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Notice this carries down-strokes over from one string to the next - you are using one pick stroke for 2 notes. Economy is generally good; however, if you start getting into this habit, your ''real '' alternate picking ''will'' suffer because you aren't practicing it. '''My advice is to focus on true alternate picking. ''' If you later feel like you need more speed and want to develop economy picking, you can do so then. But alternate picking tends to be easier to keep consistent rhythm and dynamics and really strengthen the picking hand.
I fell into the economy picking trap on accident. After I realized I was always economy picking, I thought it was simpler and easier than true alternate picking. But after recording my playing and listening to how off my rhythm could be, I knew that I had to break the habit. It took a solid month to completely reverse all the bad habits I had unwittingly used for almost a year. But my rhythm and dynamic consistently improved quite a bit.