Excercises

[newamerikangosp]

I have been searching through the article side of the website for weeks, and haven't run across a great string skipping excercise/etude. I am looking for something that I will have to spend weeks learning, not because its a long excercise, but something that is truely "complex". So if anyone has one, or could direct me to an article on this site that I have somehow overlooked, I would be very grateful.

[joeyd929]

I have been searching through the article side of the website for weeks, and haven't run across a great string skipping excercise/etude. I am looking for something that I will have to spend weeks learning, not because its a long excercise, but something that is truely "complex". So if anyone has one, or could direct me to an article on this site that I have somehow overlooked, I would be very grateful.

I make up exercises when I can not find any. LIke for string skipping, I do this easy thing with only my index and middle finger on my fretting hand.

I play starting at the first fret, 6th string and simply play "1 2", first fret, second fret. Then I skip to the fourth string and play 1 2. Then on to the second string. (all in the same fret)

Descending I start on the high E string, play 2 1, then skip to third string, play 21, then to 5th string, and play 2 1.

I pick every note so you get the work out you need to improve your string skipping. It is a start, why wait until you find a book.. Keep looking for a good book, but in the meantime, you can still work on string skipping with simple exercises.

Then I move up to the next fret and repeat, all the way up until I run out of guitar neck..

[Rhodes]

Hey everybody. Here is my first post here at IBM. I hope it is helpful. The Shred Academy website will be a place to be on the look out for great learning material. As pertains to this thread check out the Kris Barras Alt. Picking E-book. Among its chapters are eleven killer excercises on string skipping. http://www.shredacademy.com/Shop/krisbarras/altpicking.htm
Specifically the chapters in this e-book are divided as follows: warm ups, single string, two string, three string, two octave, three octave, and string skipping.
I'm working through this e-book now, and find it to be very very awesome for improving picking technique. It is not to expensive either ($11.49). Highly recommended.

[Buebo]

Maybe you like something like this. It's by Paul Gilbert. Also check out the song Play With Me by Extreme, it has a fast AP stringskipped section in the solo (at the end of it).
Also check out the playing of Carl Verheyen who uses a lot of string skipping in his lines.

[newamerikangosp]

I dont have powertab:(

[Poparad]

The most useful one I ever came across was this one alternate picking exercise I found in an interview with Steve Vai:

-1-2---3-----4-------
-----1---2-----3-----
-----------1-----2---
-------------------1-
---------------------
---------------------


I would take that and repeat it on strings 2-5 and 3-6 and then move it up a fret and repeat.

I then thought to reverse the pattern, and it yeilds a completely new challenge to learn:

---------------------
---------------------
-------4-----3---2-1-
-----3-----2---1-----
---2-----1-----------
-1-------------------

[flathead]

Also check out the playing of Carl Verheyen who uses a lot of string skipping in his lines.

He's also got a great book, 'Improvising without scales' that is filled with wide intervallic string skipping lines.

I don't know if it's still available but his instructional video is good as well.

I love his playing.

[draken0898]

Have you read all the articles by Eric V??

He has done many on the subject of picking with execises/etudes.. :cool:

Also, try here:-

http://www.guitarlodge.com/guitar-lessons/index.php?ID=158


Dave