Working on this pentatonic run with a more floating right hand, works great for me.
i use a downword pickslant and an angel. Pick is a Blue Chip TAD 60.
Would love to see some vids of you guys playing this run at speed with alternate picking.
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Great playing! Is this the pentatonic descending 3s lick? If so, I posted some time ago a method to play this using two positions + downward pickslanting:
Since this involves some stretching, for me it is only comfortable to play from about the 7th fret (B minor penta).
I can also play the same lick in a single position with “inside picking” up until sextuplets at more or less 100bpm, while to go faster in a single position I’d have to use outside picking + swiping.
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Yeah, that’s the same line. Nice playing!
I try to stay away from big stretches as i have small hands. It makes alternate picking harder but it is easier on the lefthand.
I know another way with same fingeringin one position but that involves a smart way of hamering on and pull off.; i can even play it faster that way.
I will post a clip of that also.
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This is a classic jimmy page lick. I play it with dwps and swiping.
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Its a classic lick, so I chicken out and play classic hammers and pull offs!! Authentic! 
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I think it sounds better that way to be honest.
Do you mean you include some hammers from nowhere when changing strings? Otherwise there will still be some groups of 1note-per-string passages.
Sorry, I was a bit quick to post - I only us pull offs.
Picking each string change. Alternate picking strokes.
I know I have used hammers before, but since doing lots of 2WPS, it feels a little strange. It sounds super smooth with the hammers if you get it right!
Tommo, yep, exactely!
With hammer ons frome nowhere, pull offs and mini 2-up sweeps.
My post was not about what sounds better but to tackle this run with alternate picking in one position at high speed.
Here’s a way to get the lick very fast and smooth. It has pull-offs Hamer-ons frome nowhere and 2-up mini sweeps. Using downward pickslant and upward on the mini sweeps. This is 16th triplets at about 135. Properly warmed up i can hit 140.
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Here it is at slow speed.
The trick is to pick very light in order to get the hammer-ons from nowhere sound equal in volume to the picked notes. It is something the great Allan Holdsworth ( RIP) uses to get certain things up to speed.
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Nice thread! Inspiring to see different ways of playing the same lick.
I do it like this:
“Miller picking”, slow and fast, 16th note triplets at 120
Apologies for the video being a bit blurry, I overestimated the amount of light in the room.
Pick used is a red Jazz III.
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Your way of doing it feels very hard for me, but after trying it for a few minutes, I can already feel the benefits of it. If I get this smoother, it will be a very useful technique.
To update from the last thread on this pattern… wait for it…
I still can’t do this very well.
Right hand is fine, left hand won’t play…er…ball. Or indeed guitar, apparently.
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is this the way you’re doing it in the original clip?
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Yes Jake, that is the alternate picking version.
There is no swiping involved, strickt alternate picking starting with a downstroke.
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Nitro, you mean the version with the hammer -ons, pull-offs and mini sweep?
Once you feel the flow of this you can play certain things very fluid at high speed.
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Also a great way!, Although i don’t like that sound from the pull-offs.
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