Post by thenotshredder on Feb 9, 2008 22:43:07 GMT -5
1: Any advice for playing the 5-string sweep with the A bar chord shape, that makes you barre and sweep the D, G, and B strings? I find myself barring the high E as well with that, which obviously makes for slop. Is it okay to use the right hand to mute strings that you've already passed, to keep sympathetic vibrations and harmonics from fucking you up (say, on the seventh or twelfth frets)?
2: Any advice for downwards sweeping (downwards in pitch, not in picking hand direction)? I can't get it as fast and fluid as upward sweeping, and I'm not sure why. It's as if the pick is catching on the strings, even though I'm picking pretty lightly and angling the pick. I can sweep upwards pretty damn fast on sweeps I'm comfortable with, but not nearly so well downwards.
3: You guys got any licks I should work on to clean up my multiple string crossings (I.e., more than just picking between two strings)? I'm trying to get them clean, but picking scale runs is still a bitch for me. (And by the way, my two-string picking is starting to get somewhere good, so I'm not sure why the scalar stuff is giving me so much trouble).
I really want to get to the point where I don't need the metronome any more, so that I can just sit down and get a new lick into my fingers, and have it down at a pretty good speed (180+, if we're talking sixteenths, and preferably more). I think that this semester, and, hopefully, the coming summer, will start to get me there. \m/
PS 4 fuck! Is it okay to use index, middle, and ring fingers instead of index-ring-pinky for 1-3-4-type patterns on the higher strings above the seventh fret or so? It's much easier for me to keep my hands in sync if I do that -- something about the interaction between picking and fingers keeping my pinky from getting much leverage up there. Also, my pinky is a real bitch-finger, more so than other people's, I think -- it's a lot smaller compared to the rest of my fingers than those of most guitarists. I'm going to have to find ways to work around this as it holds me back. :\
2: Any advice for downwards sweeping (downwards in pitch, not in picking hand direction)? I can't get it as fast and fluid as upward sweeping, and I'm not sure why. It's as if the pick is catching on the strings, even though I'm picking pretty lightly and angling the pick. I can sweep upwards pretty damn fast on sweeps I'm comfortable with, but not nearly so well downwards.
3: You guys got any licks I should work on to clean up my multiple string crossings (I.e., more than just picking between two strings)? I'm trying to get them clean, but picking scale runs is still a bitch for me. (And by the way, my two-string picking is starting to get somewhere good, so I'm not sure why the scalar stuff is giving me so much trouble).
I really want to get to the point where I don't need the metronome any more, so that I can just sit down and get a new lick into my fingers, and have it down at a pretty good speed (180+, if we're talking sixteenths, and preferably more). I think that this semester, and, hopefully, the coming summer, will start to get me there. \m/
PS 4 fuck! Is it okay to use index, middle, and ring fingers instead of index-ring-pinky for 1-3-4-type patterns on the higher strings above the seventh fret or so? It's much easier for me to keep my hands in sync if I do that -- something about the interaction between picking and fingers keeping my pinky from getting much leverage up there. Also, my pinky is a real bitch-finger, more so than other people's, I think -- it's a lot smaller compared to the rest of my fingers than those of most guitarists. I'm going to have to find ways to work around this as it holds me back. :\