Hey everyone, I’ve been trying to practice inside picking but I’ve hit a problem whereby I do my downstroke on the bottom string, then as I change direction to hit the upper string again, I end up hitting the bottom string again on my way up, leading to a very sloppy sound. Would anyone happen to know how to solve this? It really only happens when I try and play fast, because at slower speeds I have more time to “clear” the bottom string, if that makes sense.
Hopefully this diagram would help
Your picking is too flat across the plane of the strings. Try pulling the upstroke up and away from the strings a tiny bit to give you room to clear the string on the way to the next one.
Yea. I’ve by no means mastered it, but pick slanting can help here, which, IME, needs to be incorporated into a unified fluid motion, and often needs to be learnt as a whole new thing because we all often have our own natural slant to which we need to add both the other slant and the ability to control which we’re using at any time.
Easiest way to solve for this is to change pick direction. So when you reach the last string, skip that down stroke and do it (then the next string) as an up stroke. Of course you could also do what you’re doing in the pic but it takes more precision and movement. Inside picking is the worst - https://youtu.be/RRufj_z9Hos
So if I’m understanding you correctly, you mean I should be picking from the outside of the two strings instead of in between them, right?
