The Art Of Picking Part 3- Appendix
(05 Aug 02)
2 adjacent strings
OK, doing those exercises on 2 adjacent strings is the first step towards playing fast picked runs on all strings... letīs go !
The "Paul Gilbert"-exercise + variation. This is an essential one, and I also showed you those in the other picking-articles... ( memorize the one in measure 2, youīll need it again when we get to the sequences at the end of this article ! )
Here is an exercise I once created... a classical-style pedaltone-lick on two strings, moving down the neck diatonically...
In case youīre wondering why I didnīt include pick direction-indicators... why donīt you try to add those yourself ? Also, I recommend to work on starting with either an upstroke OR a downstroke... start each exercise with a downstroke, and next time start with an upstroke.
Also, I didnīt include licks with focus on inside / outside-picking or economy-picking. I explained those techniques / approaches in the other articles, and Iīll leave it to you to find and / or create your own exercises for those techniques. SO, this time I focussed entirely on straight alternate picking.
This one I showed you before, too: The PG-lick, moving up the neck diatonically in D-Major...
And another sequence, 3 descending notes on each string, then moving the sequence up the neck diatonically...
And the other way around: 6 ascending notes, with the sequence moving down the neck...
OK, letīs take it up another notch... picking on more than two adjacent strings...
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