Solving the Mysteries of Economy Picking, Shred-Style
I’m going to focus on manipulating economy picking for the powerful execution of rapid-fire arpeggios. To get a grasp of the fundamental properties of these economy picked arpeggios, Example 1 depicts the three basic forms of simple two-string, root-3rd-5th arpeggios found in any common minor or major key (Minor, Major and Minor flat 5). For the sake of this lesson, we’ll stay in the key of Am.
