Warm-up and DWPS

Technique Critique
#21

I guarantee you if you are confused about something, a hundred other people are too. You’re just the one brave enough to ask about it!

This is all very helpful. Over the next few months we’ll be adding some more intro material to the site, perhaps to the Pickslanting Primer if that’s the best place to stash it, to address these super important fundamental issues of picking movement, which ones to choose and when, and so on. We have not done a great job with this because we underestimated the complexity of these things, and the extent to which they are problematic for people still trying to piece this all together.

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#22

Troy
I think you’re on the right track with re-summarizing and re thinking how to briefly present the ideas in a primer and then referring to prior videos for in-depth exploration and clarification. I teach medical resident physicians on a daily basis. Most of the time they need to hear the punchline first before they are ready to dive in to the derivation
. Gautam

#23

Attendings on the Cracking the Code forum? Right on. How much Zdogg do you watch when you’re not watching our stuff?

It’s even worse than that. We have almost zero material on pick grip and picking motion, whether it’s derivation or punch line. Our knowledge in these areas was so spotty that we didn’t even know they were problematic subjects. The forum has been a help in clarifying what form the instructional side of this needs to take, so we’re shooting to get some stuff up asap.

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#24

yeah that might work. Also, maybe something like, “if you are looking to play like X guitarist” you might want to go here:

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#25

(All apologies for the delay. Spotty internet where I am this week)

Yes! An attending physician in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation no less. Like all of your other fans, I have been simultaneously completely blown away and entertained by your publications and insights. But as a pm&r doctor I have also been extremely happy to see you using proper biomechanical terminology when referring to hand and wrist positions. Bravo!

I completely understand your point about essentially figuring this out on the fly. As with most emerging insights in the medical literature, the technology has a lot to do with the initiation of a new path. For example your references to the Casio keyboard, ability to slow down video slash sound, and of course the magnet, revealed many new insights and explanations that probably would not have occurred without them.

You guys have done such a fantastic job thus far, that everyone is just expecting you to have this perfect system or model that you can explain away in one video. Of course you can’t because you’re still figuring it all out. So you have my sympathy with regard to that. However I do think you have enough That you can create a primer and call it 1.0 with the understanding that there will be other versions as developments occur.

Oh and yeah
Zdogg is totally the man

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#26

Awesome. I’m probably not alone when I say we welcome your expertise in these critical areas. We are indeed figuring stuff out on the fly. Any color you care to add on topics relevant to guitar mechanics, we’re all ears.

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#27

So, Start at the Primer and move forward from there? I am totally new to trying different picking techniques, even worse is that I am totally self taught on everything I know about Guitar.