Getting That Speed, Improving Your Alternate Picking, Its not how fast you can play, Its the reverse!
maharzan
May 5 2011, 03:35 PM
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Okay, I sent this particular video to one of my friends/student and he felt an improvement in his picking technique, clean, accurate. So just wanted to post this here too as I am super excited its working for others as it worked for me. While there are tonnes of exercises out there, I just compiled 3 basic Alternate Picking exercises that seems to work. smile.gif

Video:
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As you can see, these are super easy (as it looks) exercises and anyone should be able to do it. It doesn't have to be super duper fast but the main goal is to play SLOW, CLEAN and ACCURATE. Start with 60bpm (as in the video) or even 40bpm if you cannot do 60bpm. Once you REALLY MASTER it at that tempo, gradually increase it. I will love to see if you can actually get it to 130bpm or 150bpm.

These exercises tackles few hurdles that most AP lands into, such as odd picking (up down up on time and down up down next), inside / outside picking. You can try these exercises anywhere in the fretboard and you will notice they are actually different. Doing it in first 2 strings (E & cool.gif is very different from doing it in last 2 strings ( E & A). Similarly, doing it in first few frets is very different from say 12th few frets.

TABS
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Ex 1.
CODE
------------5---------
---5--7--8-----8--7---



Ex 2.
CODE
---9--5--7--9--7--5---



Ex 2.
CODE
----------7---
---8--10------


Hope that helps you too. If you have any questions, let me know.

Thanks,
Chandra

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- maharzan   Getting That Speed, Improving Your Alternate Picking   May 5 2011, 03:35 PM
- - zen   Hmm .. Where's the rest of it ? I like it....   May 11 2011, 10:20 AM
- - maharzan   Hey zen, Howdy man? Great you like. I will gather...   May 11 2011, 11:17 AM
- - Fran   Good stuff Chandra   May 11 2011, 12:26 PM
- - maharzan   Thank you Fran. I hope those who are struggling wi...   May 11 2011, 12:44 PM
- - quadrium   Great lesson Chandra! I will definitely use th...   May 11 2011, 04:09 PM
- - snackajacks   Ive been following you for a while and read some o...   May 11 2011, 05:36 PM
- - Azzaboi   Great lesson, Maharzan! Some tips when learni...   May 11 2011, 09:22 PM
|- - Todd Simpson   Very well done Azza! I'm so proud I can ba...   May 12 2011, 02:41 AM
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- - maharzan   Thanks Quad. @snackajacks -- Thanks. I am using a...   May 12 2011, 05:48 AM
|- - Todd Simpson   Very well done on your technique here This is qui...   May 22 2011, 07:44 AM
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- - Fran   Excellent thread By the way I just added this ne...   May 13 2011, 01:07 PM
- - maharzan   Thank you Fran.   May 13 2011, 02:03 PM
- - Sean_1234   Hey Chandra, very nice lesson, thanks a lot! ...   May 17 2011, 06:41 PM
- - maharzan   Thanks Sean. Its a lesson on how you need practice...   May 22 2011, 02:38 AM
- - maharzan   Absolutely, its just practice! Thats how I got...   May 23 2011, 03:09 PM
- - Mudbone   Another great post by maharzan   May 23 2011, 07:39 PM
- - maharzan   Thanks Mudbone.   May 29 2011, 10:20 AM
- - Gabriel Leopardi   Great exercises in the video! I use to practic...   Jun 28 2011, 04:39 PM
- - Ivan Milenkovic   How could I miss this awesome lesson!! Wel...   Aug 31 2011, 09:50 PM
- - Sinisa Cekic   Well done ,man !   Aug 31 2011, 10:32 PM
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