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Diatonic and pentatonic boxes and triads:
Should be learning these as you have time. Just use them as warm-up excercises.
Gotcha
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Lydian beginner solo:
Would like you to post a take ASAP. Doesn't need to be full speed. I want to see you work on that picking lick for sure. Drop the bpm down to 50 and do the 1 min thing all the way up to 90. Take 5 min a day and do it every day if possible this week and tell me if you don't see a difference.
Yep.
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Kaz-box excercise:
No time frame on this just whenever you get a chance. I know you have limited time.
Oh, I'll have a couple of sweet licks by the end of the month. No worries.
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Lydian collab:
Solo over Muris's backing. Would like to see something on this by the end of the month if possible. Will help you learn your triads and diatonic and pentatonic boxes.
Yep, a varied original solo coming up! Dunno how good it will be, but I can do it.
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One thing I would really love to see you incorporate into your practice routine is some sort of consistent technique workout. I am composing some etude's over Muris's picking lesson that he is having me work on. I've done one for tapping and I am going to do one for legato and economy picking as well. They are really efficient for working on your technique. Once you memorize them you can play them for like 20 minutes and get a really good workout for that technique. I'm gonna post a take of my tapping etude later this week and you can tell me what you think. I know you have limited time but I would like to see you get some sort of consistent technique workout. Up to you though.
This makes sense. Except I don't really know what to focus on. I've never been able to pin down anything in particular I want to work on.
"I want to be better at tapping" "I want to be better at bends" "I want to be better at legato" I've never had anything in particular in mind... I just want to be better at all of it. Right now being able to sync my hands and just play above my painfully slow current speed is all I'm focused on. As I dont feel I'll ever be able to play much lead guitar if I cant. Like bar 11 in the beginner Lydian thing. To me that is fast playing. Thats 360 bpm after all! But to most people they wouldnt call that fast. So my focus is on picking and fretting simultaneously at speeds above where I am now.
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One thing I noticed from watching your videos is you don't really alternate pick consistently.
Oh yeah? Well you're ugly.
kidding of course.
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Watch the video.
Any particular video I should look at?
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When you go from a lower string to a higher string, most of the time you do a downstroke regardless of which way your pick is already moving. This will hurt your speed and this is where slowing the metronome WAY down will help. At the really slow tempos you can really focus on the motions because you aren't struggling so much trying to play the lick.
Yeah, when going from a lower string to a higher string, if I just did a downstroke I'll do a second downstroke. Cuz to me thats less movement than moving my picking hand down and scooping under the next string to come up.
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I have been working on this lick for about 3 months and am now just barely getting to where I can play it in the 40-60 bpm range in it's correct phrasing of 32nd note triplets. GET USED TO DOING THIS!! 
