Answer: because it is technically difficult.

Great lesson. But somehow is so difficult to have the attack of Paul's picking. He's such a unique guitarist 🤘

Hi man, really what an awesome video quality, plus the information and everything you teach is absolutely amazing!

Perfect. Thank you. Subscribed to your Patreon just for the whole lesson 😊

I tried this yesterday when I got home and it is fantastic, not easy ,this lesson has let me understand pick slanting. I'm in !!!!

David Schneiderero for president! ❤🎉

Bro thank you, out here doing gods work

So snappy and clean, you are my hero David

I learned this song like 20+ years ago and just ended up doing a hybrid of economy/sweep and alternate picking to get the speed. It works for me anyway 😂

As an economy picker, I never knew this riff was that hard when playing alternate picking, but man, it looks very tricky. Neither way is better overall, of course,, and alternate picking will be superior in other situations (so, if that's the way you like playing, then carry on), but with economy picking, the beginning to this is just down on D string, and then up and down on A, carry on to the d string, and repeat. But I see why it's called Technical difficulties, since Paul Gilbert (like most guitarists) alternate picks. I bet there are plenty of things that are a lot easier to play with alternate picking than economy picking, of course, but yeah, in this instance it's way easier with economy.

I used economy picking all the time for this riff up to speed with a downstroke on the d string, guess i finally have to learn the full motion

It is also about physiological difficulties!! ...especially the fret hand; the size of a hand in relation to the distance of the frets. Compared to the size of your hands, with my small hands and short fingers, I need a guitar where the entire fingerboard length is about 33 cm between the 1st and 22nd fret (instead of 43 cm). You can never be a fast hurdler if you have short legs.

Paul Gilbert a grand master in the world of guitar

I've seen Troy Grady cover alternate pick slanting. It blows my mind that not only can you guys flawlessly hit the right notes at those speeds, you can also change the angle of the pick at the precise moment needed. I would be so lost. Thanks for the vid

Awesome intro...!!! Sometimes the most profane jokes are the best: Naming a song "technical difficulties", cause people, who´ll try playing it, will, for sure, face "technical difficulties", is genius...

The extra frets on that beautiful guitar. Wow 🔥

Großartig erklärt! Nicht nur für den Song fördernd.

I recently realized how under developed my upstrokes are compared to my down strokes and alternate picking. I never understood why I could never plat lay this song to speed. Thank you so much for this in depth dive

dang! its all in the technique. just have to practice that everyday for a year and i should be ready to play the first part lol

That was great! Thank you so much! Been having trouble with this track for a while.

Technical Difficulty is the ultimate of the alternate picking

This is the CORRECT way to play this. Good job bro.

Love this, cover the main part of scafied in this way would be great. Thanks

Bro, thanks for this top tier content. I'm aplying this to Nothing to say (angra). This song has an alternate picking riff really hard to play and your tips were helpful.

DUDE! Thanks a ton. I now understand the trick and can play significantly better in tempo. Thank you!

I've never really had a problem with the picking, more so with the fretting hand. My picking technique is kind of a mix between wrist and thumb, so when I switch strings I lift a little with my wrist and pull my thumb in a little so there's less movement. I also hold the pick at a more extreme angle so its almost vertical to the strings because I thought that's how Paul Gilbert got that strong of a pick attack. But fretting hand wise I have trouble switching between strings on low string sixteenth note triplets due to them having notes on the same fret on the next string immediately

Aaaahhhggg. I've been using the downward picking slant with downward economy picking yjm style for the past year and cannot get out of this habit! Haha. Brilliant lesson. Thank you

Fantastic lesson, for a killer tune. Thank you very much

The intro is a masterpiece ! Thanks for the explains !

This must have been the reason I was having so much trouble with the intro to walk with me in hell… and also the reason why string skipping came so naturally lol thank you so much for finally explaining to me what’s it’s called and what I was doing from technical sense… I figured it out but could never explain it until now

really awesome technic. i stuck this all time now time to fix this . thanks david.superb

thanks a lot im doing this for my grade 1 exam

Why are you making me think I can play this song? Love it. Great explanation.

Amazing lesson, thanks for sharing :)

Thanks for the instruction 😊. P.S. That’s a really cool Ibanez - it’s very JEM-ish 😎

Good lesson but please give the credits due to Troy Grady!

Very like this kind of content!

I play fairly well. I first learned fingerstyle Chet Atkins and use a thumbpick. I've always felt that with a thumpick, you could play faster and not have to hold the flatpick,but I won't have the intense attack.Great Video :-)

amazing tone

Bro, I Thought this was gonna be some kind of click bait. Awesome video! Please make more content like this!!

