economy picking

What is economy picking? Is a hybrid of sweep picking and alternate picking, economy picking involves using alternate picking except when changing strings. You can try played and in alternative to see the diffrence, no only in felling but and in to sound.

Its hard to be accurated sometimes in this kind of exercises, i try this three to be more easy, Relax your wrist and fingers and listen clear what you play, we don't want noise.

Again relaxing is the key.

Sweep picking

What is a sweep picking? Sweep picking is like you play two or more notes like a chord but it sounds only one each time. Some examples start with up picking instead for down, be careful.

Always think sweep sounds and fell better than alternative pickings.

Here some nice Licks, if you do these exercises day by day you will impress how fast your style will change.

metronome from 80 to 140 ( 180 for more extreme)

This one is three notes by beats

In these exercises, may you need to move and your hand with the wrist. Do small movement.

Here is a classic exercise, in time i will plus some more like this

Legato extreme

Some exercises from the best of the kind.

 Put your metronome low, increase each time and see how fast you can go.

Don't be scary! Be carefull in picking, use sweep!

Legato Exercises

What is a legato?
Legato is to play more than one note, picking only one, with this technique the sound is smoothier and softer. You can play a legato picking one note and play all the others by hitting the fret, without picking. Maybe you want to combined this exercises with this one(important exercises), will help you increase your finger strength .
The notes played with legato seem with the black line above them.

Play the exercises without an amp, if legato sounds clean, it will sound cleaner when you add an amp. Take your time in last one.

There is some awsome licks here! 

metronome up to 160 (for megadeth fans up to 196)

 

be careful in picking, is down, up, up,down,down!

The picking is up,up down,up,down,down et.c.

 use your amp for this one:

A bit more difficult here. Be careful with your metronome, raise only five beat each time.
metronome up to 140 (160 for more extreme)

And some nice licks from songs ;)

Speed Up

You can check and the alternative picking for speed.

What i must do to increase the speed of my playing?

Speed needs time and speed needs slow playing. Every technique and every exercise need their time, you can't learn all these together.

If you want to play too fast there are three tips:

1) Relax

2) play by making a small corner in your pick and not playing parall to the strings

3) play the same way whether you play slowly or quickly, do not change according to your playing speed.

You must feel comfortable and play slowly to begin with warm up
(There is some amazing licks here)

metronome: up to 180.

Try to adapt before increasing the metronome.Be carefull when change strings.

metronome to 60-140 (and 160 if you want)

Alternative exercise

What is alternative? Picking strictly down and up the string. Pick up your pick with your first finger (index) and thumb, and picking down and up with slow movement. You can try to give a little angle to your pick for smoothier playing.

The first three examples are some classic exercises. Always play slowly enough to be sure of the accuracy of alternative picking!

metronome for beginners: 60-150

metronome for others: up to 180

If you're new to this kind of exercises, that will take a few days to adjust, you can start playing two notes per beat. Such lick is very common in rock and metal.

metronome for beginners: 60-100

metronome for others: up to 140

Just be careful in the last beat and accurate. You will learn to change tempo as you play.
metronome for beginners: 60-100
metronome for others: up to 160 

Basic Exericses

Here are some of the basic exercises for beginners, always playing with metronome slowly enough. If it is necessary, you can play two notes per beat for start.
You can play this exerices while you see movies, you will need less one hour per day.

More advanced players can try to increase their speed.

Learn first each exercise and then use metronome. Use all your finger:

Begginers: 60-100 

Advanced players:100- 140

In this example be careful to be exactly in the beat and don't miss the change position. Don't forget alternative picking as the tab says.

Begginers: 60-80

Advanced players: 80 - 140 (160 for more extreme)

These two are a bit  different. Use sweep picking(as show in tab) and every time must sound only one note, take your time to sound right.You can stop the noise from the wrong strings with your right hand or lifting a finger on the string when you play the next string.

Begginers: 50-70

Advanced players: 90- 140 (160 for more extreme)