Practicing Scales: Right Hand Technique

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: Thanks for joining me in this latest tutorial where we will be looking at various ways of practicing scales. Spending a lot of time playing scales can be extremely boring, especially if we employ few ways of traversing the fretboard. If we focus in on the right hand, we can employ an infinite number of techniques to help us relieve the monotony of scale ...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: Lets deal with group 2. This group incorporates alternate picking with slurs. It will feel a little awkward to start with but as long as you keep to a nice tempo you'll be fine. The first pattern involves picking the first two notes on every string and hammering the third note. When descending simply reverse the pattern. It is imperative that you observe t...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: OK, the eagle eyed amongst you will notice that in group 3, the picking patterns are the same as group 2 but with one exception: the introduction of the hybrid picking. The picking patterns are the same however we will be replacing the 2nd picked note on every string in example 1 with the middle finger of the right hand and the 3rd picked note of example 2 ...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: OK, in group 4 we will be leaning more towards the legato school of playing. That is, less picking and more slurring. In the first example we will be picking the first note and hammering the following two on every string(reversing this pattern when descending). Picking wise we will be using economy picking. When ascending we'll use a downstroke and when des...

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Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Intermediate Topic: Technique Style: Rock

Excerpt: Welcome to the final group in this tutorial, group 5. This group will cover some of the more unusual ways of practicing scales. The first example utilizes left hand hammer ons only. In the previous group, we played the scale using left hand only, however, we played hammers when ascending and pull offs when descending. This example requires you to play the s...

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