downpicked

English

Adjective

downpicked (comparative more downpicked, superlative most downpicked)

1. (music) Played using downpicking.
   • 2002, Jeff Kitts, Brad Tolinski, Guitar World Presents Nu-metal, →ISBN, page 21:

     Grinding speed metal rampages like "Disasterpiece" and "New Abortion," and the hyperspeed, furiously downpicked punk-style riffing of "Everything Ends" are no doubt harder, faster and, at least lyrically, sicker.

   • 2005, Review of Contemporary Fiction, page 141:

     The Young Marble Giants song "Final Day" could serve as Minor Angels's soundtrack: a single sci-fi theremin note hovers over a quavering organ, muted, downpicked guitar, and a plain but lovely female voice that sings about the final day, the world lighting up for the last time only to fall into endless night "for the people who never had a say."

   • 2013, Martin Popoff, Metallica: The Complete Illustrated History, →ISBN:

     There's awesome speed, the revolutionary (for the time) blending of Brit-metal bombast— think Priest, Maiden, and especially Diamond Head—with the street-level aggression of hardcore punk, and the fierce technical edge of the music, best exemplified by Hetfield's aggressively downpicked, heavily palm-muted rhythm-guitar attack.

Verb

downpicked

1. simple past and past participle of downpick