Originally Posted by
James W
Yeah, what I have gathered from having watched his picking masterclass and studied the transcriptions that come with it, while his 'base' technique is based around the rest stroke on the downstroke and therefore an escaped upstroke, he actually does do things like cross-picking (as well as up-sweeps) and while he says he only does it in short bursts, its presence is nevertheless there, and he describes it as a way of getting more nuanced phrasing - not sure quite what he means, I just interpret it as a way of introducing more flexibility into his picking technique & lines. Anyway he evidently has absorbed these things quite a bit to the point where he doesn't have to think about it; I guess if your mind works like that that's great, but personally my mind doesn't work like that, I prefer to do economy picking of the two-way variety which allows me to do all the exercises I was doing with alternate picking but in a smoother and obviously more economical way. I prefer a more systematic and flexible picking technique rather than the downward pickslanting one which just seems limited, Cecil's workarounds notwithstanding.
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