Pearl Jam

I was listening to this bit on the radio and it was a song I had heard before. "whoa whoa whoa-oh I'm still alive"

It was just another song until the solo came. From that first bend I knew this solo was going to be a little bit amazing. I raced home and got the song and the tab and it just sounds so good. Its not super flashy and. The solo for the most part stays in the same grouping so its pretty easy to play, but it sounds so good. A lot of good tricks for the bag in this one.

Alive - Pearl Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCgFYz7VX74

Tab - http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/search.php?bn=&sn=alive&advanced=0&npage=8

Technical Training

Growing up I played violin. It was fun, but the thing I hated most about violin was when I had to do technical excercises. They seemed lifeless and sounded bad. More than that the notes were hard to execute! Recently (maybe 2 weeks ago) I tried a technical exercise that involves sweeping the D-e string and then switching to A-G string and I had extreme difficulty doing that with sixteenth notes even at 60BPM. I can do it now at 80BPM and i'm trying to work up to 90.

Also down strumming powerchords really fast..how the hell do i do that?