The more I pick from the wrist the closer to the sound I want I get.

[Mark Wein]

I'm getting closer to the way I want to play now but it's taken a whole lot of reprogramming. This video shows a little of what I'm talking about...





I don't want to play like this necessarily but I'd like to have this kind of control.

 

[mosiddiqi]

Yup, me too. The big breakthrough (I think I've mentioned this once or twice ) was picking using index finger/thumb movement only..what Pebber Brown calls "sarod picking". That just somehow "unlocked" my wrist. Before that, people would say to me "pick from the wrist" and I'd say "How??"..'cos I just couldn't. As soon as I sped up, my arm started moving and it hurt. I thought there was something wrong with my wrist.

At the moment, I think Guthrie might be my biggest influence

 

[Mark Wein]

It is so hard to retrain muscles that have worked a certain way for decades. I started my current "quest" almost two years ago and I'm just starting to be happy with the results.

 

[paulskirocks]

Well, for the last two days, I've been noodling for hours on my new-to-me Ibby... I played from 1985 to 2010 on one electric, which has a hard tail bridge, and the knobs are well behind the bridge... So, right off the bat, as always when I've borrowed a guitar like this, I found myself throwing it sharp when resting on the bridge, and running into the volume knob... However, about 10 minutes into it, I managed to stop resting my hand on the bridge, thus no longer going out of tune... What I noticed after keeping my hand off the bridge was that I am no longer hitting the volume knob... The smoothness and ease of my picking has really improved in just the last couple days, I've noticed... I guess this configuration has taken away a crutch that I got used to over the years, but have discovered I don't need... I'm getting better!! I also continue to watch all the Guthrie Govan vids I can, and listen to his band's album a few times a week...