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How do virtuoso mandolin players break through the "wall of strings" and play complicated lines with accuracy? The amazing Andy Wood demonstrates. Andy switches effortlessly between two distinct picking modes: a high-speed pickslanting mode with a very rapid, linear motion path, and a medium-speed crosspicking technique with a fluidly curved motion path that we lovingly call the "Pendulum Of Death". Let's take a look at how these two awesomely powerful techniques work. Interested in tablature and slow motion Soundslice examples? Get them here: troygrady.com/interviews/andy-wood-workshop
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How do virtuoso mandolin players break through the "wall of strings" and play complicated lines with accuracy? The amazing Andy Wood demonstrates. Andy switches effortlessly between two distinct picking modes: a high-speed pickslanting mode with a very rapid, linear motion path, and a medium-speed crosspicking technique with a fluidly curved motion path that we lovingly call the "Pendulum Of Death". Let's take a look at how these two awesomely powerful techniques work. Interested in tablature and slow motion Soundslice examples? Get them here: troygrady.com/interviews/andy-wood-workshop
