Finger exercise for guitar #3

"My question relates to your picking exercises. In those exercises, you start each string with a down stroke and alternate between down and up picking. If I am doing a scale across all six strings (with that alternating method of picking), do I start on the next string with an upstroke if that is the next stroke in the sequence or do I begin each new string with a down stroke?"

The answer is you do continuous down up picking no matter what string your on.

If you complete a string - picking up - then the next picking direction will be down. 

And if you complete a string - picking down - then the next 

picking direction will be up. 

Now for a new exercise:

Start with 4th finger 12th fret thin E string - pick down

3rd finger 11th fret - pick up (remember to lift 4th finger)

back to 4th finger 12th fret - pick down

2nd finger 10th fret - pick up

back to 4th finger 12th fret - pick down

1st finger 9th fret - pick up

Remember to repeat this exercise 5 to 7 times each adjacent string.

Thin E, B, G, D, A, Thick E

Also once comfortable with this exercise add the metronome at 90 BPM - then gradually increase speed to 100, 110, 120 up to 220 BPM

VLL