Kristofer Dahl19th March 2008Oh my! This stuff is monstuous - thanks Toni for an excellent topic and lesson!
jammer9119th March 2008This is one of my favorite techniques. Is a must do.
Trond Vold19th March 2008Nice one!
Tuubsu19th March 2008Nice exercise, should be useful for many!
mattacuk19th March 2008Tony this is so awsome !!!! fantastic work as always
Toni Suominen19th March 2008Thanks guys!!
Gabriel Leopardi19th March 2008Great lesson! Sounds very good!
Muris Varajic19th March 2008Speed!!!
Dejan Farkas19th March 2008Great
Ivan Milenkovic19th March 2008WOW! Nice Grinding lesson man
SLASH9119th March 2008Really useful
RIP Dime19th March 2008Awesome, love it.
- Toni Suominen19th March 2008
Thanks for the great comments guys!!
Danilo Capezzuto19th March 2008Great Toni, you are heavy as ever!!
Bogdan Radovic19th March 2008Great topic Toni! Thanks
Marcus Lavendell19th March 2008Great exercise Toni! You make it look so easy!!
Nick Kellie19th March 2008nicely played and important exercises!
- Toni Suominen19th March 2008
Well thanks guys!
Glad you dig it 
Carlos Carrillo19th March 2008hey toni!!!!
fantastic lesson!!!
great job!!!thanks
Nick32519th March 2008nice toni
krudtaa19th March 2008Great stuff. Cool lessons you got.
Joe Kataldo19th March 2008Heavy stuff here cool
Jerry Arcidiacono19th March 2008Love this fast picking
Hisham Al-Sanea19th March 2008nice riff Toni ..and nice Pickups -
- Toni Suominen19th March 2008
Thanks guys for the nice words!
IceBurner19th March 2008lots of Black Metal band use that technique
and they all sound alike these day cause of this technique, few of them are really original!
But there are some!---> and they are darn good!
Nemanja Filipovic19th March 2008great lesson man...
Marcus Siepen20th March 2008Cool lesson
Juan M. Valero20th March 2008ouch, it woult hurt my wrist !!!
great lesson
nikolai20th March 2008....i think my face just melted off!
- Toni Suominen20th March 2008
Wow, so many great comments, thanks guys!
David Wallimann20th March 2008Wow, that's some fast alternate picking man, put your seat belt on!
The Uncreator20th March 2008This is awesome stuff, i lvoe the old school death metal feel i get from it, great job!
- Toni Suominen24th March 2008
Thanks guys!
PassionPlay3rd April 2008Nice lesson
Is this a good speed booster? 'Cause i feel like playing way to slow
- Toni Suominen8th May 2008
Thanks PassionPlay!
This lesson should increase your speed if you practise it hard 
Guitarist1612th June 2008wow great lesson just what i have been waiting for.
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Hi folks! In this lesson we are going to look at a technique that is very used in music styles such as Grindcore and Death metal, bands like Cannibal Corpse are fond users of this kind of playing.
Then what is tremolo picking? Tremolo picking is when you play one note rapidly. It's basically alternate picking, but usually faster and you repeat the same note for X amount of times. This lesson is purely an exercise, so it isn't supposed to be very musical. Here's some things that this lesson will improve:
-Stamina of your picking hand
-Coordination of fretting and picking hand
-String skipping with tremolo picking
-Use of Harmonic minor scale
This lesson is 180bpm and we play 16th notes the whole time, so this can really help you build strength to your picking hand. We mostly play the A harmonic minor or A natural minor scale. Remember to always try and keep the motions of your picking hand as small as possible.
Bpm: 180
Key: Am
Tuning: E standard
Hope you like it! :)