"major" Scale Excercises, **Intermediates** |
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Sep 15 2008, 01:53 PM
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Scale Exercises
 This is exactly the same lesson as for the beginners exercises, the challenge is purely to play it all faster, as an intermediate player I like to find as many of these kind of exercises as possible, I find they help me mainly with my timing, but also with picking techniques. They help keep your fingers in shape and you still need to concentrate on various aspects of your playing. This originally was going to be just one lesson and one post aimed at the beginner, however, the original 220BPM video`s may have made the exercises seem a little too difficult for the beginner which is why I decided to split this lesson into two, and aim one purely at beginners and one at intermediates  I`ll not waffle too much and get straight into the exercises Exercise 1  One scale pattern ascending and descending, starting in the Key of C The key progression is as follow C, D, E, F, D, E, C Tabs are not really required, if you follow the patterns it is straightforward enough Video 1 : 
Major_part_1_Main.mpg ( 9.32MB )
Number of downloads: 783Played at 220BPM, sounds fast, but its not too bad once you get into it, you may want to loop the backing to double the length of the exercise Slow Video :
Slow_Video_1.mpg ( 7.9MB )
Number of downloads: 431Here I`m playing just the C scale for demo purposes. Backing track at 220BPM: 
Major_workout_audio_main_backing_220bpm.mp3 ( 755.44K )
Number of downloads: 495Exercise 2 Video 2 :
Major_part_3.mpg ( 9.54MB )
Number of downloads: 534Slow Video :
Slow_Video_2.mpg ( 9.44MB )
Number of downloads: 353Same backing track as exercise Using the pattern in excercise 1 for ascending run then this pattern  For the descending run, I tend to use this exercise for alternate picking and legato and turning it into a three note per string exercise. Exercise 3 (the reverse) Same pattern shapes as exercise 2 but reversed, so we are now ascending with the three note per string pattern and descending with exercise ones pattern. Video 3 :
Major_part_3.mpg ( 9.54MB )
Number of downloads: 534slow video :
Slow_video_3.mpg ( 9.12MB )
Number of downloads: 357Same backing speed as first two exercises. Exercise 4 Using the three note per string patterns for ascending and descending runs, probably the most interesting excerise out of the four, I like this exercise a lot and probably the one I use the most. Video 4 :
Major_Part_4.mpg ( 9.44MB )
Number of downloads: 405Slow video :
Slow_Video_4.mpg ( 11.6MB )
Number of downloads: 399Various Backing track speeds 220BPM :
Major_workout_audio_main_backing_220bpm.mp3 ( 755.44K )
Number of downloads: 495180BPM :
Major_workout_audio_main_backing_180bpm.mp3 ( 926.64K )
Number of downloads: 387150BPM :
Major_workout_audio_main_backing_150bpm.mp3 ( 1.08MB )
Number of downloads: 387110BPM :
Major_workout_audio_main_backing_110bpm.mp3 ( 1.48MB )
Number of downloads: 36490BPM :
Major_workout_audio_main_backing_90bpm.mp3 ( 1.81MB )
Number of downloads: 371I hope these will be of some use to you, they are something to play when your looking for finger exercises any questions just ask Chris This post has been edited by Smells: Sep 15 2008, 02:03 PM -------------------- |
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Sep 15 2008, 08:19 PM
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Great Excercies mate, very usefull
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Sep 15 2008, 09:23 PM
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Great lesson Smells, thanks for putting it up together and sharing the knowledge.
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Sep 15 2008, 09:24 PM
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Top notch lesson Smells!
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Sep 16 2008, 04:03 AM
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Awesome... you made something that is usually boring to do alot of fun... thanks, im gonna work on this everynight
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Sep 18 2008, 09:37 AM
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Great lesson Smells
I'll start with the lesson for beginners though, as I need to practice stuff like this
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Sep 24 2008, 07:39 AM
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Nice lesson, gonna work on it tonight right away
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