like last week's #techniquetuesday vid, for this week's vid we're returning to the idea of rest strokes in arpeggios. while in the previous video the purpose was to help bring out a melody, in this exploration the rest stroke in the slow video helps provide stability and reassurance in the hand over the compound arpeggio pattern (is compound arpeggio a real term??? did i coin a phrase??? i hope so) in the spirit of honesty the fast video was really hard for me to capture this week, in part because i've totally changed how i'm playing this (the tuning of the guitar is different and now im going up to that high chord whereas before i was taking all of that down an octave), in part because i haven't practiced solo music much lately, in part because i feel physically out of shape guitar-wise right now. but in struggling to get a faster clip i feel like i learned a lot so i included it. now that that cheesy blogger confession is out of the way things observed where: the stability of the ...