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