Sehr gut erklärt und irre gut gespielt. Nicht einfach sich nach 30 Jahren umzugewöhnen aber es funktioniert so deutlich besser. Nur habe nie gesehen, dass Paul den Winkel des Picks ändert. Denke er berührt dann mit dem Pick die abgedämpften Saiten.

Man ...love the extra frets u have😂

I'm not a guitar player but this is Interesting stuff to watch.

Very good lesson bro !

2:55 oh man, that hurts looking at it. And that's where I was stuck at for years thanks to my downward slanting picking technique. HOWEVER, for metal downpicking and general rhythm playing downward pickslanting is where its at for me.

Killer vid!!! Thanks so much!

After mastering technical difficulties you sort of got a degree in shredding 😅

Good job man thanks

Oh, you did make a video on this, I love it :)

Thank you very much 🎉🎉🎉

lifesaver

Nice one. Now explain to us what you think of Matteo Mancusos, äh, picking techniques 🙂

Great lesson

Good lord. What a right hand.

Nice lesson! I like the tone your getting, did you keep the stock Tone Zone in the bridge?

Troy Grady covers this and more... as you know...

You make it look so smooth and easy. How do you hold your pick for gallop style picking?

So clean english! Nice

why use alternate picking when you can use economy picking?

Hey Man! That’s awesome! Well explained! Do you teach through Skype or something I would like some lessons from you if possible dude? Very efficient picking you have there.

What about the pick depth, or how far the pick sticks out from your fingers? I feel like that has a really big impact on how hard it is to play something fast. It looks like your picks sticks out pretty far, but maybe that's just the camera angle or you did it on purpose for demonstration purposes. Either way, amazing video!

I like it my bro

I love side dots.

Similar to what Steve Vai is doing as Jack Butler in Crossroads

Geiler Akzent meine Guete

Arrrrg!!!! Just cannot do that pick angle! But then again, i don't practice...no time.

I've got longer fingers than paul so fretting is OK but i can't get the picking hand down at all.

dude, this might sound weird but even your fingers move the ways that Paul Gilbert's do... that blows my mind

Quality content right here ! David, how do you handle palm-muting when your forearm needs to lift during the downstroke escape passages ?

Another hard song that uses the same string hopping is Dokken Mr Scary.

The last part of TD is the most difficultiest

I got the first part of the riff down but those transitions are killing me... I always get caught in other strings and it's just a hot mess... Part 2? 😅😢

Didn’t Troy Grady explain pick slanting like five years ago?

Ich hab eher ein Problem mit den Triolen, die danach kommen auf der tiefen E-Saite.

wow

You have too much yaw. There is a buzz induced from imperfections in the pick. Pick perpendicular to the string.

The only secret to achieve mastery is to not use force. Force and tensions in muscles prevents consistent flow and therefore speed.

Hi bro thanks ❤ that's exactly what I can't get on the other title (fuzz universe, I want to play it but I can't get it with a very fast tempo, see at the minute 1m:19s until 1:26s 😅

You use principles of Anton Oparin alternate picking technique, wright?

Why it seems to me that the description of how to play it is way more complicated that it actually is? I can play the riff very clearly and correct and I am a very average guitarist. It always seemed to me pretty straightforward.

What are you running through?

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is that a follow the reaper poster in the back?

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Very nice guitar. What is the model?

I can barely play the notes fast let alone look at which way I am slanting LOL.

Yes, but Paul doesn’t use pick slanting..

Sounds ok - but you're not muting at all - which is a huge part of the metal dog/TD sound.

In other words, don't play and pick it like Marty Friedman, if you are not Mary Friedman 😁

This video keep showing in my feed, idk why

Anyone else see the one hair he missed on his beard there?

Should have said "this is why you're having technical difficulties" , or "this will cause you technical difficulties" 😆

if you see Paul Gilbert playing he play's first downpick on the 4th string and the second time he plays that string he then goes up. Check the video of him playing and you can clearly see and listen to it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNRdqs1l1bjUeXk.html&ab_channel=FrancescoPazzaglia

Ok¿

Very difficult 😂😂😂😂😂

Couldn't you just start with an upstoke?

I tested your patreon link from here in Australia on my desktop and it gives a 404 error. The link in the description has been shortened by youtube.

could you buy me that guitar pretty please? THanks :D

Anton Oparin's technique is much better for this...

You are making video how to play it right and you don’t play it right, really nice… original riffing is muted, what didn’t you mute that? Maybe your technique doesn’t allow you to do that