Picking

In our last blog post, we looked at a cool picking exercise that really works our pinky. Now let’s look at another 8-note repeating pattern that uses alternate picking. Here’s the lick: In this one, the left had is not as difficult, but the picking is much more challenging. Again, I’m going to demonstrate this …

Scale sequences are melodic ideas that you repeat on each note of a scale. I’ve talked about these before… One very common one is called “1-2-3-4”, just going straight up (or straight down) a scale , 4 notes at a time, then starting on the next note. It works particularly well descending down the pentatonic …

Ok, I have a nice little lesson for you today… The last few lessons were mostly geared toward beginners so I thought I would teach something more advanced today. I was playing around in the key of C major. The first thing I will mention is the incredible value of learning a scale (such as …