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Squeeze it out
(29 Aug 03)
The monster sequence
OK, here is one of my favorite exercises to learn a pattern and at the same time, work on my picking. As I mentioned a few times before, learning a pattern should be done not only by playing it up and down a bunch of times or memorizing it from paper, but by playing stuff on it, i.e. some sequences.
This next one is a monster-sequence. If you look at the TAB, or try to play it, it's (hopefully... probably) very easy to understand. Lemme try to explain anyway...
This is a pattern of the G Major scale, three notes per string. We start on the G, and ascend to the C. Then we go back. Start again on the G, move up to D and go back. Go back up, to E this time, and back. This way, the run keeps growing, because the top note is moved up by one step every time.
You don't have to memorize the TAB or something, simply try to understand the sequence, the idea behind this exercise... it'll be way easier then. Use a metronome, start out slowly. This is not really something to use in an actual song, but it incorporates several different picking-situations, and you'll really have to memorize the pattern...
OK, all the stuff I showed you in this article (and there's one more exercise to go) should be considered examples to show you what's possible. By no means are those exercises and variations a list of what is possible... there are way more permutations, basic exercises and variations thereof. It also depends on what you wanna work on. You should (just like you had to with the monster run I just showed you) try to understand the basic idea / concept, and apply it to whatever you're working on.... Legato, tapping, chords, rhythm, theory...
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