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The Trooper! I can't do it!!


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I'm depping for a band and The Trooper is in the set. I don't think I can get the stamina, it just has never been a strength of mine, literally and I'm close to giving up and playing it with a pick. I've tried very light touch and repeatedly going through it but fail halfway through!! Any tips?

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3 hours ago, ezbass said:

Nothing wrong with using a pick but, if you’d rather not, try 3 finger trills, I go: ring, middle, index, repeat.

This. Just a single movement of closing the hand, but with fingers falling on the string staggered. It does not require a lot more stamina than playing eight notes

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17 hours ago, ezbass said:

Nothing wrong with using a pick but, if you’d rather not, try 3 finger trills, I go: ring, middle, index, repeat.

This!

 

Galopping is really hard both with 2 finger plucking and using a pick, it is however really easy when utilizing 3 fingers, that is index, middle and ring finger.

 

Try practice that.

 

For me personally I found it really hard with 2 finger plucking technique, and even harder using a pick (and mind I am rather proficient with pick playing), but came easy, almost naturally, when using 3 fingers.

 

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31 minutes ago, Crusoe said:

I'll never know how Harris plays it with only two fingers.

Yeah, same. Bonkers. And his strings are massive too. He must have gone for adamantium finger implants sometime in the 80s...

I can do the 3-finger as mentioned above, and also manage to vary it so it's either 3 identical notes or 2 and then 1. I don't know about what feel they are - except that my fingers feel knackered halfway through.

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