Svartmetall said:True, but he switches to alternate when it's needed due to the speed of the song. If you just practice downstrokes you end up tensing up again when you come up against fast stuff.
no , mop's rhythm is played 100% downstrokes ... hetfields right hand is insanely fast
Not quite sure what you mean here, are you talking about how you hold the pick? Yes, thumb and forefinger is how I hold it; I was talking about the actual picking motion itself though.
i pick by moving my thumb , not wrist mainly