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Melodic Metal Picking Exercise

This is a follow up of a video I posted recently. It's a nice melodic exercise which I use for training downpicking and alternate picking. We start with quarter notes at 160 bpm, we progress to palm muted eight notes at the same speed, and then we switch to alternate picking triplets. Speed will then increase to 180 bpm and finally 200 bpm. I have to admit this is quite a challenge for me, I'm still struggling in the triplets part, but that's why I came up with the exercise to begin with! Try it yourself and let me know about your progress in the comments! The chord progression is the following: F#5 | F#5 | G5 | G5 | E5 | E5 | F#5 | A5 F#5