Originally Posted by: David BereutherThere are also some players who like to use so calles "directional picking". In this case you would go from the frist to the second string directly with 1 single downstroke, so in this case you would really hit two strings with one motion, like sweep picking (so you don't hit them at the same time but after each other, just not with outside picking).

I could go into some further detail about this, if you have problemes maybe first practice the outsite picking, because it is more basic.

David

Yes, also known as economy picking. However, that doesn't really solve his problem because even with economy picking, you end up on an upstroke after the 6th note and have to string skip to hit the E with a downstroke after.