Pick-Stroke Uniformity

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

Excerpt: Hey everyone! This month we're taking a close look at our pick-stroke. Maintaining a uniformity with regards to pick-stroke dynamics (regardless of which direction our pick strokes each string) will open many windows of opportunity to mix scalar and arpeggio sequences seemlessly. Each exercises consists of "linear" alternate picked sequences, as well as eco...

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

Excerpt: Lick 2 consists of two bars of contrasting technique - the first, we're ascending through a fairly common three-note-per string passage with alternate, before descending through an E minor arpeggio sequence in bar two. Again, the focus of these exercises are to pick every note with a consistent pick attack.

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

Excerpt: Lick 3 is a little more "mixed up" as far as pick directions are concerned. Much like lick 1, we begin with alternate picking but are soon met with an ascending Dmaj7 arpeggio from the A to G strings. The most effective method of practicing this lick, is to play through the first measure up to the first time we pick the 14th fret of the G string. Not biting ...

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

Excerpt: Finally, lick 4 kinda mixes things up. This exercise begins with an up-stroke to allow for our economy to "reset" before hitting the alternate picked measure in bar 2 with a down stroke. Practice bar 1, first, to a metronome, before moving forward. While bar 2 features a fairly standard alternate picked descending lick, we still want to set it up properly so...

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