I think alternate picking requires a string shift, not skip, shift… one string to the next.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hYBjkaP7t8g
Not an excuse, but I was drunk af posting whatever I posted.
@kgk
Sorry, I’m not sure that I understand the above.
I think that DBX is true general-purpose alternate picking, meaning that one can hit strings on both upstrokes and downstrokes.
I view the single-escaped techniques as enabling alternate picking in certain simplified cases (even nps, etc.), but not always. In particular, 1nps scenarios can create a lot of difficulty, and sometimes there is a work-around, but not always. I suspect that even Troy can’t play bluegrass with singe-escaped techniques. (We should test him!)
This has been confusing to me, mostly because I learnt guitar when alternate picking was meant to be on different strings, not a single string.
The single string verion was ,as it were, common sense.