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I called it intelligent Picking and it´s a mix of alternate and sweep picking!

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Lead Guitar Lesson – Picking Secret. Intelligent Picking
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here from guitarcontrol.com.
How’s it going today? I want to talk about some new picking
concepts and let’s start off with this pattern here.

Basically I’m descending down the scale five notes at a time.
Now this pattern actually came out of a similar pentatonic
pattern. I was playing something like this. So the pentatonic
version of this actually is an example from my new course,
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Anyway, I like the idea of five-note patterns because they’re
kind of asymmetrical and kind of challenge your fingers in new
and different ways. So I started playing a five-note sequence
just using alternate picking and it really wasn’t very efficient.
So then I thought, why not use this kind of same picking strategy
with a diatonic scale. So let’s just start off with the pentatonics
because it’s more basic.

What I’m doing here is I’m using alternate picking for the first
five notes, down-up, down-up, down, then I do another downstroke.
Down-up, down-up, down and then down again. It’s like a little
sweep and, again, just combining the alternate picking with
economy picking.

If you’re not familiar with these terms, economy picking refers
to economy of motion. So if I was playing something like…arpeggio,
if you look at my picking hand it’s just going straight down.
Not wasting any motions, not going up and down. It’s just straight
to the next string.

Now, the opposite of that is alternate picking where I’m always
alternating between a downstroke and an upstroke. A typical shred
pattern would be like this: down-up, down and then up. Now, notice
when I go up I’m going past the string and then hitting it on the
way back.

The economy picking school of thought would say that’s inefficient.
You’re wasting the motion. But in practice it doesn’t always turn
out that the shortest distance is the easiest thing for your fingers
because then you have to switch direction. So it’s often easier to
go past the string and then since you’re going to have to switch
directions anyway, you’ll hit it on the way back. And that’s why
you can play fast and play these patterns.

With this pattern you’re using both. When it makes sense using
alternate picking to start and then you do a little sweep just
to get to the next string. I’m calling this intelligent picking.
You can figure out for each lick or phrase the best way to pick
it using a combination of trial and error and your own intuition.
How your friend might pick it might be a little different than
how you are going to pick it. But you want to find the most
natural way to pick something.

So with this diatonic pattern it’s the same thing. It’s down,
up, down, up, down. Just going down five notes and then sweep
with another downstroke. Notice when I get to here I have to
do a little slide. The left hand is another topic. We could
talk about that in another lesson.

I want you to get this concept of intelligent picking using
a combination of alternate picking and economy picking. So
pick any lick, phrase, whatever and just play around with
different ways to pick things and I think it’s a very powerful
concept that should enrich your playing.

That’s all for today. Have an awesome day, awesome weekend
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I’m out of here. Catch you next time.

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Secret Sauce – Amazing Sounding Lead Guitar Pattern
So now I want to show you guys the exact secret sauce that I
use to create those fast licks.

The first pattern we’re going to be going down three notes —
and this, by the way, is the 17th fret — 17th, 15th, 12th.
So we go down three notes and then to the next string. And
then we go back up. And then — so that’s a complete pattern.
So you go down, up, down and then down and up on the same
string. So real slow. You get that? Play it with me. I’m using
pull-offs here. So just pick it once and then pick. I’m really
picking when I’m going across the strings, but I’m using
hammer-ons and pull-offs when I’m on the same string.

Now we’re going to start the same pattern, same exact pattern,
on the next string. We’re always going to follow the note in
that scale. So let me break that down into exactly what I mean.
From the E string to the B string, I am playing the 15th fret.
But then when I get down to the G string, there is no note on
the 15th; it’s only on the 14th. So you could say 17, 15, 12,
and then 15 on the next string. So the next time I do it it’s
still 17, 15, 12, but then it’s 14. But if you understand that
the different notes are on different frets as we go down then
you’ll know what I mean when I say it’s exactly the same pattern.
Okay?

So you put those together.

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By the way, when I’m playing these I’ve got the heel of my
hand kind of holding down the lower strings so they’re not
making noise. I just kind of naturally do that unconsciously.

So this next lick is kind of a classy blues lick. It’s got
a little bit of flashy texture. You’re in the root position,
A pentatonic, starting on the 5th fret B string. You start
here and then you do a triplet, descending down and then
I’m going to do a little sweep starting here and then I’ll
end up here. So real slow. And when I’m picking this I’m
going to do a downstroke to start with and then an upstroke.
I’m not even really picking the B string when I go back down.
Sweep. It really doesn’t matter how you pick some of these.
The idea is just to get fluent so you’re not even really
thinking about picking too much. You can also end this one
like this. Or you could kind of end here and bend up. And
then end it up by going into a different kind of blues lick.

So this next one, we’re in the key of D. We’re going to do two
bends and then kind of slide down. So it sounds like this. We’re
going to bend and release. That’s on the B string. Then I’m going
to bend on the G string. So we’re just kind of connecting the dots.
But then I’m going to slide down from here down to here and pull-off.
So you get a really nice, cool effect by sliding and just kind of
falls into a classic, kind of straight down the scale.

So that brings me to another point. When you’re writing your
own licks, you want to try to use a combination of stepwise
motion, which is just kind of going one note at a time, and
then also jumping around different intervals.

If I’m in the key of D, maybe up here. Notice, — let’s just
take that lick, which I just made up right now. I’m starting
at the top, going down and then back up. Then I jump and then
I walk one note at a time. By using the combination of jumping
and going one note at a time you can come up with some really
cool stuff.

So this next lick goes like this. I’m using three notes per
string and tapping and again, we’ll get into all this stuff
a little bit later in detail. But what I’m doing is I’m doing
this pattern, 10th, 12th, 15th with my first finger, middle
finger and pinkie. And then tapping on the 17th fret. So I’m
going all the way up and back and then up again, just to the
15th. And then I hammer-on to the B string 12th fret and then
on the B string I go down on the 10th fret and then walk it
back up to the 17th.

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Lead Guitar Lesson – SuperCharged Soloing Sample – Melodic Textures

Now in this course I’d like to devise soloing into two basic
categories, melody and what I call texture. If you’re playing
something slow, there’s a clear melody there. La-la-la. Now
technically everything is a melody because everything is notes.
But when you start playing a little bit faster and repeating
stuff you get into what I call texture.

So, for example, the simplest example is kind of like this.
I’m just kind of playing four notes there and repeating it.
So there’s no real melody in the traditional sense. So I like
to call it a melodic texture, but it also has a rhythmic element,
too. I’m hammering-on to the 7th fret and then pulling back off.
Then I’m hitting the 7th fret D string with my middle finger.
Really, my right hand is just picking one note down and then
one note down again. It’s a downstroke, hammer-on/pull-off,
downstroke.

I just want you to be aware of this concept of creating textures
and this is kind of like how we can supercharge our soloing,
is to combine melodies with cool textures.

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