Pickslanting Primer

USD $99.00

The Pickslanting Primer is Cracking the Code’s comprehensive guide to developing clean, accurate picking technique.

It is evidence-based, derived from our groundbreaking slow-motion interviews with celebrated players.  The Primer is the essential instroduction to Cracking the Code concepts like escape motion and pickslanting, which practically redefined how picking technique is understood, studied, and taught.

The techniques in the Primer are continually tested and updated through extensive Technique Critique teaching with awesomely dedicated learners from around the world.

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The Pickslanting Primer is Cracking the Code’s comprehensive guide to developing clean, accurate picking technique.

It is evidence-based, derived from our groundbreaking slow-motion interviews with celebrated players.  These interviews revealed, in some cases for the first time anywhere, the remarkable mechanical adaptations that great players make to get from one string to another with a pick.  In doing this work, we standardized concepts like escape motion and pickslanting, which practically redefined how picking technique is understood, studied, and taught.  If you’ve heard these terms in use, they were created here.

The techniques in the Primer are continually tested and updated through extensive Technique Critique teaching with awesomely dedicated learners from around the world.  In the Primer you’ll learn about:

  • Unlocking your true maximum efficiency and speed
  • Synchronizing your picking and fretting hands
  • Using escape motion for clean string changes
  • Joint motions and their unique capabilities
  • The influence of mechanics on musical vocabulary and improvisation
  • Famous players and how their techniques work
  • Mechanics for specific musical styles, from bluegrass to metal

For detailed section and lesson listings, for the Pickslanting Primer, you can browse the Primer itself right on the site. And note that when you buy the download product, you’ll be able to view all the videos and musical examples here on the site, too, for added convenience.

The Pickslanting Primer is updated continually and those updates are free for life, no matter how long ago you purchased your copy, and no matter what price you paid for it.

Note that Primer purchases do not include Technique Critique evaluation by the Cracking the Code teaching staff.  You’ll need a subscription for that, but you can simply sign up for a month whenever you’re ready for that evaluation, using your existing Cracking the Code account.

Here's an overview of what's included with the download. For more detail, check out the platform page!

Getting Started

Title
Getting Started With The Pickslanting Primer

Choosing A Pick

Title
Choosing A Pick With The Rule Of Roundness

Choosing A Pick Grip

Title
Choosing A Pick Grip

Core Concepts

Title
Chapter 1 - Alternate Picking
Chapter 2 - Stringhopping

Motion Mechanics

Title
Chapter 1 - Identifying Wrist Motion
Chapter 2 - Identifying Elbow Motion
Chapter 3 - Identifying Forearm Motion
Chapter 4 - Identifying Finger Joint Motion

Testing Your Motions

Title
Chapter 1 - Testing Your Speed
Chapter 2 - Testing Van Halen-Style Wrist Motion
Chapter 3 - Testing Di Meola-Style Wrist Motion
Chapter 4 - Testing Elbow Motion
Chapter 5 - Testing Forearm Motion

Escape Motion Fundamentals

Title
Chapter 1 - The Problem of String Switching
Chapter 2 - Single Escape Motion
Chapter 3 - Double Escape Motion
Chapter 4 - Circular Escape Motion
Chapter 5 - Joint Motions and Escape

Escape Motion In Use

Title
Chapter 1 - Switching Strings With Even-Numbered Groupings
Chapter 2 - Odd-Numbered Groupings With Double Escape
Chapter 3 - Escape Motion Picking Styles

Escape Motion And Pickslanting

Title
Chapter 1 - The Garage Spikes Problem
Chapter 2 - Pickslanting And Escape motion
Chapter 3 - Pickslanting vs Edge Picking

Primary Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - What Is Primary Motion?
Chapter 2 - Primary Motion And Speed
Chapter 3 - Primary Motion And Musical Vocabulary
Chapter 4 - Speed and Learning New Motions

Primary Motion Tests

Title
Chapter 1 - Determining Your Primary Escape
Chapter 2 - Evaluating Primary Escape Test Results

Choosing A Technique

Title
Quick Start Guide To Choosing A Technique

Evaluating Your Technique

Title
Chapter 1 - Efficiency And Physical Effort
Chapter 2 - Efficiency And Speed
Chapter 3 - Efficiency And Loudness

Techniques By Player and Genre

Title
Chapter 1 - Emulating A Specific Player
Chapter 2 - Picking For Rock And Metal
Chapter 3 - Picking For Jazz
Chapter 4 - Picking For Bluegrass
Chapter 5 - Picking For Gypsy Jazz And World Acoustic
Chapter 6 - Picking For Classical Mandolin

Introduction To Tremolo

Title
Starting With Tremolo

Reverse Dart Wrist Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - What Is Reverse Dart Thrower Motion?
Chapter 2 - The Reverse Dart Pickstroke
Chapter 3 - Reverse Dart Form
Chapter 4 - Managing The Other Fingers
Chapter 5 - Testing Range Of Motion
Chapter 6 - Pickslanting For Double Escape
Chapter 7 - Motion Tests On The Guitar
Chapter 8 - From Tapping To Picking
Chapter 9 - Tall Mouse Speed
Chapter 10 - Improving Wrist Speed
Chapter 11 - Improving Wrist Endurance

