Alice in pointy 1.0 mm

I took an advice from one of those free online lessons for arpeggios yea. recommended i use a hard pick no less than 1 mm with a pointy tip. Now before this i was using the dunlop delrin 0.4 mm as my main one. So this new Alice (yea they didn't have pointy dunlop brand picks >.> ) 1.0mm pointy tip pick was like completely different from any other Ive tried before. At first i bought the small sized one that was similar to the dunlop jazz 3, unfortunately i didn't like how it was hard to hold on to because i was used to big picks by then. So went back and bought the normal sized one. And Ive been saying this for a while now, but i have to say it again. This is the best pick Ive ever used O_O.

Suddenly I could glide from string to string almost effortlessly, the flexible pink one I used before also glided but had an unpredictability to it and thus made fast playing hard on it. This new one was rock solid but just as smooth.

I love this pick, perhaps the only thing better than this would be the dunlop ultex sharp 1mm, but well lets just wait and see, Id be getting that in like a week, its not available here after all.

Now lets see, a progress report, by now i can play chords and three string arpeggios and some other intermediate stuff perfectly at moderate speed. Define this "moderate" as...well say Yngwie malmsteen is super fast almost always, ppl like alexi and gus g are fast on most of their songs, kirk hammet usually plays moderately fast...below that is me. At fast speeds I usually bump extra strings either with the pick or my left hand or screw up the fingering pattern or melody, so too sloppy to actually play the faster or harder stuff.

Its all right I suppose, Ive changed my picking style like three times this month not to mention the pick and the string action. So I am always having to adjust to these changing factors.

Reason Ive been changing picking style is I am still having problems muting out all the strings without muting the string I am currently playing on, and this gets harder with harder pieces of music. Ive only begun mastering the right hand but at least the left hand isn't giving me so much trouble as before. As in I can play for longer without cramping and I can stretch around a lot more than before.

Anyways I am going to learn a couple more songs to play along to. Playing along is more demanding than just playing bits of music for practicing. And its easier to follow compared to a metronome. Obviously more fun to practice too. Most importantly I need to reduce my sloppiness and increase accuracy and this is the best thing I can do to improve that. Play note for note behind a good song xD

Thats it for now, back to practice