Another lesson in the alternate picking series, this one practices alternate picking on non-adjacent strings. Unlike some of the other exercises in the series, this one has no tonal centre, isn’t based on any particular scale and is designed only to improve technique rather than achieve a particularly melodic sound. However some of the fragments from it can be fit in to a lot of different situations. Keep in mind that one of the reasons for playing through a wide variety of different patterns is so that you won’t end up being stuck in any one of them when you use what you’ve been practicing in a song situation.
There’s no fingering for the left hand written here.. try it with your first and third fingers to start with. Once that gets easy, try it with your second and fourth. As always start slow, get it perfect and speed up gradually.