Forearm-Wrist Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - What Is Forearm-Wrist Motion?
Chapter 2 - Anchoring, Grip, and Pickslant
Chapter 3 - Performing FW Motion
Chapter 4 - The Rest Stroke
Chapter 5 - Muting
Chapter 6 - The Tracking Mystery
Chapter 7 - Flexed Form
Chapter 8 - Noise Control
Chapter 9 - FW Motion Smoothness

Forearm Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - Forearm Rotation

Yngwie Malmsteen

Title
Chapter 1 - Downward Pickslanting
Chapter 2 - Building Speed with the Six-Note Pattern
Chapter 3 - Switching Strings
Chapter 4 - Changing Direction
Chapter 5 - The Black Star Lick
Chapter 6 - The Volcano Pattern
Chapter 7 - Scalar Sweeping
Chapter 8 - Arpeggios
Pickslanting Primer - Yngwie Style Clips.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Yngwie Style Clips - Slow.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Yngwie Style Clips - Tablature - GPX.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Yngwie Style Clips - Tablature - PDF.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Yngwie Style Clips - Tablature - GP.zip

Eric Johnson

Title
Chapter 1 - The Five-Note Pattern
Chapter 2 - Pentatonic Sweeping
Chapter 3 - Five Notes Ascending
Chapter 4 - Pentatonic Sixes
Chapter 5 - String Tracking
Chapter 6 - The Straight Pentatonic Scale
Chapter 7 - Classic Fives
Chapter 8 - Pentatonic Pickups
Chapter 9 - Neoclassical Fives
Pickslanting Primer - EJ Style Clips.zip
Pickslanting Primer - EJ Style Clips - Slow.zip
Pickslanting Primer - EJ Style Clips - Tablature - GPX.zip
Pickslanting Primer - EJ Style Clips - Tablature - PDF.zip

Strunz & Farah

Title
Chapter 1 - Ardeshir's Upward Pickslant
Chapter 2 - Ascending Sixes
Chapter 3 - Ascending Eights
Chapter 4 - Rules of Upward Pickslanting
Pickslanting Primer - Strunz and Farah Style Clips.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Strunz and Farah Style Clips - Slow.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Strunz and Farah Style Clips - Tablature - GPX.zip
Pickslanting Primer - Strunz and Farah Style Clips - Tablature - PDF.zip

John McLaughlin

Title
Chapter 1 - The McLaughlin Four-Note Pattern
Chapter 2 - Two-Note-Per-String Patterns
Chapter 3 - John's Upward Pickslant
Pickslanting Primer - John McLaughlin Style Clips.zip
Pickslanting Primer - John McLaughlin Style Clips - Slow.zip
Pickslanting Primer - John McLaughlin Style Clips - Tablature - GPX.zip
Pickslanting Primer - John McLaughlin Style Clips - Tablature - PDF.zip

Pick Design And Function Reference

Title
Chapter 1 - The Classic 351
Chapter 2 - The Jazz III
Chapter 3 - The Big 346
Chapter 4 - Gauge
Chapter 5 - Material And Tone
Chapter 6 - Chirp
Chapter 7 - Abrasion

Pick Grip Reference

Title
Chapter 1 - Trigger-Style Grip
Chapter 2 - Pick Point
Chapter 3 - Grip Exposure
Chapter 4 - Thumb Overlap
Chapter 5 - Extended Trigger Grip
Chapter 6 - Angle Pad Grip
Chapter 7 - Trailing Edge Grip
Chapter 8 - Middle and Three-Finger Grip
Chapter 9 - Supporting Fingers

Pick Attack Reference

Title
Edge Picking
Angle Of Attack

Dart Thrower Wrist Motions

Title
Chapter 1 - What Is Dart Thrower Wrist Motion?
Chapter 2 - Reverse Dart Thrower Mechanics

Identifying Wrist Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - Identifying Wrist Motion
Chapter 2 - Identifying Di Meola Wrist Motion
Chapter 3 - Identifying Stern Wrist Motion
Chapter 4 - Identifying Gilbert Mixed Escape Wrist Motion
Chapter 5 - Identifying EVH Wrist Motion
Chapter 6 - Identifying Dart-Thrower Wrist Motion

Wrist Mechanics

Title
Chapter 1 - Wrist Mechanics Explained
Chapter 2 - The Clock Face Model
Chapter 3 - Clock Face USX
Chapter 4 - Clock Face DSX
Chapter 5 - Clock Face DBX
Chapter 6 - Clock Face Stringhopping

Identifying Forearm Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - Identifying EVH Forearm Motion
Chapter 2 - Identifying Gypsy Forearm Motion
Chapter 3 - Identifying Aldrich Forearm Motion

Forearm-Wrist Reference

Title
Chapter 3 - The Downstroke Sweep

Identifying Elbow Motion

Title
Chapter 1 - Identifying Moore Elbow Motion
Chapter 2 - Identifying Wylde Elbow Motion

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