Lesson Series: “0 To 60, An Introduction to Alternate Picking” - Lesson 66

Todd Simpson

LESSON #66 - Neo Classical Approaches

We have been working our speed up focusing on our right hand for several lessons now. Let’s shift a bit and focus on our left hand. We are still going to use our Synch approach, meaning or every pick stroke, a note is fretted. This will help our “Precision”. As has often been said, “Speed is a byproduct of precision”.

Let’s look at our backing track. It’s composed of a variety of shapes and will require a decent finger stretch as well as dexterity of movement. Here is an MP3 Preview. Once you learn the following licks, play them with a metronome until you have them down, then play them with the backing. Go ahead and warm up doing our usual stretches and listen to backing.

MP3 preview

Let's take a look at our shapes. The first part of each is repeated when played with the backing, but in the tab, it's just shown once for simplicity sake.

Here is the GuitarPro file for this shape.

Here is the GuitarPro file for this shape

Here is the GuitarPro file for this shape

Here is the GuitarPro file for this shape.

Practice!