question-about-picking-velocity-orientation/76484 "2024-03-29T13:17:23Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Ruefus](https://forum.troygrady.com/user_avatar/forum.troygrady.com/ruefus/32/11660_2.png) [@Ruefus](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Ruefus) #### Post date: [April 1, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/question-about-picking-velocity-orientation/76484/2 "2024-04-01T14:38:49Z")
Others with far more articulation will hopefully chime in. As controversial as some may find it…That chromatic exercise is a colossal waste of time. Don’t try to get good at it. For all intents and purposes…its pointless. And I did that exercise a LOT. @Tom_Gilroy as done a massive amount of research and work on this. Before I’d even taken my first lesson with him, he saw a video of me playing that exercise and others like it. His comment was “At best they’re a waste of your time, most often they’ll reinforce fretting hand postures which are suboptimal for actual playing” This post is full of great insight and worth the 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/question-about-picking-velocity-orientation/76484)._