Tremolo picking is like the thing you practice before alternate picking. You should be able to alt pick as fast as you can tremolo pick. Trem is only your picking hand, alt requires co-ordination (obviously!)...
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thanks for helping me out and thanks for pointing out the obvious fact between tremolo and alternate picking. now you said that trem is only your picking hand, but alt requires co-ordination. well... when paul gilbert frails up and down the scales throughout the whole fretboard, it looks like he's doing tremelo picking cuz he's moving so fast but at the same time every note he picks and every note he frets is so co-ordinated that to me it just seems like fast alternate picking! so what is he really doing? is he combining the two together? and here's my real question: IS IT POSSIBLE TO GAIN CO-ORDINATION WITH TREMOLO PICKING just as well as you can with alternate picking?