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Once I even made a little thing, sort of like a tiny archtop pickguard, and stuck it on the top. When I played the 1st string my pinky could rest on it (and I could even do rest strokes on the 1st string against it).
I use a floating right hand technique. You can see it in these videos. However for really fast lines, I switch to the Amati Schmitt/Michael Angelo Batio technique (you can see this in the The Pick Stick Demo video).
@geese_com haha I'm practicing those same triplets. Aurelien Bouly has a video on those.
That's where I got the exercise from. I did it almost every day for 10-15 minutes for 3 months back in 2020 and it improved my right hand immensely. I actually did it with two different right hand techniques. One floating like in the videos and the other more in the style of Wawau Adler and Stochelo Rosenberg where I have fingers that are touching guitar.
Oh then I found out about it when you posted it once, now I think I remember it.
Me too. What tempo have you guys got up to?
My top so far is (only) 105 bpm for clean execution.
Has me wondering whether I should change like Christophe describes above.
I think in the video I get up to around 170-180bpm before it completely falls apart. In the video, I only have the clicks on 1 & 3.
My goal is just to put it in my playing in some way. So for example today I was using it over Minor Blues. As for tempo, it varies, some days it's cooking then some it's not working at all. But you know, I think good way to go about it is whatever tempo you can play this at, you can make it usable even at high tempo songs. You adjust the value of notes to fit the song and play the portions of the phrase.
@geese_com I think in the video I get up to around 170-180bpm
Oh well, don't think my aged fingers will reach those tempos
@Buco My goal is just to put it in my playing in some way
Yes, that sounds like a good goal. I'm also working with a couple of the triplet examples in Christiaan V H's book and although I can only play the entire 4 bar phrases accurately at slowish tempos, I have been able to extract shorter phrases to include in quick bursts at faster tempo.
you can make it usable even at high tempo songs. You adjust the value of notes to fit the song.
Could you explain this a bit more, Buco?
@ChristopheCarington The reason I made the switch was I found some of the most mechanical players do the same - and assumed they're doing something right. A few examples:
Those 3 video examples certainly do make a strong case for the trailing little finger. I'd never picked up on that.