Reduced tension = higher stamina = tighter rhythm.

✋ Hack #2: Floating Thumb Sweeps Don’t clamp the neck. Let thumb glide lightly. Arpeggios clean up instantly.

Instead of playing the whole 16-bar phrase and stumbling at bar four, Leo isolated just three notes.

Hold your pick normally, but rotate it 15-20 degrees clockwise (if you’re right-handed). Now, slightly angle the pick so the left edge (the edge closer to the neck) hits the string first when you down-pick.