Hello, I used to post here a long time ago. My problem was in my picking hard, I couldn’t pick fast due to stringhopping issue which prevented me to play a simple tremolo faster than 110bpm 16ths for more than 10 years, I tried to slow down, learn the wrist motion which is seen as the most efficient type of picking motion, gradually increased the speed by practicing with a metronome but unfortunately it was a waste of time.
I took lessons from 3 guitar instructors (including Anton Oparin) and I couldn’t even least a simple tremolo picking despite practicing for over 2 years religiously, I used to play from the elbow before quite well but they insisted on learning the wrist motion because it’s easier and faster. They even said that my wrist motion was correct at slow tempos and they told me to stay at those tempos for longer in order to ingrain it in my muscle memory, but as soon as I reached 110bpm 16ths everything fell apart, for some reason my hand refused to adapt to wrist motion and reverted to stringhopping.
The only advice that helped me was the one that Troy Grady suggested (to whom I’ve very grateful) - find a motion that only works at fast tempos and the only one that works so far is the elbow motion with my fingers anchored.
Here’s my current progress.
Do it sound sloppy? Sorry for the poor lightning and bad angles, I hope that it’s possible to see anything. It’s one of my better attempts. I can rerecord with better lightning/angle if necessary.
It doesn’t feel comfortable or stable but it’s the only way I can do it, it propably even looks too tense and erratic and yes it’s very inconsistent to the point that it takes several attempts to play a single phrase, even playing a tremolo is quite tedious, I can only last 15 seconds max, unfortunately I forgot how I used to play from the elbow 12 years ago. I’m wondering if I should adapt to the current technique, practice more or does it look too broken and inefficient.