Not sure it’s best practiced on a single string as the dynamics change as soon as you shift to another string.
I practiced running up and down scales. If you only pick the root once at either end you should keep coming back to the start on the same finger. This worked pretty well for me.
That said I’m not religious about it, sometimes it just makes it easier to repeat a finger.
OK, I need to clarify about U2: I liked “One” and “With our without you” very much, the first several hundred times I heared it. But after I heared it several thousand times, I got a little fed up with it.
Great songs, but it made me not listen to radio anymore. Overexposure destroys passion!
So, these are some lesser known tracks that are also quite repetitive and use not so many notes too…
@AdamDickson once you’ve got some simple songs you like to listen to for your alternate plucking work then you might want to move away from watching the notes / tab and remembering where you are.
I like to use Chordify for practice. It gives the chord progression so you can keep track but no flash visuals or distractions just the song and you play over the top.
If you subscribe you can add features like looping certain sections you want to work on.
This is tougher than I expected. I’m up to around 175 bpm, but now I’m having trouble getting good crisp articulation on the notes so they don’t get muddy. Definitely some of the issue is when I fall off the beat a little bit, but some is noticeable when I’m right on.
Still incorrect - notated as being in 9/4 at 250+ BPM with eighth notes; in real life it’s in 4/4 at 125 BPM with sixteenth notes (and obvious differences in the measure boundaries).