Alternate picking speed, an honest conversation

[Jesse]

I think I learned speed picking by just playing the beginning to the solo from "Play with Me" (Extreme - Nuno) over and over and over again. It's so easy and it sounds like you know what you're doing!

[LGibanez]

Cool solo, never heard that before

[Jesse]

That's one of the most difficult solos I have committed to memory, grew up idolizing nuno

[saltysidedown]

IDK if its just me (probably is) but I can't follow left handed player tutorials at all even though I'm a lefty. Maybe it's because most people I've learned from were right handed and its natural to follow that way. Is anyone else like that?

Totally agree

[LEFTISRIGHT]

I am a big fan of alternate picking and Al Di Meola. I think I mostly go wrist shaking but I am not blazing fast at it.

Google sarod picking and a guy Pebber Brown, has some excellent tutorial videos on this subject.

[LEFTISRIGHT]

I am a big fan of alternate picking and Al Di Meola. I think I mostly go wrist shaking but I am not blazing fast at it.

Google sarod picking and a guy named Pebber Brown, has some excellent tutorial videos on this subject.

[superheavydeathmetal]

That's one of the most difficult solos I have committed to memory, grew up idolizing nuno

Ha! You grew up idolizing him, and I hadn't heard of him until last November when I saw him during the Generation Axe tour!

I too use Jazz III's- Jazz III Tortex's to be more specific.

I'm using Jazz III Ultex

It's funny you guys say that (over a year ago, haha). I had never heard of that pick until just a few days ago when I just happened to see this YouTube video that came up in my recommended videos list:



This is all very interesting and new to me because I have always tried to pluck the strings with the pick completely flat. I remember, early in my playing days, I figured out that angling the pick made playing easier, but it dulled the note. The note was tremendously less crisp and pronounced when angling the pick. So, I just figured it angling the pick was bad form and no "real" guitarists do it, and I never gave it another thought. Now, maybe 20 years later, I am learning that I was completely wrong!