Description

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.