Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Most people sweep this arpeggio — here's how to alternate pick it cleanly and fast with double escape wrist technique. For double escape technique you don't want to deliberately try to do anything semicircular, and you shouldn't feel anything overtly semicircular when you do it. Every student who reports this also shows speed limiting and stringhopping. It should just feel like your hand is going back and forth, fast and easy, no different compared to any other type of phrase you might play. If that's the case then why can't most people do this? This is one of those "hiding in plain sight" kind of things, where the form doesn't look like anything special and is easily overlooked. If you want to learn this stuff, please hit us up at Cracking The Code – we have an awesome team of instructors, of which I am one, we offer personalized feedback, and we're happy to help! troygrady.com/help/technique-critique
Most people sweep this arpeggio — here's how to alternate pick it cleanly and fast with double escape wrist technique. For double escape technique you don't want to deliberately try to do anything semicircular, and you shouldn't feel anything overtly semicircular when you do it. Every student who reports this also shows speed limiting and stringhopping. It should just feel like your hand is going back and forth, fast and easy, no different compared to any other type of phrase you might play. If that's the case then why can't most people do this? This is one of those "hiding in plain sight" kind of things, where the form doesn't look like anything special and is easily overlooked. If you want to learn this stuff, please hit us up at Cracking The Code – we have an awesome team of instructors, of which I am one, we offer personalized feedback, and we're happy to help! troygrady.com/help/technique-critique
