Alternate Picking Lesson by Carlos Lichman www.lichman.hpg.com.br Hi! Everybody around the world intends to have a fast picking, trying to play many notes very fast, well when I was a little boy I wanted to be Impellitteri. Well, here you can see and study some alternate picking lessons. There are 20 exercices here in this lesson. You can put them in your exercices, doing them day by day. you need to begin slow(80 bpm) I hope you enjoy! Don't forget you need to study them with distortion guitar and clean guitar! BE GOOD!! 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