Alternate Picking At Slower Tempos. |
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Alternate Picking At Slower Tempos. |
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Oct 20 2016, 12:41 PM |
Hey Grappa!
As Kris said - it's very common issue. Actually if you ask many skilld players who can pick fast, they will tell you how different is meaning of word "relaxed" comparing to how we interpratate it at beginner or semi-advanced level. Alternate picking or strong legato with no picking are both a kind of "sport disciplines". You get reasonably relaxed once you learn how to manage strength and hand tension in high speed. That means constantly pushing yourself to your limits - for example at some point 90bpm wil be your limit but pushing yourself even higher, after some time 90bpm will become a relaxed tempo for you. Sam as with making push-ups. For slower tempo our right hands mechanics are slightly different due to a tonal demands. at high speeds we start to break thing appart into accents and fills, where the feels are being played softer. Fast picking is all about searching for tiniest moments to release hand tension for a while. I usually use a variation of wrist and circle picking. The faster I play, the more wrist movements I replace with circle picking....but only for fills, not for accents. With alternate picking you have to work hard to make it work, and then keep working hard to keep it. That's why I call it "sport discipline". Additional factor is how you focus on your hand shape, position, resting points. There is no "one and only" solution for this. That's why I made this lesson. If you haven't seen it yet I guess it may give you some guidence to rethink your current solutions. https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Altern...Picking-Basics/ There's a huge risk of not being able to play faster never, even with lots of practise, as long as you do not start to practise wisely, adjusting your hand and making experiments with it's placement. Like with any other part of life - making the same mistake all over again will not lead anyone to fix it. So....aside from giving honest amount of time for practise we need to constantly adjust things and put things into doubts - asking ourselfs a lot of questions "why" and being our own judge |
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Oct 24 2016, 07:12 AM |
Ben has a video about using bursts of speed for short period when practicing to increase your speed, purely because the mechanics of picking fast are different to picking slowly.
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Oct 24 2016, 01:32 PM
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Thanks for this.
I will give it a go and see how I get on.. Regards, Simon |
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