the stylus pick is a very useful learning tool that teaches minimum movement away from the strings as you play across them. the less you move your pick away from the strings the faster you can pick, paul gilbert himself said that you can pnly play as fast as you can alterante pick on his instructional video, he then showed some neat technics that realy help with this. the stylus pick kicks butt what it is is a pick made from some kinda plastic but on the tip it has a diamond sorta shaped tip which alows the pick to naturaly roll over the strings back and fourth thus eliminating to much movement away from the string, basicly the pick never leaves the string which is a awesome speed technic. if you wanna play as fast as macalpine or angelo and that crowd it is an advantage that teached you minimum movement and after youve used it for a while when you swith back to a normal pick this idea stays with you so there you have it in a nutshell. i hope this helps. i used one for 2 years steadily and i still use it from time to time and i dont think i wasted my time. happy shredding flash.