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What it all boils down to really is, what is most comfortable to you and your hands.
If you look at some of the most renown "shredders" they all are doing it quite differently, EVH and Marty Friedman have a whacked out picking hand positions if you ask me, i don't know how they can play that way, but it works for them, wether it's the "right" way or not , all that can be said is they shred.
Personally, i think that the least amount of movement you expire in your right arm, elbow or wrist is the most efficient, and by logic you would be able to play fastest because you are not wasting energy/time fanning your pick hand as violently as possible to try and get the notes out.
Michael Angelo's Speed Kills Video, he describes this quite well, i found it really helped to keep a minimal movement, and a very uniform picking pattern, once you start to use your thumb and pointer finger with the pick and moving around in circles, and throw a little elbow jive in there, you start to loose it, genrally speaking.
I also remember seeing Frank Gambale video, don't remember the name it was over a decade ago, but his technique was quite good and interesting
as far as the way he aproached alternate picking, Minimal movement, and i believe he played his scales out 4 notes per string starting with an downstroke, so the last note was always an upstroke, then the next note skipping to the next string was a down stroke, so you never loose the up, down, up, down pattern so to speak.
I remember thinking that was the most efficient way by far for this, and it was a little wierd at first, but i think it is the best approach by far, just takes some getting used to if you been doing three notes per string, and trying to skip to the next string using an up stroke for so long.
Anyway, before any of all that, i recommend getting as fast and clean as you can possibly get trem picking on one string with as little wrist movement, and as cleanly as possible, then your halfway there.
Getting them left digits sync up with the picking hand, well, thats the hardest part imo, hehe.
GL
2.0mm gator for the win, rolls off the string, no floppy pick lagg.
I tried them steel picks back in the 80's Mike is talking about, considerably raised my string expenses, hehe.
If you look at some of the most renown "shredders" they all are doing it quite differently, EVH and Marty Friedman have a whacked out picking hand positions if you ask me, i don't know how they can play that way, but it works for them, wether it's the "right" way or not , all that can be said is they shred.
Personally, i think that the least amount of movement you expire in your right arm, elbow or wrist is the most efficient, and by logic you would be able to play fastest because you are not wasting energy/time fanning your pick hand as violently as possible to try and get the notes out.
Michael Angelo's Speed Kills Video, he describes this quite well, i found it really helped to keep a minimal movement, and a very uniform picking pattern, once you start to use your thumb and pointer finger with the pick and moving around in circles, and throw a little elbow jive in there, you start to loose it, genrally speaking.
I also remember seeing Frank Gambale video, don't remember the name it was over a decade ago, but his technique was quite good and interesting
as far as the way he aproached alternate picking, Minimal movement, and i believe he played his scales out 4 notes per string starting with an downstroke, so the last note was always an upstroke, then the next note skipping to the next string was a down stroke, so you never loose the up, down, up, down pattern so to speak.
I remember thinking that was the most efficient way by far for this, and it was a little wierd at first, but i think it is the best approach by far, just takes some getting used to if you been doing three notes per string, and trying to skip to the next string using an up stroke for so long.
Anyway, before any of all that, i recommend getting as fast and clean as you can possibly get trem picking on one string with as little wrist movement, and as cleanly as possible, then your halfway there.
Getting them left digits sync up with the picking hand, well, thats the hardest part imo, hehe.
GL
2.0mm gator for the win, rolls off the string, no floppy pick lagg.
I tried them steel picks back in the 80's Mike is talking about, considerably raised my string expenses, hehe.
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