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The Chaos Lick

Instructor: Chris Feener
Topic: Exercises
Style: Any Style
Level: Crazy!
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    The Chaos Lick - Intro and Performance Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Hey everyone! For this tutorial, I want to test your picking abilities with this etude I wrote entitled "The Chaos Lick". It features both economy AND alternate picking styles, both entwined rather randomly. The focus of this exercise is to achieve a heavy "no note missed" pick approach. Focus on the pick directions made available beneath each note in the tr...

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    The Chaos Lick - Part 1: Economy Picking Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: Bars 1 through 5 feature some of the trickiest picking patterns for those of us inexperienced with the art of economy picking. We float through segments of arpeggios as well as some scale-oriented passages. Remember: The rhythm never changes and EVERY note is picked. This is the tricky part: not blurring notes together simply due to a change in the number o...

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    The Chaos Lick - Part 2: Alternate Picking Chris Feener
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    Instructor: Chris Feener Level: Crazy! Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

    Excerpt: And now for something a little more familiar to guys like myself - alternate picking! Starting in bar 6, the technique switches to alternate with a series of Paul Gilbert-esque arpeggios. In bar 8, we descend through some 4-note-per-string chromatics that may cause some confusion. The reason being, we're playing through them in a triplet-feel, meaning four ...

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