Alternate Picking Exercises

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: You probably wonder what NE->SW means? Well, it's North East to South West - may sound funny but it's the best way to describe it! I would like to mention one thing you will sure meet in some of my lessons - and that is DRAWING. I like to call it drawing because when I work on exercises I usually get bored if I just play a scale up and down, so I try to ...

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Alright, there we have it! If you saw the previous lesson of this tutorial you will see this one is totally opposite in the direction we move. My first encounter with this kind of approach was when I saw Rusty Cooley and his Chops From Hell instructionals (later I found out that many guitarists use it). It looks really cool, it sounds cool and it gives you t...

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Instructor: Pavel Denisjuk Level: Advanced Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Ready to move on? Cool! Usually people can shred on thin strings but when they hit the low and thick strings they get into trouble as these strings behave a bit different and require different strength applied to function properly. That's why this exercise should be really useful. It's hard to make these things work smoothly and fluid so don't worry about ...

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