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The amazing @Brandon Ellis stopped by on Friday with his beautiful bevy of sea foam guitars and battery of tasty phrases and techniques. It's always a thrill to sit down with players who are willing to share literally decades of learning with us, and it helps answer some important practical questions for the rest of us as we move down the same path. For example, Brandon is an expert wrist-forearm player, very similar to other amazing friends of Cracking the Code like uncle @Ben Eller and @Teemu Mäntysaari . What this means is that when playing a tremolo on a single string, this type of picking motion creates a diagonal where upstrokes go up in the air and “escape“. When you have this type of wrist-forearm blend as your picking motion, one question you'll eventually have, is what's a good way to actually “do“ the motion of economy picking? The way Brandon does this is super smooth and effective. The string changing motions are just the hand going sideways via wrist motion. But you can also see in the clo
