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What you are doing there is cross picking and that's a hell of a skill to get right but I like what you've done,sounds good.
p.s. post the tabz!
https://i.imgur.com/lq1uc2g.png
First thing I noticed was your inclination to ascend across strings using an alternate approach but to descend by using a sequence of upstrokes...only, when you do apply the same stroke twice, it looks like multiple picking actions rather than a single action...it's not sweeping/economy picking: you're wasting time and energy when could just be lazily dragging the pick.
More trivially, there seems to be a mix of downstrokes and upstrokes landing on beats. I think this kind of thing can be more snappy and easier to keep the timing sharp if the downstrokes are synchronised with the beats. Not a hard and fast rule, of course.
Also, there's a change in the arpeggio shape for the final two bars...suddenly you've got a string to skip...you could rearrange this to keep things consistent and more etude-like
I think you're a really fluent player who just needs to take a piece like this and ask yourself what you want the strategy to be, e.g. alternate with a bit of legato at either end...full on sweep style...or a mix (similar to how you played it in the clip but taking the first paragraph into consideration).
I find alternately picking across five or six strings a bit uncomfortable but it's something I'm working on at the moment. Here's another exercise with a strict AP approach from Paul Davids:
Yes that's thr tab. There's a video of a guy playing it super fast, incredible. Think I'm upto about 180bpm. It feels so fast my brain can barely keep up with remembering what thr next note is, but watching thr video it actually looks fairly slow bizarrely.
Maybe try moving it a little towards the center of the bridge so it is equal so no over stretching ..also maybe less movement ..
I find ..I don't... if your the same I can pick well on the bottom 3 strings but then I could sometimes miss on the higher strings ..I found that the pick is going across the strings in a curve so as well as a different tone on the top strings it also places a different demand on the pick ...
That being said, I wouldn't pick the above, I'd just sweep/hammer/pull my way through it
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Some general advice,
First get the motion right on a single string. Then you can figure out how to take it across strings. It feels weird at first
The riff from Bark at the Moon by Ozzy Osbourne is a good exercise with the palm muted pedaling on the A string. Palm muting should be easy when you have the right grip and movement
The original is sweep picked as noted from 0:44 on the metal guy's video, which also shows the pick directions at the bottom of the video. I think that's the only way it's possible to get close to the speed he plays it.
Not that I can play it yet and it's been driving me fxxxing nuts, and highlighted how crap I am at sweep picking. I might come back with a video if I ever get close - maybe in a year or so
I thought i'd hit my limit when i got to 160bpm, but i revisited it every day for a week, and each evening, initially set the metronome faster than I could play it and tried to keep up but fluffing half the notes, then winding the metronome back to my target level and finding i could do a bit faster than the day before. Think i got to 190 or so before I got too fed up lol
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