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As for when to pick up vs down there are a couple rules of thumb.

– down pick on the beat and up pick on the off beat.

If you have 4 quarter notes then it is all down picks, if you have all eighth notes it’s dudududu. When you do the count pick down on the numbers and up on the “ands”

– if doing arpeggios you pick in the direction of the next string. So if you are picking strings 5,4,3,4,5 you would pick DDUU and then either U or D depending on where the next string is after this sequence.