Picking patterns? How do you pick notes on One Sweet World

[jsgksu]

i was told by my teacher and other people that picking d u d u is better. but i think that is WRONG. after watching and playing daves songs, i find it much easier to keep a rhythm if you always do down. for instance, in the stone, i used to pick d u d u for the whole thing, even though the timing for was different for some of them (some 1/4 notes, some 1/8 ) the way i do it now, and its much easier, is to keep your right hand moving consistantly and picking the note with whatever way your hand is going. for all the 1/4 notes, its down. all the 1/8 notes its up.

so bottom line. keep your right hand in rhythm and pick based upon that.

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Intro
E:-------------------------
B:-------------------------
G:-----2-------------------
D:---------3---5-5--2-3-2--
A:-5-----------------------
E:-------------------------
    D  D   D   D U  D U D

Thats how I play it (I think, once again, Im at work, guitarless) As for only doing down strums on certain lenght notes and only up on other ones, that just osunds silly, alternative picking is very helpful sometimes, if you can play it like that and it sounds good go with it but I would not tell a beginner to learn like that at all.

you play it exactly how i do and how i explained it. notice how all the 1/8 notes are upstrokes. (the fast ones) all the D's are on the ~ and all the U's are on the `'s

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Intro
E:-------------------------
B:-------------------------
G:-----2-------------------
D:---------3---5-5-2-3-2---
A:-5-----------------------
E:-------------------------
   D   D   D   D U D U D
   ~ ` ~ ` ~ ` ~ ` ~ ` ~

Well maybe I didnt follow what you were saying but it didnt sound like thats what you meant.

[Buck23]

Interesting, when I play The Stone (check it out in the rec. & crit. forum...sorry, shameless plug ) I play that last "2" as an upstroke, so D D D DU DU U...but it seems like I'm the only one...as long as you "got the funk" - or the rhythm, the groove, or whatever it is you got, then go with what works. also, for the OSW intro, I just play all downstrokes, although thats a pretty bad habit. it just helps me keep the rhythm better.