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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 [...]

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 [...]

Hey everyone, this post follows on from an earlier one on alternate picking, so check that out before you get stuck into this. These are some more alternate picking exercises on a blues scale. They are written in B, but don’t contain any open strings, so you can move them up and down on [...]

I had a student who took a couple of alternate picking exercises from a magazine, and worked at it until he got some impressive speed and accuracy.  Which is awesome – practicing regularly is the only way to develop some real chops.  But then when it came time to stop playing through the exercise and [...]