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Megadeths riffs were way way more intricate and half the time I never bothered to persevere.
Foreclosure of a Dream
This Was My Life
Countdown To Extinction
High Speed Dirt
Peace Sells
I'm currently labouring over the Lucretia solo, at little more than 50% speed. Great piece of playing:
My band, Red For Dissent
Going to learn for whom the bell tolls first, looks easy and should sound good.
I've nailed the chords and heavier riffs. but I'm struggling to get the repetitive ones around the 9-12th frets up to speed and I'm convinced it's due to picking technique. I can play them at 80 to 90% speed using up down, but 100% is too fast, despite practicing I can't get it right, I lose coordination between my 2 hands after 2 or 3 bars.
How should this be picked, regular up down, all down, or do I need to learn some sort of economy picking?
This is the part i'm struggling with,
https://i.imgur.com/tiMlFna.png
Cheers
I also tried following the downstroke on the D string with another downstroke on the G string (essentially economy picking) but this means that the picking direction on the first note changes for each repetition. For this approach to work I'd need to hammer on from the E to the F# to allow me to start on an upstroke again.
For alternate, no matter what stroke you start on, you need a strategy to keep things working smoothly: look into upward/downward pick slanting (Troy Grady).
Moving beyond the lick, this sounds like an opportunity to practice some string crossing! Start on an up, start on a down, play all ups, play all downs, use economy (if you can get around the problem @RedRabbit mentioned), reorganise it across different strings, etc.
Whether you start on an up (u - d - u / d - u - d) or a down you can still emphasise the 3 note groups.