I’m depressed coz I can’t play Master of Puppets

roberty

flying_pie said:

One last thing to mention is another riff that's good to help build up technique is 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden.

It's still fast but not as bad as MOP yet still has the mute-mute-open pattern that MOP uses

Thread from the dead. The Maiden song a good tempo just had a listen

Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne helped my alternate picking massively. I had to correct my technique to do it well, and once I'd done that my overall control over the instrument improved (my playing got worse before it got better though as I incorporated the new picking style it into my general playing)

I think what I'm trying to say is, it's not a race to X BPM, but getting there (or part of the way there) gradually will have a halo effect on the rest of your playing if you do it right