Ah gotcha. The before is here:
The after…guess I need to film another clip. I’d been meaning to, just to make sure I’m on the right track. I actually filmed one a couple days back and noticed some wobbling/rotaty stuff in my forearm at the higher speeds so I wanted to try fixing that on my own before submitting.
You didn’t fall asleep? lol jk glad my mistakes can help someone else. Troy’s pretty amazing at this analysis. Moral of the story, unless anyone is ripping through stuff at Batio speeds, they would be wise to submit a video for critique.
Good reminder that I need to get back in the habit of filming myself daily === even if it’s just for my own reference.
thanks @joebegly
what’re you working on now?
Mainly this, in efforts to get my DSX more controlled, while sounding hopefully not too exercise-ish. It actually sounds a little like Bach if you play it around 140bpm. 186 is the goal for me.
lesson for me - don’t waste an hour warming up. just do the stretching, 5-10 min warm up and get into songs and pieces that are more useful than exercises like chromatic stuff.
the B Maj. DSX exercise looks like it’d help me. I’ll try it today! 186. wow.
this is exactly what I needed to hear. I need to get off warm ups and exercises and get back to shooting video of myself playing actual pieces that I care about. freeing.
Mostly nothing. I tried to get the hyperpicking motion to happen while stuck in traffic the other day. But I just tense up and nothing happens. If anyone looked in the car window, that would have been pretty funny. Thankfully it was raining.
Otherwise I’m not working on learning pieces of music, so that type of learning, I really just don’t do it at all. And the picking techniques I know are all at or pretty close to the end of the road in terms of being where they need to be. I’ve already done that work. We’re super busy trying to figure out how to write and present this stuff, that’s what occupies the majority of my time personally.
If you want to know what I do when I play guitar, on the days when I get a chance to do it, mainly I just sit on the couch in front of the TV and dick around with whatever pops into my mind. Sometimes I’ll come up with a cool lick or riff or something and play it for a while until I get bored. Some of these things eventually become tutorial examples we can use.
Personally, I have always gotten the best mileage out of that, not routines. I don’t enjoy doing things for specified amounts of time or even at all on some / many days. I only want to play when I’m excited to do so, and I only want to play things I’m excited to play for the length of time I want to play it.
I like the idea of less practicing and more dicking and I think we should adopt this term* here at CtC!
seriously , this is re-assuring. I spent a LOT of time doing exactly that often mindlessly just playing stuff until ideas strike me.
The topic of “TV practice” has been discussed a lot, but once again, we have to be careful what we mean by “practice”. So just to be clear, what I’m referring to here is more playing for enjoyment with a secondary purpose of coming up with new ideas. The TV usually isn’t actually on when I do that, it’s just the room where I happen to be sitting or standing.
If I’m actually paying attention to what I’m playing and enjoying that, I personally dislike the TV on or someone talking to me, I find it distracting. If the TV is on, and I have a guitar in my hands, nothing interesting happens — the hands just repeat stuff they already know, like mechanical autopilot.
I talked to David Grier about this in our most recent interview. He likes the TV on. It’s not really clear what he gets out of this, but it sounds like it’s at least partly for creative reasons:
Re: glossary, the Pickslanting Primer is the glossary. The topics all exist wherever they exist in the Primer. Edge Picking is here:
And hyperpicking is here:
However what we can do is make an index for the Primer so that you can look up the term and find the pages where’s it’s explained. That we fully intend to do, we’re just, again, swamped!
Does this mean we’re not adopting “dicking” as term? 
seriously - I’ve written whole pieces by dicking around while watching TV. I’ve also been divorced twice and I suspect that stopping Game of Thrones so I could go record some idea may have contributed.
ultimately worth it.
thank you for all this insight and these links! watching!
I think I use the term practice out of habit, learning would be a better option lol. I have a decent sense of going about learning songs, learning chunk by chunk much like what’s been said in some other posts on this thread. I was an on & off again player for years in my youth/teens & only the past 7 or so months have I bunkered down & really given this my all (cant leave the house/ cystic fibrosis patient). I’ve definitely made progress just by learning songs (24 since January) & made exercises from parts of the songs I’m learning, but I can’t help but think that my picking technique could be better. Gonna get filming some critique videos for you guys hopefully this wee 
Totally guilty of dicking around on the guitar watching the wwe network. Nothing brings good vibes like the attitude era of the 90’s & jamming songs I already know
If I’m actively trying to learn though I become like the paranoid person who has to turn the volume down in the car when driving in an area in unfamiliar with. All silence lol