[Rick Lee]

Building speed is as much about technique as practice. If you don't know how to do up and down or double picking correctly, no amount of practice will make you fast. Inefficient motion will kill you. That was a big hang up for me when I started and my teacher was planning to tell me to hang it up the night I came in and it just clicked. After that I never had a problem again. A good buddy of mine can play all the Yngwie stuff and he got that way by practicing sort of what Nostatic suggests. He just did it in one position on the neck and played 1234 on each string up and then back down. I was surprised by how hard that was for me, even after playing for 20 yrs. at that time. It's a good exercise.

Here's the high priest of shred. Watch his right hand. The left hand is what draws the eyes, but the right hand is where the speed is. No better double picking technique than this.