Alternate Picking + Hybrid Picking Run

Hey - I thought I’d just share this little run - dead easy, chimpanzee simple (probably why I stumbled onto it, gotta make the best of what you have)

Anyways, the CTC stuff that’s going in here is DSX (downstroke escape) and when I normally play I am a bit more pronated, but I’ve learned to supinate just a bit to get a mute for this occasion. Intervallic-ally it’s a R 2 3 with the 4 being a plucked note, and a small “rest” programmed in to not only buy some time to reset the starting pickstroke. It’s easy to do, and dovetails nicely with the rest of the “metronomic rock” vocab in my opinion.

In the video I applied it to D Harmonic Minor, but the basic concept is this;
U D U Hybrid pluck
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—1—2—3---------

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That kind of rhythm-oriented licks is my favorite, and you’re getting a fantastic tone while playing that run!

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