Alternate Picking Help!

LethalAe86TypeR · #1 07-09-2007, 02:20 AM

My picking is in need some help, I've been doing chromatics, but i need to see bigger improvments, i am taking it slow, but any exercises? Or tips, im already taking a look at stuff in shredzone.

**elcid** · #2 07-09-2007, 02:44 AM

Try to find a copy of Vai's 10 hour work out

casper777 · #3 07-09-2007, 04:51 AM

Go to www.chopsfromhell.com and buy the CD-Roms of Rustey Cooley...
Definitively great to practice alternate picking!!
I've bought all his CD roms, and I will still have plenty of hours (or months) of practice in front of me

DavyH · #4 07-09-2007, 08:35 AM

Total Guitar's shred special from earlier this year if you can get it - the full Steve Vai 10 hour workout + a number of Paul Gilbert video and audio lessons + the full For the Love of God tab. Dunno if you can find it in your neck of the woods.

LethalAe86TypeR · #5 07-09-2007, 12:56 PM

I think my biggest problems are not able to sync my hands and accuracy. I have FTLOG tab, I got PG's Guitars From Mars and Intense Rock 1&2. I have a the 10 hour workout, but it's from Ultimate-Guitar, but on the comments, someone said it was made by morello, the tab on UG.

**elcid** · #6 07-09-2007, 12:59 PM

Are you praticing the excersizes with a metronome?

LethalAe86TypeR · #7 07-09-2007, 01:02 PM

Starting to, i do stuff at 60. I know how to do the divisions in my head, like 8th 16th 32nd rhythms. I guess i need to make a practice schedule.

**elcid** · #8 07-09-2007, 01:13 PM

The metronome is the secret, you can do all the excersises you want, but without the metronome your progress will be slower and not as easy to keep track of.

LethalAe86TypeR · #9 07-09-2007, 01:16 PM

I should play on a clean amp right?

**elcid** · #10 07-09-2007, 01:18 PM

I would, but by no means do you HAVE to.

andy7jem · #11 07-09-2007, 01:47 PM

Playing clean will help you to hear any weaknesses much easier.

LonePhantom · #12 07-09-2007, 09:00 PM

Get Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock, my alternate picking improved just from the first few exercises in the video!

Jem#5150 · #13 07-16-2007, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by LonePhantom

Get Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock, my alternate picking improved just from the first few exercises in the video!

i reccomend this also. also the angle of your pick is important too. look at some vids of paul and you'll notice his pick is angled down. that's what made the difference for me, was the pick angle. also Jazz III picks helped alot too.

atimoc · #14 07-16-2007, 08:02 PM

I would recommend playing with slight distortion. Not much, just enough that it makes an unpleasant sound if you, for example, hit an open string accidentally while picking. Also, it's probably a good idea to turn delay and reverb off completely while practising, it makes the mistakes easier to hear and to correct.

Eco · #15 07-17-2007, 05:57 AM

A good execise i found for accuracy would be to learn the arps from the start of "The Glass Prison" by dream theater, but pick every note.

Play it along to a metronome starting low till you figure out the notes then move the speed up.

Its a good workout for both hands, im still trying to get to full speed with it

Theres some good exercises on the Rock Discipline video by John Petrucci.