I have been grinding and grinding and drilling and drilling and drilling and just cannot nudge my speed even my a single bpm over 100. I can tremolo really fast but for some reason, when actually playing out the tune, I cannot play anything cleanly past 100bpm (16th notes). I know the notes like the back of my hand, so this is really the song that I am using to drill my picking technique and to try to increase my speed. The one song I have played more than any other is Beaumont rag. I have transcribed a lot of stuff and have practiced some songs like, literally thousands of times. But to me, that technique is eerily similar to string hopping and I am having trouble identifying the line between the two. I guess that means I need to use the double escape or “cross picking technique”. The fiddle tunes are what they are and they have to be alternate picked. As this forum is well aware, bluegrass is not a style where you can chose uwps or dwps and then plan out your licks by organizing a certain number of notes per string. ![]() I am transcribing every Bryan Sutton fiddle tune that I love and every Tony Rice break I can find. I am an intermediate player who has been playing casually on an off for 15 years but only became really serious in my devotion to become great 4-5 months ago.
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