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But, yes, I find exactly the same, I don't understand why though, obviously to do with physiology IMO. Frustrating all the same.
Just wondering if the coordination has to be better .the point of contact and the pick stroke..when going up a scale where as with going down the string has sounded anyways by the pulloff so not so critical....i have came to the point of using hybrid up the scale and economy or legato down
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The terminology confuddlement is even worse than that. What if you string your guitar the other way up like Eric Gales or Albert King (or, for greater example relevance here, Mr. Shred, Thorsten Köhne)? Then a "down sweep" is an "up sweep"!
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
@Bloodandtears Thorsten used to post on the Racer X board when it started. Do you know him from IBreatheMusic? I miss his old website, that had so many cool pictures of his fabulously 80s custom shred guitars on it.
@Barney Exactly! I struggled watching Cormac Battle of the much-underrated Kerbdog live, what with all the heavy metal downstrokes now being upstrokes, but when I saw Köhne at the Frankfurt trade show in 1998 it really messed my head up.
Descending is far easier for me
Weird huh
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
It's so awkward feeling at first, but once it clicks it's surprisingly quick to develop. You really have to slow down and analyze what you are doing though.
Strike that previous comment I think I misunderstood.
I downward pick slant for arpeggiated sweeps that ascend in pitch. I slightly upward pick slant for arpeggiated sweeps that descend in pitch.
For scales (including pentatonics) I'm only able to do multiple (economy) downstrokes between adjacent strings that ascend in pitch and that's mainly the double downstroke thing that EJ and JB do. Multiple up stroke economy picking feels really weird and awkward to me for scales, so I think I'm the opposite of the OP.
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is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
If you rest your right elbow on the arm of a chair and form a plectrum holding shape with your hand, and then try repeating the equivalent rotations to an up stroke a few times and then a down stroke several times, you may find, as I do, that the down stroke motion seems to have more resistance in your forearm.
I would be interested to hear if this happens for others on here, or if indeed the opposite happens, it would be good research.
I believe that isolating movements to their simplest form often helps in practice, especially when analysing things.
That seems to be the basis on which Troy Grady builds his videos too.
(P.S. south paws are welcome to play too )