solos and alternate strumming

[eachann]

I've been trying to re-learn how to play guitar hero, with alternate strumming. I always downpicked only but got to a point on hard where I really need to learn how to alernate up and down picks so I started a new medium career and played everything with alternate strumming. I'm starting to get the hang of it a bit, but I have a real problem when it comes to long stretches of notes that need to be strummed up and down... most of the time it's just 3-5 notes or and then you have a break in the pattern where I can reset myself with a downpick. Sometimes though, you have an extended section of notes and I tend to get "lost" on these stretches (for lack of a better word).

The last solo on BATM (medium in this case but it would apply to all of them) is a perfect example. I start out on the solo good but by the time I get in the middle of it my two hands seem to lose any "connection" and they are kind of doing their own thing, unfortunately their own thing doesn't always relate . Like I said it's not too much of a problem when I have a short set of notes to alternate on and then I get a brief "reset" before alternating more notes, but my hands just get lost when I have a long string of notes. Anybody else have this problem, and how do you deal with it?

[eachann]

I've been trying to re-learn how to play guitar hero, with alternate strumming. I always downpicked only but got to a point on hard where I really need to learn how to alernate up and down picks so I started a new medium career and played everything with alternate strumming. I'm starting to get the hang of it a bit, but I have a real problem when it comes to long stretches of notes that need to be strummed up and down... most of the time it's just 3-5 notes or and then you have a break in the pattern where I can reset myself with a downpick. Sometimes though, you have an extended section of notes and I tend to get "lost" on these stretches (for lack of a better word).

The last solo on BATM (medium in this case but it would apply to all of them) is a perfect example. I start out on the solo good but by the time I get in the middle of it my two hands seem to lose any "connection" and they are kind of doing their own thing, unfortunately their own thing doesn't always relate . Like I said it's not too much of a problem when I have a short set of notes to alternate on and then I get a brief "reset" before alternating more notes, but my hands just get lost when I have a long string of notes. Anybody else have this problem, and how do you deal with it?

[gmriggs]

I'm in a similar situation... I just started alternate strumming less than a month ago, and while I've gotten fairly good at it, I'm still always more accurate with single strumming. I usually play through songs twice with alt strumming, and then once with single strumming, and my single strum run will always be better. I don't know if there are really any tricks to it other than to keep practicing

[gmriggs]

I'm in a similar situation... I just started alternate strumming less than a month ago, and while I've gotten fairly good at it, I'm still always more accurate with single strumming. I usually play through songs twice with alt strumming, and then once with single strumming, and my single strum run will always be better. I don't know if there are really any tricks to it other than to keep practicing

[JHetfield0816]

I don't know, on that last solo of BATM...if you get to it on hard or expert, i really recommend using pulloffs for it. It makes it so you only have to strum once at the beginning of each set of notes. Even if you can alternate strum that solo for most of it, you probably won't make it all the way through without missing if you do it that way.
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[JHetfield0816]

I don't know, on that last solo of BATM...if you get to it on hard or expert, i really recommend using pulloffs for it. It makes it so you only have to strum once at the beginning of each set of notes. Even if you can alternate strum that solo for most of it, you probably won't make it all the way through without missing if you do it that way.
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"well I guess it's better than reapers and thingys"- Riyunoa

"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character." - Arnold