Tommo's new seminar ( [ Ссылка ] ) is full of essential ideas that make the DSX picking style functional for everyday playing across a wide array of phrases. Here's a great one. As you may know, if you're a DSX player, this means your picking motion traces a diagonal path such that downstrokes "escape" and become your string switch pickstroke. The implications of this are significant. For two-note-per-string phrases like pentatonic lines, you need to ensure that the last pickstroke on each string is a downstroke if you want to play them cleanly and quickly with this type of joint motion. No problem — you can simply start these phrases on upstrokes, and many players do indeed do this. But the positioning of the *beat* is another question. Downstroke-on-downbeat organization is a nearly universal unwritten rule in picking technique that many players attempt to follow, consciously or otherwise. And starting these phrases on upstrokes would break this. To solve this, you could just shift the timing of the lick so that the upstroke is a pickup, and the second note is the downbeat. But many of us have come to think of "starting on a downstroke" as synonymous with "placing the downstroke on the downbeat", even though this need not always be true. So instead, what Tommo demontrates here is a clever method for having it both ways. You can "start on a downstroke", AND place that downstroke on the downbeat. You can then insert a legato note and switch to upstroke-on-downbeat organization for the rest of the phrase. You can even loop the phrase with a legato note at each end, effectively flipping the lick back to downstroke-on-downbeat orientation again so you can restart it. In between, your brain will be none the wiser! As you work on fooling your brain this way, it can be helpful to make a nice swoopy downstroke on the first pickstroke as a chunking landmark for your motor system. You can see these graceful downstrokes in Tommo's clip here in slow motion, and we have also filmed them in the technique of bluegrass wizard David Grier, who employs them in exactly the same type of situation.

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