Hello dear friends… recently i’ve been practcing a chromatic exercise made well known by John Petrucci… I start with an upstroke using DSX. I noticed that strings no.4,5 an 6 are harder to pick when i try to get faster beecause they are thicker. it doesn’t seem to createa problem when i use USX because of the momentum created by my wrist probably…i tried different angles (with DSX) etc to overcome this problem… but also wanted to ask you what do you think is a good way to solve this problem
Are you sure it’s because the strings are thicker? Might it be that your picking hand is in a different position on those strings and the picking angles are causing garage spikes or some other hindrance?
I recommend you post a video to get more targeted help. Since you’re an MIM member, you can post a technique critique and get help from Troy and Tommo directly.
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The tension is approximately constant across a typical set of strings, so they should be somewhat similar. You can check in detail with a calculator like this, look at the tension column on the very right:
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John Taylor tremolo picking 16ths at 250 on a low B string in the Obsidian seminar proves string thickness shouldn’t matter so much.
Just a theory here and feel free to correct me
I assume it is also a fretting hand exercise
What do you think about your fretting hand,by that i mean with thicker strings you have to press harder to get a good note
In such case isn’t it more of a fretting hand weakness,thicker strings tire your hand faster and by that it puts a limiter in a way where your coordination tells you to slow you picking one to keep up?
Either way interesting topic