Black Metal TREMOLO PICKING Tips & Advices 

I'm a typical gym bro and my forearms are quite good but my god, tremolo is burning like fire

Yes, I still use my wrist. Depends also of what kind of bridge you have on your guitar because for example I tried an Ltd (Gibson model looking) and another one that was a copy of a Gibson and both were unplayable for me because of the bridge. It was impossible to do a good tremolo picking even on a single string.

Hey man, thanks! Glad that you understood what I was saying..i was concerned about the audio and my English but seems that you guys get the message 👊🏻🤘🏻

Which model is?

@@alessiopignatti ibanez gio metallic burst

​@@alessiopignattiit's a great guitar

It all depends of which one feels better in your hand. I use the 1.0 mm, can't play well with thicker pick

@@borist. Thanks and surprisingly I'm using 1.00mm too lol

@@borist. but never do that annoying style at 2:06. When you stopped playing it sounded like the guitar was f##ing. Call me an idiot, but that's what I've heard.

I have the same problem. What helps is to hold the pick with the tip not 180° to the body of the guitar but a bit turned to the neck so that it points more to the neck. hard to describe

@@generalrodcocker1018 mate I do exactly the same now, I don t know if technically speaking it s a mistake but I don t care, the only problem I found by doing this is that sometimes my fingers that hold the pick get in contact with the strings, especially when I try to go faster

@@fabiob.7070 have you tried holding your guitar more upright it’s so freaking easier to play instead of holding the guitar more horizontally in front of the body. Hope it helps mate

thanks mate, will give it a try, especially now that I'll get a V I'll have no choice when I sit down :)@@generalrodcocker1018

@@fabiob.7070 congrats man, have fun with your new V!

Agree, and to be fair, you really can't hit more then a few strings when tremolo picking with just your wrist with your hand the way he's holding it. The way I've found to tremolo close to full chords is to keep the last three fingers open on the picking hand, planting the pinky and ring finger on the body of the guitar for stability. The wrist is held loose and the actual picking action comes from your finger and your thumb. Since you have a point of contact, when you move by your index and thumb, the wrist acts like an axis between flexion and extension. Very little adduction and abdduction.

I thought so too... confusing. Well, if he can do it that way, maybe I don't need to change what I'm doing.

I wanted to do something like discord or twitch but the channel is too small for now

It can absolutely be the bridge. For example, I can't play Gibson, I HATE their bridge and I'm so sloppy when I try to play tremolo picking (even slowly). Good looking guitar but those bridges..

@@borist. yeah, I can imagine. Which songs do you recommend to improve speed and get strong muscles for tremolo picking?

@@alcalee any song is OK. I started with Marduk because they were my first black metal band and their songs are tremolo picking from beginning to the end basically. Maybe slow the song (u can do also here on youtube) and play with it. When you see that you're able to play the whole song at that speed, speed it up then. It's like gym, it's just about coordination and muscles strength.

@@borist. I have the LTD you are talking about, and it is a metal machine that I can trem pick on like a boss... so I would imagine that is just a matter of technique or comfort. If you've been on those ibanez/Jackson type guitars for a long time, that would explain it

I wonder how much BPM is possible to reach with tremolo picking using only wrist. Do you know maybe? I would be careful with index finger movement. I was using only finger movement for picking - yes.. not even wrist or elbow.. and had some injury. Now after switch to wrist motion I am able to reach only max 120BPM of clean picking. It seems like forarm is faster, but i dont like this kind of movement because feels robotic to me.. I am a bit confused, because see some guys like Andy James that are able to play very fast using wrist only.