Thanks, Tommo! I seriously enjoyed meeting you. I have a feeling we could talk for hours about all kinds of stuff, including the difference between good handshaking and bad… haha.
The “Bee” at 225 took a lot of hard work for me as I’ve never had a naturally good right hand, but I was young and determined. The math works out to exactly 15 notes per second.
You bring up a great point. Even at 30 years past my best, and way out of shape, I can still twitch certain muscles pretty fast. One thing about getting older is I’ve recently developed a chronic pain in both inner elbows, and it hurts to pick fast in guitar playing position. I elbow pick in that position, but with air guitar on a horizontal surface like a table, there’s no pain and almost 100 percent use of the wrist. Only watched the first minute and twelve seconds of Troy’s video so far, and already understand some of what’s going on there.
I guess it’s not so much that I’ve gotten slow, but rather both my picking consistency, and left/right sync are shot from lack of practice. Should be able to get that back, then onto conquering inside picking on a descending run. Seems I forgot that many parts of Bumblebee have inside picking on ascending runs which weren’t a problem, so it’s a bad escape motion going from a higher string to a lower one. Leads to hopping at medium speed, and total sloppiness at higher speed. Pretty sure it’s isolated to bad upslanting whereas downslanting was always more comfortable.
I will conquer this once and for all!
