I TOTALLY agree. I write songs under contract for a company. The easiest ones to write are when they’ve given me parameters of some kind. Even small things point the needle in a direction. The hardest things to create are the ones they give NO direction on (like, “Write a worshipful song”).
I’m enjoying working on the hand coordination and a particular TWPS exercise I found online - CtC is helping me push forward, even if I haven’t quite pushed it as far as I want to go. Thank you, @Troy!
Hey gang, I started playing electric in high school after first playing classical since fifth grade. When I started on electric (a brand new, white 1983’ish Ibanez Roadstar 135 which has since accumulated stickers 
), I started with a palm planted in what would now likely indicate an upward pickslant orientation. Eventually I got stuck, tried a million things, and ended up somewhere between strict-alternate-picking-with-string-hopping and cross-picking. At the point where I was introduced to DWPS (second season CtC), I managed to injure my forearm by adopting too much of a downward orientation all at once (fast lindy, social dance class injury exacerbated the situation). Troy’s cautioned that there is no reason to learn everything, but that issue is moot for me, as while he was learning many ways, I was too.
So that said, most of the relative beginners that I’ve met lately are jumping the gun a bit in thinking they know what DWPS, UWPS, and TWPS are. I’m likely to teach them to notice the subtleties of what they are doing without forcing too much at once. DWPS by itself comprises many different things mandating attention in one’s playing. I’ve made the mistake myself of bringing up “rest strokes,” for example, which unless one’s been through a classical lesson or two, one is likely to have no conception of. Sometimes noticing the curvature of a pick stroke through space needs to come before the labels. Just one example, but it’s what I’ve seen this week.
Whatever can be done to get folks through the speed barrier and used to playing beyond what they can actually be following in real time will help them get through some of the fear factor. So I favor DWPS, as the Yngwie and Johnson “systems” are not intuitive, and crafted towards speed. But, there’s a lot of pre-work to consider that I’m proposing matters to people coming at this at different times in their practice/lives.
Without getting into details here, just throwing it out there as I think many can’t see what we’re seeing at all without breaking down what’s happening. I think above all, helping folks stay relaxed and in positions where they won’t hurt themselves is super important. Peace, Daniel
p.s. We all “see” different things, and together we’re learning to see more than we would otherwise.