Talk:Alternate picking

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what's with the over-emphasis on metal? alternate picking's used in practically every form of guitar-based music. this is obviously written from a metal-fan's POV and it shows

i removed the expression 'or most commonly refered to as "Machine-Gunning"'. while i have heard the sound of (distorted, palm muted) alternate picked passages compared somewhat facetiously to the sound of a machine gun, i've never actually hear alternate picking termed 'machine-gunning'. as such, i don't think the claim that this is the 'most commonly' used term is justified; it's not sourced, so i've removed it. Bridies (talk) 22:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I removed the "Dick Dale is famous for his fast alternate picking technique" deadhead-fan thing. The reason is simple enough: any average-good guitarist who can play little shred (that is thousands of guitarists, including myself) play as fast if not faster alternate picking. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.217.93.205 (talk) 17:50, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I re-added the "machine gunning" term. While it is not accurate to say it is the most common term, it is sometimes referred to as "machine gunning"

"...used only by pick users..."
This is incorrect, and the bass player Victor Wooten is a prime example of this - he uses his thumb to achieve alternate picking, striking the strings with a strict up-down/down-up motion.

This article needs a severe overhaul, anyway. PCLM (talk) 20:29, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Merge Proposal: Why so many articles?
Besides an article on "alternate picking," there's one on "sweep picking", "economy picking", "flat picking", "squelch picking", "fingerstyle" and lord only knows how many others. And following this trend one could add "circle picking", "tremolo picking", "dead picking" and probably a dozen more.

There is also an article called "guitar picking".

Do we really need to have a separate article on each variety of guitar picking?

None of these techniques is all that difficult to describe. All that's really needed is a brief description of each, the names of a couple of noted practitioners, and perhaps a link to an audible example. If each individual style of picking has it's own separate article, it's hard to imagine that it would stop there -- we could justify individual articles on every right-hand technique; every extended technique; every stringing technique... if you go in that direction, why not just start an independent "guitar wiki"?

I propose merging all of the various picking articles into the "guitar picking" article, in the appropriate sections. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk • contribs) 16 June 2014 (UTC)