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Hi again Amid,

I am often asked by students: “Should I learn to use strict alternate picking or directional (economy) picking”?

Before I answer this question here, let me quickly explain the difference between the two terms.

Alternate picking requires you to pick using upstrokes and downstrokes, but you may NOT play more than one downstroke in a row or more than one upstroke in a row. An upstroke must always be followed by a downstroke and vice versa. This technique is used by the majority of guitar players.

Directional picking (which is also called economy picking) also uses upstrokes and downstrokes, but there are situations when you can play two downstrokes in a row or two upstrokes in a row. The former occurs when ascending 3 note per string runs, and the latter happens when descending on 3 note per string runs.

While there are a lot of guitar players who can and do play amazingly fast and well with strict alternate picking, I prefer to use economy picking for the following reasons:

When playing 3 note per string scales, alternate picking requires you to make an extra motion with your picking hand every time you cross strings. Directional (economy) picking avoids this problem by taking alternate picking to a whole new level of efficiency. The ability to perform two downstrokes or upstrokes in a row when strings are crossed on 3 note per string scales, makes the picking motion much faster and more efficient. I don’t really think of alternate picking and directional (economy) as two completely different things. Directional picking is STILL alternating the pick strokes, only in a much more efficient way.

In fact, directional and alternate picking are completely identical when playing 2 or 4 notes per string. This is because the most efficient motion in this case is achieved by alternating the pick strokes exactly.

Alternate picking is a much older concept than directional picking. Initially it was developed to avoid having to play consecutive down strokes or consecutive upstrokes only. Directional picking was developed after thinking about how to make the picking motions even more optimized and efficient in ALL playing contexts.

So, for these reasons I use directional picking and teach it to all my students. I also recommend that you learn it as well. To hear what results some of my students have achieved with directional picking, check out the playing of Mike Philippov, Zack Uidl, Chris Kalkbrenner and Angel Zamora

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Thanks,

Tom

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Perryman píše:Ahoj, chtěl bych se vás zeptat jestli u toho alternate pickingu existuje nějaké pravidlo kdy začne první drnknutí dolu anebo nahoru. Díky

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b -------------------------------------------
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D -2----------2--3--5--2----------8--5--3--2-
A -0--0-0-0-0-0--1--3--0--0-0-0-0-6--3--1--0-
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Perryman píše:Ahoj, chtěl bych se vás zeptat jestli u toho alternate pickingu existuje nějaké pravidlo kdy začne první drnknutí dolu anebo nahoru. Díky

dfyc píše: Na nácvik sweepu jsou ideální šestistrunné figury s jedním tónem na strunu.

Nero píše: To je podle mě až finále cvičení sweepingu. Podle mě je lepší začínat figurami na 2 strunách a pak postupně přecházet na 3, 4, 5 a nakonec 6 strun.

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