All your picking should be coming from the wrist dude, especially if you want to shred. It's all about relaxing the right muscles in your arm and having them in shape in the first place. Hence why you see most guitarists on stage built pretty well. Yea all the bad ass famous guitar players use their wrists, while doing chords it's understandable to use your elbow to bring your hand across all the strings in an exaggerated motion. Though when shredding the whole deal with playing fast is to economize on all forms of movment and not having to move very far, your wrist should do all the work for the picking, as for moving your hand into a workable position say you need to from the high E to the low E you can use your elbow to bring your hand up to the necessary position. This is all based off what i have learned from a few books and my own experience so use it if you find it might help.
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All your picking should be coming from the wrist dude, especially if you want to shred. It's all about relaxing the right muscles in your arm and having them in shape in the first place. Hence why you see most guitarists on stage built pretty well. Yea all the bad ass famous guitar players use their wrists, while doing chords it's understandable to use your elbow to bring your hand across all the strings in an exaggerated motion. Though when shredding the whole deal with playing fast is to economize on all forms of movment and not having to move very far, your wrist should do all the work for the picking, as for moving your hand into a workable position say you need to from the high E to the low E you can use your elbow to bring your hand up to the necessary position. This is all based off what i have learned from a few books and my own experience so use it if you find it might help.
All your picking should be coming from the wrist dude, especially if you want to shred. It's all about relaxing the right muscles in your arm and having them in shape in the first place. Hence why you see most guitarists on stage built pretty well. Yea all the bad ass famous guitar players use their wrists, while doing chords it's understandable to use your elbow to bring your hand across all the strings in an exaggerated motion. Though when shredding the whole deal with playing fast is to economize on all forms of movment and not having to move very far, your wrist should do all the work for the picking, as for moving your hand into a workable position say you need to from the high E to the low E you can use your elbow to bring your hand up to the necessary position. This is all based off what i have learned from a few books and my own experience so use it if you find it might help.
