Finally something I can work with! lol. Thanks so much! Ill watch those interviews now and reach out to Bill Hall.
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Easy for me to say this after verification from Troy, but I browsed this thread and noticed your deleted comment, checked out what was there and clicked through your video and I thought âwow. thatâs a good elbow tremolo. I wonder why he deleted this comment??â. Lol! Glad you got the new comment up with the video as well as Troyâs thumbs up.
Good luck on your future progress! No matter what happens next, youâll know exactly what a fast, smooth picking motion feels like.
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haha I originally deleted thinking I could get a faster attempt but figured this was pretty good. Thanks a lot!!
Hey guys! Just a quick update on my picking. Wanted to know if I am on the right track here. Changing strings through a DSX motion still feels a bit foreign to me. Also, I think it looks a little better now but when I first introduced changing strings with DSX, it seemed like I would swipe through the next string sometimes. Iâve messed with positioning and more upward pickslant to eliminate that. I think now I may very slightly graze the next string from time to time. These videos arenât clean playing by any means, but again, just wanted to see if anybody had any tips on areas I can improve. Thanks!!
I think the playing is pretty good. Sounds clean and synced to me.
Sometimes you may be a little ahead of the click. Like, your slow single notes to lock onto the click are on, but your scalar phrase is rushed and starts a little early. Syncing to a metronome is a separate skill. If right now your goal is to work on string changes and get them feeling good, it may be best to save the metronome for a later stage. You can keep it nearby to spot check tempo to make sure you are playing near your target speed. But trying to keep up with it may be causing you to play differently than if you were just focusing on the pattern.
I notice your picking angle changes a little on the high E
as compared to what you do on the other strings. It is like you are reaching down to the E via some supination. It is possible that could make your trajectory a little trapped and account for that feeling that you arenât clearing the string.
Great work though!
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I just noticed the change of angle on the high E. Ill definitely try working on that later. Im guessing the rest will probably sound smoother as I continue getting more comfortable with the DSX and upward pickslant. Thanks so much for having a look!
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Your reply interested me - as I just started visiting the forum again after a pretty long hiatus (during which I have been implementing Troyâs ideas).
Could you elaborate on what you mean by the escape motion being the important thing these days? Do you basically just mean that the angle/amount of down/upward slanting doesnât matter much, but the actual act of the escape is whatâs emphasized?
Or is escape motion a whole new topic altogether?
Thank you
In a nutshell, what allows for clean string changes at speed is the path travelled by the pick, not the pickslant in itself. Of course, the two things are often correlated (players who favour upstroke escape tend to have a downward slant etc.)
The longer answer is contained in these freely accessible resources:
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What Tommo said.
Also, your question made me remember this semi-recent thread so I looked it up for you. Link: I have a question!
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Makes sense - thank you for the info! Checking the vid out now as well
Perfect thank you. Happy to see there is a thread about this, will check it out as well
hey guys, I was wondering what your thoughts on this were. It seems to me like synchronization problem but just wanted to make sure. I didnât record it, but I have been working on that 6 note Yngwie line you told me to try out several weeks ago. Also at faster speed, I sometimes seem to very lightly swipe the string I am changing over to on a downstroke. I have tried messing with the slant and different positions as much as I can without sacrificing too much comfortability. Somebody recently pointed out that I change my hand angle when I get down to the high E and I have also been trying to rid of that as much as I can.
