by prometherion on May 16th, 2010

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while speed picking on guitar ,do you you move ur elbow a bit ,i play mostly with my wrist,but my wrist is kind of tightened ,pls hlp...

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by timonewcombe on September 25th, 2010

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Good question, I wish someone had filled me in on this when i was starting out. I don't know how you are playing exactly, but the elbow is bound to move a little bit if you're loose&warmed up. It should'nt be the driving force, though. To me the best way is using the wrist- not side to side wrist moves(the elbow tends to get too involved that way), but instead a rotating wrist like you're opening a doorknob. Then you tuck in your m, r, & pinky and clutch the pick not tight but firm(with your thumb joint providing resistance), using the doorknob motion to bounce back & forth for up&downstrokes. Also for leads you can maintain the same positioning while tucking your pick where it comes up from under the strings, still bouncing your wrist but keeping the muscles involved limited to the thumb and index finger as much as possible. It took me years to unlearn that tension-in-the-wrist thing, now sometimes I can literally play whatever I hear- the more limp the wrist the better. No, really...%^)
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- i think i am playing the same way as yours ...i had to experiment a lot with my right hand ..first i used to anchor my pinky ...but than i tucked that in ...that helped me a lot ..by the way how long have you been playing
  
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  by prometherion on September 26th, 2010
- Too long to be still working on technique! Man, going on 20yrs...
  
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by hallagan on May 16th, 2010
wrist, I suck at it
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by ................l on September 28th, 2010
I play mostly with my elbow now.. I have been playing for 13 years.. The first three years I played mostly with my wrist.. I didn't force myself to start playing with my elbow, it just kind of happened. So don't think too much about it.
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- the song was great u r a very good musician..and thank you very much for your advice...i am just palying for 5 yrs now....and i serously want to be a very good guitarist after 5 to 6 yrs..
  
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  by prometherion on September 29th, 2010
- Thanks for liking my song.
  It's basically just a solo lol.
  But if you want to get good you just gotta practice.
  For my first 8 years I played about 13 hours per day.
  Sometimes more.
  
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