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If you have watched any Cracking the Code, you have no doubt heard about pickslanting. But “slanting the pick” only works when the picking motion matches the pickslant. It is absolutely possible to do one and not the other, and this is where things go wrong.
Pickslanting vs Escape Motion: What’s the Difference?Pickslanting is really a two-part system: diago...
Do you have trouble synchronizing your hands? Is your picking slower than your fretting? Is your fretting slower than your picking? At Cracking The Code we hear these complaints daily. And our response is the same each time: How do you know? Without a rigorous plan for testing and streamlining both hands, it’s impossible to know why your playing sounds uncoordinated, or how ...
Our latest lesson tackles an incorrect assumption at the core of one of the most commonly repeated pieces of musical practice advice of all time: Go slow and get all the notes right. How could this possibly be bad advice?
Notes versus TechniqueHistorically, when we speak about practice perfection, we’re usually thinking about the correctness of the resultin...