I naturally developed the economy picking technique over the years and have just learned about slant picking recently. My biggest hurdle at the moment is playing 3 notes per string using strict alternate picking. Trying to retrain my brain. Anyone else dealing with this?
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Don’t think of it as retraining your brain think of it as learning a new skill.
Alternate, Economy and Hybrid picking are all useful skills and have their place.
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I’d also add that 3NPS lends itself to hammer ons/pull offs/slides for this very reason. The guys who do a lot of fast 3NPS stuff often won’t strict alternate pick - it just doesn’t work very well for most people. As @stitch says, different techniques all have their place
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I’m with @mathsjunky on this … 3NPS is more likely to see you playing legato - slides, hammer-ons etc.
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A good friend of mine says “The guitar is the easiest instrument to play Badly.”
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Over the years, I naturally mixed legato runs with economy picking. I worked really hard on those legato runs. lol
Then, I started reading about slant picking(upward and downward slant), to play the shredder type stuff. I’ve become more of rock/bluesy kind of player but I’m always curious to learn this type of fast picking, even if I just use it sparingly.
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I don’t play that style, although I am a huge fan of Troy Grady and have dabbled with ‘Cracking the code’. I seem to recall Troy saying that the player’s picking style (Up, Down or Double escape) does tend to dictate they lick vocabulary - if you examine what a lot of those shredders are doing then they are often using runs and licks that work with their preferred picking style and escape motion.
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