Pick direction with triplets and hammer-ons

[Darby]

Help please.
Playing in the key of G at the end of a solo I want to ascend in triplets and hammer-ons

(4th string) fret 7 hammer to 9
(3) pick 7
(4) pick 9
(3)7 h to 9
(3) 7 h to 9
(2) pick 8
(3) pick 9
(2) 8 h 10
(2) 8 h 10 slide to 12
(2)10 h 12
(1) pick 10

I can play this quite fast but I notice that I don't have any uniform picking pattern. How is the best way to approach this? Should I imagine I am picking every note alternatively up and down and use this to structure my picking?

So if I were to pick up and down this would be
4th string) fret 7 pick down 9 up
(3) 7 d
(4) 9 u
(3)7 d 9 up…


So with the hammer-one I would pick like this

4th string) fret down 7 hammer to 9
(3) 7 d
(4) 9 u
(3)7 d hammer to 9…

Or do you have any alternative or better ideas please?

[oliverkollar]

When flat picking your downstroke falls on the beat and the upstroke on the "and". 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and....DUDUDUDU. Any other subdivision is the same. 16'ths 1 e and a 2 e and a DUDU DUDU.

Your chart has me confused. Triplets should be picked D-U-D With a downstroke for your next, if it falls on the beat.

Hammer ons follow the same rules....hope this makes sense.

[Chipotle]

If you can play it as fast and cleanly as you need to, what's the problem? Is it that you think there should be a "right" way to do it? There isn't.

[Darby]

Thanks for the replies. Well the problem is as I tend to change my picking pattern inadvertently, so I tend to trip myself up now and again.

I understand DUD, DUD is fine for an Irish jig but I am playing a flowing setting of notes, which go quite fast.

So I thought if used the DUDUDUDUD pattern, and then worked out where the D or the U fall I could have a consistent pattern.

So if I pick, hammer on and then pick, I would treat the pick as DOWN, the hammer-on as "ghost" UP and the pick as DOWN.

I think I have read somewhere about somebody using the method!