Originally posted by iiholly
to learn alternate picking for me. Anyone in agreement, anyone in disagreement? I don't understand why we get so many questions about it, I find it to be quite a simple technique.

Same for me. I think it was easy to grasp but becoming really awesome is another story. As someone else wrote it might depend on how you hold your pick etc. For me I, quite recently actually, changed the way I placed/held my picking hand and got lots more stability which have improved my picking a great deal - alternate mainly, cuz that was I was trying to improve. I have been playing for a couple of years so it's never too late to face the fact that some of your techniques are crap =)