Alternate Picking Lesson 3

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Welcome to my 3rd Alternate picking lesson. This time we'll pay more attention to your pinky so if you think you need some excercise for your pinky - this is the right place for you. We'll also practice something a lot of guitarplayers don't - and that is - single string runs. These excercises are vital for your right hand picking! Enjoy it!

--Pavel

Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments

Elson	29th March 2007
Member	A good lesson on practising my right hand fast picking..Anyway, Can i know what key is this licks on? thanks , pavel

Pavel	29th March 2007
Instructor	If you visit the video 1 you'll see i said it's in C-Major!

Gren	29th March 2007
Member	Awesome lesson! I need to improve pinky work...

The Uncreator	30th March 2007
Fire Up The Blades, Moderator	Ah ha, another great lesson, good stuff, pavel, keep up the awesome work

TommyA	5th April 2007
Member	PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHEN DOING ALTERNATE PICKING DO YOU HIT EACH NOTE ONCE OR YOU DOUBLE PICK EACH NOTE I THINK MY PICKING IS MOVING FASTER THAN MY FINGERS

stratman33	5th April 2007
Member	Tommy, you pick the note once.i have the same problem,my picking hand is moving so much faster than my fingers.thats why im doing exercises including all 4 fingers.

atconner	5th April 2007
Member	Pavel man, your lessons rock, but your chin makes this video hillarious.

Pavel	5th April 2007
Instructor	Hahaha cool! The point is to make the video funny and useful, right? Well - there you have it hahaha!!!

shredmandan	6th April 2007
Member	I just now noticed that your pickup switch is set at neck or neck and middle.What are you using ,?humbucker and pickup wise?And do you prefer that over bridge?

Pavel	7th April 2007
Instructor	I use bridge humbucker for riffing and slow parts of solos, also for parts when i want my guitar to scream. When it comes to shred and even sweeping sometimes, i switch to neck humbucker - it gives me smoother sound for fast runs. Tapping is best with bridge pickup.

Aaron	16th May 2007
Member	pretty simple but no matter what you play ,pavel, eveything sounds awesome

Ibanex	24th May 2007
Member	I'm confused. Your video-texts say count in groups of three, but in GP wrote in groups of 4 notes per beat (sixteenth).

Pavel	24th May 2007
Instructor	Yes because there is no way i can write 16th notes in GP to make it in groups of 3. GP won't let me do it! I said to think of it in groups of 3 to understand sequences and how to build your own licks and sequences.

Andrew Cockburn	25th May 2007
Theory Instructor & Moderator	QUOTE (Pavel @ May 24 2007, 03:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes because there is no way i can write 16th notes in GP to make it in groups of 3. GP won't let me do it! I said to think of it in groups of 3 to understand sequences and how to build your own licks and sequences. I think you can do this under the note menu with the "break beams" and "force beams" option, if I understand what you are trying to do ...

Pavel	25th May 2007
Instructor	Yeah i found it - thanks for the tip! But anyway you just have to visualize groups of 3 instead of 4 notes and that's the whole problem! Because when you meet real notes in life nobody will write them with breaking beams so you should get used to it as fast as possible! (not you Andrew, i am just talking in general hehe)

Andrew Cockburn	25th May 2007
Theory Instructor & Moderator	QUOTE (Pavel @ May 25 2007, 03:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah i found it - thanks for the tip! But anyway you just have to visualize groups of 3 instead of 4 notes and that's the whole problem! Because when you meet real notes in life nobody will write them with breaking beams so you should get used to it as fast as possible! (not you Andrew, i am just talking in general hehe) Yes, great advice in general - don't get hung up on exactly what the little dots say, they aren't the music, they are just an attempt to tie it down for long enough that someone else can understand it. The music is what you hear, feel and play!

ballistic31	2nd July 2007
Member	being that it is...playing ani difranco style acoustic...for so long ....i never knew i would have a hard time with this alternate picking stuff.....but it has proved to make me feel like a novice......i need to break some bad habits it seems.....gulp help lol

Carlos Carrillo	24th March 2008
Instructor	nice lesson Pavel!!!

Danilo Capezzuto	6th April 2008
Instructor	Good alternate picking lesson.