Feen's Trick Bag!

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Welcome back IG-ers! For this tutorial, let's dive into three licks that will be sure to challenge you in three different ways.Let this lesson serve as an avenue for exploring some techniques that can help achieve the note choices you want, but in different methods of execution. Remember, be clean, start slow, and follow each and every pick stroke...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Lick 2: This one will cause some tangliness with the right hand. I decided to devise a pattern that works flawlessly for economy picking. Again, another way to achieve a series of notes while using an alternate approach - in this case, using a staccato-sounding pick approach for spread-interval arpeggios. There's NO legato involved in this lick, so be sure ...

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Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Lick 3 So, keeping with the theme of spreading out intervals - here's one that involves a bunch of wacky-sounding arpeggios played in non-conventional ways. Incorporating some economy picking and legato, we achieve a sound that works against the rhythmic pulse (with groups of five 16th notes in the second half) and creating a rather "futuristic" effect in t...

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