If you’re not happy with these attempts, my comment is that in general, all of these attempts look similar. They’re all in the deviation / elbow ballpark, don’t go as fast as your table tap tests, and have a very small motion size with aggressive attack.
I don’t know what the magic bullet is, but part of me wants to see you do something that is totally, 100%, different than what you currently do, just so we can say we 100% succeeded in learning something new. Maybe there can be some learning there that will transfer to other ways of playing.
Here’s a less common approach. This is a wrist motion that is very easy and fast. It is similar to tapping on a table:
The trailing edge grip is just there to make the string attack smooth. The pick is coming in on a diagonal (DSX), and you need some way of having it slice into the string smoothly, and slice back out again smoothly. If I hold it with an index finger grip, I can’t get the UWPS orientation I need. So I have to hold it this way. You can swivel the pick in your grip until it is exactly perpendicular to the path it is travelling. When you achieve this, the attack will feel very smooth in both directions. Just so we’re on exactly the same page here, try to use a Jazz III if you have one.
It feels very comfortable and the motion is light and easy. It goes easily over 200bpm when you figure it out. Edit: Think of it like tapping on a table. The motion that goes toward the guitar is the tap. The motion that goes away is sort of the ‘up-tap’. This is the reverse of how we normally think because here the tap is an upstroke. Don’t think of it like that. Just think of it as a tap. To go faster just think, tap tap tap tap, focusing on the tap (trapped) pickstroke. That’s how you keep time with it.
Give this a shot and see if you can copy it. If you film it, do it down the neck in good lighting at 120fps so we can see what’s going on.
