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Why zoom in on the stationary fretting hand when you are demonstrating right hand picking technique lol
I prefer this one
Given what we now know about picking, the advice of "start off slow and build up" is redundant. The movements your hand make when playing slow are completely different than when you're playing fast. You're better working on things at moderate speeds and once you have the movements down worry about cleaning up your playing.
It's best to work on trem picking on one string, to build up some kind of speed that way, then work on simple patterns, like the six note Yngwie pattern, on one string. This will get your hands locked together. After that you can then move on to playing patterns across strings and work on getting your hands synched up together when changing strings.
However, there is another problem and that is changing strings. You have to work out if you're an upward pick slanter or a downward pick slanter. Whichever one of these you are will greatly affect the orientation of your lines and if you're better changing strings after a downstroke or up stroke. Once you work this out, you are half way there and your speed will increase very quickly.
Also, I get benefit from practicing legato at slow controlled speeds with defined rhythmic patterns (ie semiquavers or semiquavers triplets), as a supplement to what I often do with legato, which is to float over the beat.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Iv actually seen guitarists that can pick very quickly but not good at all at intermediate speeds ...as you say each way requires a different technique and in order to manage this we really need to cover the slight differences....that's just my opinion btw !