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Always start your alternate picking sequence with a downward picking motion. Look through your musical pattern that will use alternate picking. Look at the MUSIC NOTES, not the TABS. Are the smallest notes eighth notes? Are they quarter notes? Or are they sixteenth notes?
Getting this information now will determine how you use alternate picking techniques in a manner that will help you get the most out of your speed guitar picking riffs.
If you look ahead and find that the fastest types of notes are sixteenth notes, then you will DOWN pick all single eighth notes, and ALTERNATE pick sequences of sixteenth notes in a row, using a DOWN pick on the down beats and reserving the up pick motion for the "in between" beats.
