Quote Originally Posted by Jimi75 View Post
To be honest, I've never seen someone play palm muted powerchords with alternate picking. As long as you are not playing high speed paml muting like for modern Metal, you can easily downstroke your chords which also sounds much better.
Hmm. Something about the way you phrased it made me realize there's a difference between alternate picking a chord and strumming up and down. I think I missed that.