TSJMajesty
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One of the songs that I'm using as a "Technique Improvement" exercise is the solo in Bark At The Moon. The part that's giving me trouble is the run-up part before that blazing 16th-note triplet ending. (Here's a link. Starts at measure 92, and everything on the 3 lowest strings is plam-muted.)
The problem I'm having is with the pick slant. When I palm-mute, the pick naturally has a downward slope. It just seems that as I try to rotate the pick to a vertical position, my palm wants to lift off the bridge, and there goes my palm mutes. So getting all that back-and-forth from string to string in that riff is literally tripping me up when I change strings, due to needing to get that downward slope pulled back somewhat for each of the up-strokes.
Oh, and if I try to hold the pick differently, kinda pulling back on that downward slope, it just feels completely unnatural. But I realize this may indeed be what I simply have to train myself to do differently. Either that, or play the song on a different guitar, like a LP, that has the bridge higher up off the top of the guitar.
Anybody else experience this, and have any tips? Maybe playing fast alt-picked, palm-muted riffs is just a whole 'nother technique that needs its own focus, along with lots of practice...?
The problem I'm having is with the pick slant. When I palm-mute, the pick naturally has a downward slope. It just seems that as I try to rotate the pick to a vertical position, my palm wants to lift off the bridge, and there goes my palm mutes. So getting all that back-and-forth from string to string in that riff is literally tripping me up when I change strings, due to needing to get that downward slope pulled back somewhat for each of the up-strokes.
Oh, and if I try to hold the pick differently, kinda pulling back on that downward slope, it just feels completely unnatural. But I realize this may indeed be what I simply have to train myself to do differently. Either that, or play the song on a different guitar, like a LP, that has the bridge higher up off the top of the guitar.
Anybody else experience this, and have any tips? Maybe playing fast alt-picked, palm-muted riffs is just a whole 'nother technique that needs its own focus, along with lots of practice...?