которые играют переменным штрихом:
- Shawn Lane - 18 nps (nps - notes per second, т.е. нот в секунду).
- Danny Joe Carter - 17 nps (not note for note accurate/coordinated at that speed)
- Todd Duane - 16.5 - 17 nps (very accurate)
- Marcus Paus - 16 -17 nps (inaccurate, tremelo picking)
- Rusty Cooley - 16 nps
- John McLaughlin - 16 nps (very accurate....on acoustic!!!!!)
- Michael Angelo Batio - 16 nps (very accurate)
- Joel Rivard - 16 nps (very accurate)
- Tony Macalpine - 16 nps (very accurate)
- Guthrie Govan - 16 nps
- Rick Graham - 16 nps
- Theodore Ziras - 16 nps (alternate picks accurate up to around 16 nps, after that he starts to switch to missing out pickstrokes/economy picking)
- Chris Impellitteri - 16 nps (16 nps in his early years.....these days more around 14-15 nps)
- Conrad Simon - 15 nps (very accurate)
- John Petrucci - 15 nps (can be very accurate when not simply "tremelo picking")
- Yngwie Malmsteen - 15 nps
- Paul Gilbert - 15 nps (very accurate)
- Al Di Meola - 15 nps (very accurate)
- Jorge Strunz - 15 nps (very accurate)
- Jason Becker - 15 nps (can be very accurate)
- Vinnie Moore - 15 nps (very accurate)
- John Norum - 15 nps
- Michael Romeo - 15 nps
- Ron Thal - 15 nps
- Jeremy Barnes - 15 nps
- John Sykes - 15 nps
- Mario Parga - 15 nps (not very accurate, mostly tremelo picking)
- Paco DeLucia - 14 -15 nps
- Kee Marcello - 14 nps (very accurate)
- Milan Polak - 14 nps
- Bob Zabek - 14 nps
- Matthew Mills - 14 nps
- Nuno Bettencourt - 14 nps
- George Bellas - 14 nps
- Stephan Forte - 14 nps
- Toshi Iseda - 14 nps
- Mark Tremonti - 14 nps
- German Schauss - 14 nps (quite inaccurate)
- Buckethead - 13.5 nps
- Jeff Loomis - 13.5 nps
- Tony Smotherman - 13 nps
- Steve Vai - 13 -14 nps (mostly around 13 nps)
- Neil Zaza - 13 nps (i'm sure he can pick quicker than this... i just don't have many good quality recordings)
- Joe Stump - 13 nps (though he does gain more speed with certain runs by economy picking)
- Greg Howe - 13 nps
- Steve Morse - 13 nps
- Randy Rhoads - 13 nps
- Zakk Wylde - 13 nps
- The Great Kat - 13 nps (...of very inaccurate tremelo picking on 1 string)
- Joey Taffola - 12 nps (very accurate)
Odracir (Michael Angelo forum) - 27 - 28 nps (Spasmic arm vibration picking on 1 note)
- Shredmikael (John Petrucci forum) - 20 nps (Spasmic arm vibration "tremelo" picking; is 16 years old)
- Tiago Della Vega - 18 - 20 nps (picks up to this speed with spasmic arm vibrations, left and right hands never match up, and often fingers more notes than he picks)
- Francesco Fareri - 18 nps (...of uncoordinated, inaccurate, arm vibration picking on 1 string)
- Rusty Cooley - 16.5 - 17 nps (up to this speed when using the vibrating arm picking method, which loses some accuracy)