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http://www.justinguitar.com/en/TE-004-MinimumMovement.php
The laws of muscle memory are - it takes twenty perfect goes to undo every imperfect attempt, so never getting it wrong in the first place is the best way to go and why speed is a by-product of accuracy.
There's another thing, I think this was something I observed when working through Troy Stetina's speed book - are your fingers flapping about because they're keeping time for you? Are you timing the outward journey of each pinky and it's return to be where you need it... play at different tempos and see if this is the case... if your finger is simply a thing that presses down the timing has to come from elsewhere but is a habit that can be aquired.
Also there's an element of showmanship having impressive waggly fingers.. but it's better to ditch it
Stuff like Justin's exercise above and the Spider exercise (which he showed me) are really good at crushing flappy fingers.
Next thing - do you need to get rid of it? Depends on you. Django Reinhardt played with only two fingers so anything is possible and can be musical - just figure out honestly if it's working for you.
I've watched Guthrie park his little finger behind the neck for some faster passages.. all this 3NPS and using the pinky thing is MI convention and of limited use.
This chap's mantra seems to be do it slowly, watch closely what you are doing and do it right.
Easy for him to say, but I can see his point re muscle memory.
Thanks guys. I'm suffering from exactly what Justin describes, but just my pinky. I've always been a 4 finger player but obviously I've not needed to be super accurate until now.
I'll give this a few days and report back. Thanks for the replies guys.
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Ahem!
I did about 20 minutes of this last night spread over a couple of hours... I've already noticed a difference. I think it's only focussing on that single aspect of technique that has started to yield results.
Slowly, slowly is the key.. If I go too fast I start flapping again... like I'm playing a Quo song.
Anyway, thanks for all the input.
He reckoned an increase of 5bpm a week max