Another alternate picking exercise:
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This is a bit different to the exercises I posted before – instead of being based on a blues scale, it involves a suspended second arpeggio shape repeated across the strings and descending chromatically. Be careful to practice it very slowly to begin with, and speed up gradually. Because this is an alternate picking exercise, all of the arpeggios beginning on the A string start with an upstroke, so be careful not to start them with a downstroke (which is very easy to do if you don’t pay attention). This exercise involves a lot of stretching towards the end, it might be a bit much for some people, so don’t worry if you can’t bring it all the way down to the first fret on your first try – keep playing through it and you will improve.
While this exercise in itself is not especially melodic, and has no tonal centre, the individual arpeggios are quite a nice little flavour to throw into a guitar solo. Hope you enjoy it, and merry christmas everyone 
Nice, I like that pattern. I also like doubling up so you play in a 2 string pattern then shift up from E & A to A & D and so forth, I nicked it from Steve Vai’s K’m-Pee-Du-Wee.