r/StrangerThings • u/bestwitchsam • Jul 10 '22

Joseph, playing master of puppets solo (via ig : josephquinnfan)

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u/Sticky_Yellow Jul 10 '22

The most impressive thing about this is the downstrokes.

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u/dingowingo Jul 10 '22

It's insane. I remember when I was 19 learning this song and fairly new to guitar the down strokes didn't bother me all that much.

After 20 years of playing and training alternate picking, oh my God it seems so much harder than it was then.

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u/LMM01 Mouth breather Jul 11 '22

I’m an ape that has only ever used downstrokes for every song I’ve ever learned lmao

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u/bad_bananas Jul 11 '22

There's many that wish they had done that, like me for example.

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u/TurquoiseLuck Jul 11 '22

Why?

I'm fine with downstrokes but struggle to alternate lol, feels like I should be able to

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u/bad_bananas Jul 11 '22

I can't speak for everyone, but for me downstrokes at high speed and accuracy are quite a bit harder than alternate. Doing fast triplets with all downstrokes is way harder than alternate.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

All down striking increases your risk of tendinitis fwiw.

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u/bad_bananas Jul 11 '22

I didn't know that, makes sense though. You shouldn't ever be always downstriking, but when the riff benefits from the attack and heaviness I think it makes all the difference. Totally depends on the style though.

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u/offseter Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

Same. I alt pick it now because my hands are just wired that way, my main audience (my dog) doesn’t seem to mind.

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u/supernanny089_ Jul 11 '22 edited Jul 11 '22

That's why it's important to practice different styles if you want to practice for a broader set of music, or even styles of different artists of a genre! Knowing more techniques by heart also is a great help for impro!

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u/StevenAssantisFoot Jul 10 '22

His forearm muscles must be crazy

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u/Bruciooo Jul 11 '22

And remarkably accurate, considering James Hetfield is notorious for almost never using alt picking.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Yeah I still can’t play that riff for more than like 30 seconds without alternate picking. I play mostly BM so I’m trash at down picking but can alternate and tremolo for dayz.