Struggling with pull-off patterns in Synchronicity

The Synchronicity Seminar guides you through the ascending hammer-ons in it’s videos but I haven’t seen any tips about the descending pull-off patterns even though that’s half the mega-tab provided in the seminar. Also the seminar is about the picking speed and legato is introduced as a concept to help the picking speed with the idea that if you can play it with legato then you can pick it. But the whole seminar focuses on just the legato and never talks about how we reintroduce the pick into this legato playing to make it picked instead of it being legato.

Right now I have decent picking speed and the ascending hammer-ons feel very comfortable, so do ascending licks. But I am still far behind after this course regarding descending lines. I’m not expecting instant changes in my playing but this training routine seems very incomplete, and I don’t know what I’m supposed to get out of it. Am I supposed to stick with the very slow tempos until it naturally speeds up as I try to make it faster and faster for the pull-offs? Right now it is very sluggish compared to the hammer-ons and it feels like I have no control. And how and when am I supposed to reintroduce the pick instead of the legatos?

Synchronicity’s Core Concepts covers how to chunk your tremolo and begin adding fretting hand to work on hand sync on a single string. In the latest chapters cover fretting, Tommo does cover HO/PO technique quite immediately. He also mentions how much time/speed is needed-not terribly slow but you also do not need to spend alot of time with the fretting matrix patterns and get lightning quick and instead use as a testing tool to identify areas that may need more work when trying to go a little fast.

As he says throughout seminar, take easy wins to keep making progress. And Troy often states the breakthrough moments are actually the result of much trial and error problem solving and refinement. If you have good picking speed (above 170 bpm 16ths, right? insert concerned Padme) and similar speed ascending-work on hand sync with DiMeola ascending 6s. If you have an escape motion and want to cross strings-Paul GIlbert 6s may worth ago.

If your tremolo is not an easy, fast, and loud at or above 170 16ths, you will want to see the tap tests in the Pickslanting Primer