Pick stroke direction

Larry · 2019-02-02T12:48:26Z

Devin (or anyone) I'm having trouble maintaining my pick direction in a lot of situations. If the song I'm playing is straight 8th notes, or even several quarter notes in a row that are all down strokes, I'm fine. But when I add hammers or pull-offs, I start tripping up. I've tried the suggestion of continuing the pick direction after the hammer or pull-off so that I'll be going in the right direction on the next stroke that actually hits a string, and as long as I think about it, I'm OK. But once I stop thinking about it, my pick hand wants to stop and I always seem instinctively to want to make the next stroke an upstroke no mater what the tab says. Is there some exercise I can do to help with this problem or should I just go with my instinct? I concerned that if I don't get this right now, it's going to screw me up when I get to the point where I don't want to depend so much on tablature. Thanks, and I hope I explained this situation so it's not completely mud. Larry

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Jocelyn

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Hey Susan these 3 kids play faster than me....amazing! Thanks for the video. Did you see Molly Tuttle and Brian Sutton? They so well together.

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Posted : May 3, 2020 3:38 PM

Susan Wagner

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@jocelyn I think I've seen her playing with Brian Sutton. Think there's one of her and Billy Strings, too.

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Posted : May 6, 2020 7:06 PM

Jocelyn

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@shysue I’m gonna try to watch it!

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Posted : May 7, 2020 3:50 AM

Eric Reinhardt

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I am having a hard time after developing bad habits for the last 20 years. Just got to keep grinding on practice I guess

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Posted : May 7, 2020 9:42 AM

John

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@shysue Brilliant

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Posted : June 25, 2020 1:38 PM

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