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It's just practice and time spent. One thing I used to do was to add three minutes of straight downpicking during each practice session and bumping the metronome up accordingly as improvements came. As far as Master of Puppets, you can practice by playing along to one of the guitar tracks or song videos on YT at regular speed to push yourself and then go at it again,but decrease the speed to 50% on said video - if that's too slow, there are also tracks slowed to 200, 190, 150 bpms, etc.
Thanks, I think I'm doing it wrong....because my right hand is tired after 3 minutes of down picking
Thanks, I think I'm doing it wrong....because my right hand is tired after 3 minutes of down picking
Interesting. For the first year ofplaying guitar...I didn't know you could alt pick. So I downpicked every note. I was playing solos all downpicked...yeayngwiemalmsteen...and wondered how he picked so fast.
For me the hardest part with downstrokes is not the actual downstroke as much as the movement of the pick back to the starting point. That's the part where I lose time, I think, so I practice by playing upstrokes, but keeping the angle of the pick the same I would when playing downstrokes.