@Troy I’m new to Cracking the Code, and I found out that I’m a “Trailing Edge Picker” a la George Benson. After watching majority of the Pick Slanting primer, it appears that most of the techniques are geared towards “Trigger Grip Pickers”. Can I apply the concepts/techniques in “Cracking the Code” to my picking technique or will I need to switch to “Trigger Grip Picking”? If I can apply TWPS to my picking style which videos cover that topic?
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Thanks for signing up for our stuff! I have played trailing edge on and off and I can do almost everything that way that I can do with a leading edge grip. Here are some examples:
So I wouldn’t worry about the grip. We don’t show every technique with every possible grip just because that would be a lot of combinations. However I agree that we could include more trailing edge examples than we have currently, and we have lots of updates planned so we’ll add that in.
One thing we’ll also be updating is removing the “two way pickslanting” section because it’s not really clear about what motions you should use and how that should work. And we probably won’t call it that either because again, confusion. The “slant” of the pick isn’t really the focus what’s happening in those examples, it’s the motions themselves.
So for now I recommend just making sure you have one or more core motions working. That could be wrist, wrist-forearm, elbow, whatever. And that could be either single escape (USX, DSX) or double escape (DBX). Those are the foundations. Playing a scale, for example, is just a combination of those motions, and not really “slanting in two ways”. Even if the pick’s appearance does appear to change in some of these approaches.
If you have any other questions as you run through this, just let us know.
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