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Today we are going to work thru some picking exercises. These examples come from a picking exercise that STEVE MORSE (Dixie Dreggs, Steve Morse Band, Deep Purple) designed. In the next lesson we will learn the entire exercise. Today what we will focus on are eight individual ...

This exercise is fairly straight forward. It is all in the open position so the finger and fret number is the same. Play this in eighth notes until you you reach a comfortable speed of about 200 bps, then start at 100 with sixteenth notes. Well have fun and keep jamin!...

Today we are dealing with Economy Picking. Basically Economy Picking Is using the least amount of movement in the picking hand. Personally I believe this technique to be useful. But NEVER ignore Alternate picking exercises because you claim to use Economy Picking. To me...

Today is part 2 in the steve morse picking exercise lesson. There is not much explanation on this one once again all 8th note triplets in 4/4. Remeber to use strict alternate picking, this will help you to develope accuracy and speed. Once again use a metronome play slow...

From: letostak@netcom.com (Judy Letostak) Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 15:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Warmup Ideas letostak@netcom.com (Judy Letostak) Use a metronome with all exercises, and use a clean tone. If at anytime your hands or forearms cramp up or hurt, STOP shake out your hands...

From: gwmorris@wam.umd.edu (Gary Morris) Subject: GREAT FINGERBUILDING TECNQES TAB HERE Throughout reading this newsgroup,Ive heard people asking about tapes and books to improve finger speed and strength. I feel that all these do is offer some good riffs to develop speed...

Today I give you some basic chromatic exercises designed to loosen your fingers and build some stamina at the same time (especially in younger players). Play these as written but don’t stops where the tab stops keep the pattern going all the way up the neck as far as you can...

Title: Power Chords Level: Beginner Style: Heavy Metal Rhythm Instructor: Ky MacPherson Hey kids, its Ky again! Today we will learn about power chords! Last time we learned the Half-Step and Whole-Step intervals. To start this lesson off we will learn a new interval: the...

Chromatic Exercises Pt.1 I personally feel that a guitar player can benefit greatly from the use of chromatic exercises. So in this section I will from time to time place lessons that demonstrate some chromatic exercises. The following exercises are great for developing the...

Subject: GUITAR L.O.T.W. – # 20 Status: RO Title: Heavy Metal Guitar, Lesson I: The Basics Level: Beginner Style: Heavy Metal Instructor: Kevin Marcus Why? When I first bought my guitar, all I wanted to do was play heavy metal licks, and after playing the intro to Enter...