search google and the forum and there's nothing that explains it. Saw it on the art of shredding, but I really didn't get what he was doing. Can someone explain gallop picking or post a link.

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Galloping.

Tuggadun tuggadun tuggadun. Think Iron Maiden's "The Trooper" main backing rhythm.

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Gallop Picking:

DUD, DUD, DUD, DUD, DUD, DUD (downstroke, upstroke, downstroke)...

I used to be big on gallop picking, it's a pretty cool sound, a bit tricky to learn. Harder than tremolo picking at least.

Down Up Down, Down up Down, repeat....

It's really difficult, but it will come. To give you an idea, it took me about 2-3 months roughly to really get the hang of it, and become very comfortable with it. I still have a lot of room for improvement, but this is just to give you an idea of the amount of practice and time it takes.

set that metronome up to a low count (like in the 50's) and do a "Down up Down" for every beat. eventually you will get speedy and be able to go faster. just remember to try and keep your wrist loose and not tense up-- that was the difficult part for me.

You need to practice this every day, of course. you are trying to build muscles in your wrist, and train them a certain way. It's like weight lifting-- you can't go in there on day one and bench 300. you gotta build up to it.

Palm mute, determine the rhythmic picking pattern, and build up speed eventually.

I thought it was really simple. Sure it's hard if you're trying to learn Battery less than 1 month into our guitar playing but it's not hard on its own. I find tremolo picking fast and consistently a lot harder than gallops.

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too be honest i never really found it hard either... same with tremolo picking,

other way for me
yes it is faster but you don't have to have that EXPLODE motion of Gallops, you can just take the trem picking chill

yeah, I never found it quite toooo hard to pick up. I'm with soeru in that I find accurate tremolo picking harder. It's only gonna be considerably hard to learn if you force yourself to learn it, at least in my experience. I've found for a lot of techniques, it's better to just play it, even if it sounds a little sloppy, and kind of let time do the rest. It will eventually clean up and center itself. I really love this style of picking, and didn't even know it was called galloping... there really is no better way to name/describe it.

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its easy as hell

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not to brag or anything, but I just picked up the guitar to try it, pretty easy to get the hang of it, if I'm doing it right.

So, to make sure, it's just a picking style like alternate picking, but instead DUD, doesn't matter if it's one string or two right? and just to clarify, tremolo is just banging on one string alternate picking?

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Ya, exactly, a picking style. Never stop the pattern of DUD, DUD, DUD, DUD.. and yes, if you are talking about galloping power chords instead of one string, it can be done. Its not typical, because galloping is meant for one string. Its like tremolo picking, in that it is meant for one string, however, it can be done on two strings. Personally, I think it sounds better on one string, and its easier. I'd recommend doing it on one string alone.

^ Ok thanks, that helps. I've been practicing it both on 1 and 2 strings and it is pretty easy to get the hang of. has a cool, different sound.

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isn't it basically playing triplets?

Yes, it is exactly that.

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It's actually, for example, three 16ths and a 16th rest, which is not a triplet since each of the notes are given an equal time value.

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Praise the lord, that's how I've always tabbed them in GP

Ha, how many times have you had to post that?

It seems to be a common misconception that gallops are triplets.

What exactly is a triplet may I inquire?

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Ha, yeah!

A triplet, using 8ths as the example, would be three 8th notes played in the time it normally takes to play two 8th notes.

Gallop: da da da (rest)

Triplet: da da-da

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I don't know how accurate your desciption for gallops are johnmansley..

Gallops, the way they are commonly used, do not contain rests. The gallop that we so commonly see and hear is most often two 16ths and an 8th note, not three 16ths and a rest. Typically, there is no rest involved. For example when you hear Iron Maiden do it, they're not resting when they gallop in The Trooper, they're playing two 16ths and an 8th, two 16ths and an 8th, two 16ths and an 8th, etc.. Just thought I'd clarify.