Alternate Picking (DSX)

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Hi Troy - This is a continuation of my previous TC ("I can't do RDT and it's annoying"…which turned out to not be true!). If you could, please review that history and then review the attached video. My latest assignment from the previous TC was to alternate pick a 3NPS scale across 4 strings using DSX. I practiced this assignment a lot, making slight changes and observations as I practiced. Watching the "slow" version and noting how I feel when playing the part generally, I notice that: (a) ascending sounds and feels better than descending but I'm still missing strings sometimes (or barely tapping the string) when ascending; (b) descending can feel like trudging through 3 feet of snow sometimes, especially going from the high E to B strings. And I notice in the videos that I'm entirely skipping playing a note on the B and G strings most of the time, and i’m also more broadly flip flopping from dsx to usx. I can't seem to program that out of me; this is actually what prompted the delay in my video upload from the previous TC. With that, my questions: 1. What're your thoughts generally? What suggestions do you have for me to smooth things out further? I prefer the sound of "no edge picking" but dialing in edge picking does make things smoother. My video upload shows me doing both but the issues identified above still persist regardless, so there's gotta be something more to it than that. Thanks!

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