How to Improve Your Picking Techniuqe

Alternate Picking

What is Alternate Picking?

Alternate picking is a guitar technique in which the player alternates between downstrokes and upstrokes for every note they play. It's one of the most important techniques for metal guitar since it lets you achieve faster speeds while keeping your playing clean and effortless.

Practice Tips

  1. Start slow with A metronome
  2. Use small pick movements
  3. Keep wist relaxed
  4. Focus on clean notes before increasing speed

Some Exercises I Made

  1. Major Scale
  2. Alternate Picking Riff

Those two excercies might look simple at first but playing them cleanly at fast tempos can be quite challanging

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