"major" Scale Excercises, **Intermediates** Options

[Chris Evans]

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: 783


Played 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: 432

Here 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: 497


Exercise 2

Video 2 :  Major_part_3.mpg ( 9.54MB ) Number of downloads: 536


Slow Video :  Slow_Video_2.mpg ( 9.44MB ) Number of downloads: 354


Same 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: 536


slow video :  Slow_video_3.mpg ( 9.12MB ) Number of downloads: 357


Same 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: 405


Slow video :  Slow_Video_4.mpg ( 11.6MB ) Number of downloads: 399



Various Backing track speeds

220BPM :  Major_workout_audio_main_backing_220bpm.mp3 ( 755.44K ) Number of downloads: 497

180BPM :  Major_workout_audio_main_backing_180bpm.mp3 ( 926.64K ) Number of downloads: 387

150BPM :  Major_workout_audio_main_backing_150bpm.mp3 ( 1.08MB ) Number of downloads: 388

110BPM :  Major_workout_audio_main_backing_110bpm.mp3 ( 1.48MB ) Number of downloads: 366

90BPM :  Major_workout_audio_main_backing_90bpm.mp3 ( 1.81MB ) Number of downloads: 371



I 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

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This post has been edited by Smells: Sep 15 2008, 02:03 PM