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Ex-022 Octave Scale

Patrick MacFarlane — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 11:25:02 +0000

Practice your Octaves in unison with this simple exercise! Octaves help you become more mobile on the fretboard and aware of what you’re playing. I believe they are one of the most beneficial fretboard concepts [...]

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Ex-021 Alternate Picking Sixteenth Notes

Patrick MacFarlane — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:21:04 +0000

Practice your alternate picking over sixteenth notes with this exercise. Sixteenth notes are great for alternate picking because they must be played quickly and alternate picking helps you play faster! This one focuses on four [...]

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Ex-020 Combining Alternate and Sweep Picking

Patrick MacFarlane — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 05:00:25 +0000

Improve your technique and speed by combining alternate picking and sweep picking. In the following exercise, you will combine alternate picking lines with sweep picking lines in both directions (ascending and descending). When ascending, notice [...]

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Ex-019 Efficient Speed Picking Exercise

Patrick MacFarlane — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 02:36:50 +0000

Practice economy and sweep picking and other concepts in this efficient speed picking exercise. This exercise is efficient because it crams all of the following into one exercise: G major scale with 3 notes per [...]

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Ex-018 Horizontal Ladder Exercise

Patrick MacFarlane — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 03:58:56 +0000

Improve your fretboard knowledge with this rut-breaking ladder exercise from my upcoming book on learning the fretboard. This exercise can be applied to any sequence of notes, such as a scale, mode, or arpeggio. It [...]

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Ex-017 Speed-up Tapping

Patrick MacFarlane — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:38:20 +0000

Practice your hammer-ons and pull-offs mixed with some finger tapping with this exercise by Milan Trickovic. The true purpose of this exercise is to work on tapping technique and speed building by mixing it with [...]

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Ex-016 Sweep Picking Gmaj6

Patrick MacFarlane — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:00:54 +0000

Learn to sweep pick a Gmaj6 chord cleanly with this exercise, which was written and recorded by Theo Kosmidis. Audio has been provided at full speed and at a slower speed. It is played without [...]

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Ex-015 Brazilian Legato

Patrick MacFarlane — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:49:07 +0000

Learn to play fast and smooth with this fun legato exercise by Dave Dohearty. What is Legato In music, legato means to play notes smoothly and connected. To a guitarist, this generally means picking as little as [...]

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Ex-014 Repeating Bass Two-Octave Scale

Patrick MacFarlane — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 04:00:06 +0000

Practice two-octave scales in a unique way while practicing your picking technique. This exercise is a great way to practice two things at once. This exercise is a great way to learn a scale so [...]

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Ex-013 Sweep Picking ii-V-I

Patrick MacFarlane — Mon, 09 May 2016 23:57:18 +0000

Learn to sweep pick a ii-V-I progression in this exercise using the tritone substitution to play faster. This exercise uses three chords based on the A form (rooted on the 5th string). In the key [...]

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