Tornado of Souls diminished run

Pretty sure Marty does upstrokes on the notes before the pull offs and then a downward sweep from the b to e string. Marty seems to be a very religious DWPSer, partially due to that ultra supinated felxion he uses for his natural picking stance. Two consecutive up strokes on the same string with pull off and hammers ons is a very Marty thing. Study his playing on RIP and you will run across on patterns that pretty much have to be played that way to be played with DWPS.

Long before I ran across CTC there was a writeup on Marty’s playing I read where the writer talked about Marty using consecutive upstrokes a lot on the b and e strings.

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In “exotic metal guitar”, his first instructional video, Marty explains the basic pattern behind this lick in great detail. (he is using this and variations almost everywhere)
This definitely is two downstrokes on b- and e-string, followed by an upstroke and a pull off on the e-string. In case there are two consecutive pull-offs on the e-string both are played with an upstroke.

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