I was wondering on this riff for Master Of Puppets -
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Is how do you guys play it picking wise?
Do you use strict alternate picking? Down picking? etc..
( I know the copy and pasted tab is a lil out of place, but you know what riff I mean anyway )
They use downpicking and it sounds better doing it that way but you don't have to. Petrucci alternate picked it I believe when they covered it. I could be wrong however. I'd try and do it down picked.
I think I'd alternate pick this one since I'm just not quick enough to downpick all of it. Might try to downpick all of it - Pick the loose E string and hammer on the F then downpick the A-string.
Then I'd just choose whatever works best for me.
Downstroke EVERY note, that's what this song about and that's why everybody recommends it for downstroke stamina. It is hard at the beginning but if you nail it you'll have a palm mute riff ability from hell...
Yeah, I've tried alternate picking this riff, and I cant do it up to the correct speed. So I use down picking, just alot of people when they've observed me (such as my old guitar teacher) he told me to play it using strict AP.
you should play it with downpicking- i wouldnt be able to right now, but it'd be great practise.
Downpicking all the way, that's how I do and it sounds good
(Marcus: And if it SOUNDS good, it IS good)
Metallica= all down strokes 99% of the time.
in an interview I saw, James confirms that.
My vote on the downpicking as well, it will sound more even.
My wife used to complain about me not getting enough physical exercise (ie getting fat) so I set up an exercise session playing along with a number of Iron Maiden and Metallica songs using downstrokes only (at the time, I played most everything with downstrokes). Master of Puppets was the centerpiece of that workout as 10 minutes of downstroking can really work up a sweat.
The problem was that I eventually improved in minimizing hand and arm movements that the effort wasn't nearly so taxing.
If you want to play a Metallica riff and you want it to somehow sound like the original you will HAVE to downpick everything cause this is how James plays it.
Hehe, yeah, at Metallica's speed downpicking is not really easy
James is absolutely the master of all downpicking-masters. I wonder if he ever uses Alternate Picking?
my vote is practise it with up strokes as well /no, not alternating\ just because it's a strong riff where you need lots of attack, which you should be able to achieve with ups as well, great exercise fore accentuating on odd beats (by learning to accent upstrokes)
I remember some time ago when I wanted to learn it, but I couldn't do it with downstrokes. So then I started with AP, but I thought "I ain't gonna cheat on this, can Metallica do it then I also wanna do it!".
So I marked the intro, verse, chorus and took the Speed Trainer thing on GuitarPro and started at 75% or something and went with 1% more every turn. Sat with that and when it became too hard, or my arm tensed up, I went back to 75%. I sat with that for a couple of hours for 2 days or something 'til I managed to play it fully relaxed
Don't worry, even James does not downpick everything, he also uses ap for the fast riffs like in Fight fire with fire for example, nobody downpicks this
Downpicking for Master if you want it
sounding 100%, no doubt
How long should one practice per day to increase the downpicking in general? I know this question was asked before, but what licks are best to practice? Like AP, no matter?
The answer I expected/hoped/feared. So I'm gonna choose Creeping Death and Master Of Puppets, most fun.
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