Gallop Picking Options

[Mike RR24]

Ben,

I wanted to ask you.. When I picked the guitar I used to kind of ball my hand up as this was the most comfortable natural way for me to want to pick.

That being said I am finding that opening and hanging my fingers is allowing me to gallop pick much more successfully although it feels akward in playing Power/Bar Chords this way as I'm not used to it. When I do that it seems to create some type of balance that I was lacking before trying to gallop pick in mid air if you will with no platform of balance. I think what I need to do is learn to play the chords again with this new way of picking because I have made more progress in one night than I made in weeks picking the other way I used to.

I've heard beofre that you should not change the way you pick but use the natural way your hand wants to go but this goes againist my technical abilities. Am I making any sense here at all ?? Just trying to explain how this is working for me and if I should almost relearn my picking to be able to better pick overall. I think if I had learned this in the beginning I would not be struggling as much now.

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