Gee, that rocks so hard!! *headbangs*

Have you learned to alternate pick yet? That's the technique you will need for the lead line. You'll just need lots of practice to build endurance if you want to attempt the rhythm line with all downstrokes.

I'm not bad at alternate-picking... I think I'm actually a lot better at it when playing lead, it seems to be second nature to me now there, but on most rhythm parts I keep falling into all-downstrokes again. Even though it's much the same action in the end.

I never really had that problem, but how I got to my current point is originally playing chordal songs (open chords or capo, mostly). If you want to pick up the skill, this is how I would recommend going about it:

Find a single power chord, and play very slowly to a metronome, making sure to alternate pick. If you have to concentrate to do it at first, do so. As you play, raise the tempo every minute or so, and hopefully alternate picking will start feeling somewhat natural after a few minutes. Might require a few days at worst, but you'll get there if you try.

It's important to start with just a single chord, as that will allow you to concentrate on your right hand picking. Once you feel the right hand is becoming natural at faster speeds, start moving the chord, and again concentrate on your picking. Once that finally becomes second nature, you should be good to start playing rhythm ;)

The metronome is definitely something I should practice with more. Often when I pick up the guitar I end up just... fiddling with it, which is sometimes great for music writing but not for actual practice. I used to actually do the finger exercises and scales and everything - I just need to get used to going that extra step of connecting it up to the computer every now and then :)

Pretty good melody and performance. I really feel, though, that the song could really benefit if you developed the arrangement a bit further with backing tracks like Strings and Choir.

Well, thanks very much for your watch and favourites today :) This was based off a quick submission that I did one morning, but as you may have seen now, quite a lot of my music goes with that style you described. I'd been half-thinking of expanding on this one, maybe including other music from the game in the arrangement as well - I'm not sure if it'll go anywhere yet.

You'd be surprised how far it can take the song. I should know, many of my music which I submitted are actually rewrites or even re-rewrites of old songs I wrote years ago. ;)

Awesome!