The Prisoner Arpeggios

I played it economy picking. I’m getting a lot of bounce. What’s your take on it?


Nice playing!

I can’t see any bounce from the camera angle, but you look relaxed to me and it sounds clean and you’re at the tempo of the recording. In other words, doesn’t seem problematic :slight_smile: Is your concern that you’d like to do something similar that’s a good bit faster?

God I LOVE Iron Maiden. And that’s one of my favorite songs. Some day, I will be able to play that part as cleanly as you are doing!

I only have two thoughts on what might be contributing to the bouncing your experiencing:

  1. It looks like your wrist has some flexion to it. Troy mentions that having your elbow behind the body of the guitar can cause this.

  2. It also looks like your wrist is radial deviated a bit.

I could be completely off base here. I just reviewed the Wrist Motion section of the Primer, so it’s still fresh in my mind. But I’m just a noob trying to figure it all out!

Regardless, Adrian would be proud. Best of luck to you!