I’m a chronic finger roller, mostly by necessity because I’m missing a 1/2” off the tip of my middle finger. I can’t bend up with it at all but I can bend down. There not much of a tip either because the remaining nail kinda bends over the it so it slips off the string, so it’s slightly bent in as opposed to being bent out. Some chords are insanely difficult to play, and the standard 3NPS scales I do with 1, 3, 4 unless it’s a 1/2 step from the first finger.
I do it pretty much as often as possible out of habit. It’s evolved into where I’ll roll any finger across any number of strings. Since we’re talking EJ, here’s what I do for this lick early on in the Desert Rose solo.
I roll the pinky on the last 2 notes of the first group of 4, then roll the pointer on the first and last notes of the 2nd and 3rd groups and the ring finger on the middle 2 notes of those. The fifth group is also rolled for all 4 notes. This is my own tabbed version using the high E-string more often since I have trouble stretching to the same notes on the B-string. I don’t bar the pointer either. If it’s just the A-string and the E-string, all of the notes in between are muted,
I am incredibly eager to read this! I don’t attempt EJ’s style of fingering since I have small hands but one thing I’ve noticed that helps me a lot is to completely lift my finger off a played note instead of “resting” it on the string, for lack of a better word. It’s the easiest way for me to play his fastest lines clean. I’d like to do it more often, but a couple of decades of not doing that are hard to unlearn lol
