Piotr Kaczor6th June 2013I swear I hate most versions of Canon Rock, but this workout is killer and extremely useful! Great sound and cool backing track!
Darius Wave6th June 2013Thank You Piotr!
I tried to make praciticing less boring 
Patrik Berg6th June 2013this is what I need to work on, alternate picking, thank you Darius
- Darius Wave6th June 2013
You're wellcome Patrik
David Vagabond6th June 2013Great lesson ! I start right now !
zoom6th June 2013Cool Darius! I've been working on Emir's Turkish March and this is the same style so should be cool to learn. Cheers mate!
DeGroot6th June 2013Excellent! What a fun way to learn all the different picking patterns. Really like the speed picking parts.
- Darius Wave6th June 2013
Thank You guys! I hope this would very usefull since I use it myself
Javier Aviles6th June 2013Fantastic exercise to clean picking technique. Greets!
Nava6th June 2013Great! So many techniques :-)
Love ur tone! AP is so difficult, I will surely look this out!
wollace036th June 2013wow, cool lesson /exercise and a very cool guitar!
Sensible Jones6th June 2013Just what I need!! A more musical approach to AP exercises!! Thanks mate!!!
Hajduk6th June 2013Killer lesson
- Darius Wave6th June 2013
Thanx GMC maniacs
Get Your guitar and start to work out Maybe You'll have Your own cool concepts to improve Your picking , using those backing tracks. There are different tempos so It's best to fit Your current abilities and focus on the precision ))) So glad You all enjoy this 
Romko7th June 2013Good lesson. Thank you.
TreyDeschamp7th June 2013Awesome lesson! This will be a useful tool, especially the end parts.
sammetal928th June 2013Amazing!
SteveGuitar8th June 2013Thank you Darius, it's really fun and helping me =)
- Darius Wave9th June 2013
This is always cool feeling when You do something helpful
Thank You all! 
Gabriel Leopardi12th June 2013Killer lesson! Well done Darius! I'll be following this workouts!
- Darius Wave12th June 2013
Thanx Gab!
John Hatcher13th June 2013Daruis - I was with you until around the 35 second mark. Ha! Great lesson and a really cool approach. This is something I need to work on.
- Darius Wave13th June 2013
Thank You John...I think with Your blue style and different musical target You won't need to reach anything after 35 second
Anyway It's an honour that You've viewed and try the lesson All best from Poland - PeteLucifersAngels14th June 2013
Great lesson! I think this can end up helping me a lot! I will try to practice this every day!
- Darius Wave15th June 2013
Great! Than please share with us Your progress
Ben Higgins24th June 2013Awesome lesson, Darius ! I'm a big believer in teaching yourself to improve by using small bursts
- Sound7th July 2013
This is great My ears love this.
- Darius Wave8th July 2013
Then let Your fingers love it too
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Huargo30th November 2013i'm using it this right now!!, very good one Darius!!
- Darius Wave30th November 2013i'm using it this right now!!, very good one Darius!!
Great! Let me know if You need any additional help with this one - nreach2621st May 2014
Darius I have subscribed to GMT lessons just after a looking at your lessons. I have tried GT and Jamplay both. but GMT is the most effective way of picking up pace. thanks.
- Darius Wave22nd May 2014
Thanx for Your kind words
I'm glad You enjoy my lessons - Artur Sikora16th July 2014
Great lesson! Very helpful for my person!
- Darius Wave16th July 2014
I'm always happy to see players enjoy it
Thank You Artur 
Tagaluchi15th March 2015Great lessons man!
- Darius Wave16th March 2015
Thank You Tagaluchi!
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Hi there GMC'ers!
Here's a first lesson of the Alternate picking workout series!
Practicing with the metronome can be really boring. It's good to practice some basic shapes, but to make it more interesting, let's do it with some drums and famous "Canon Rock" chord progression. It won't be a form of a song with a melody priority. This would be an exercise that will help to improve timming, rhythm execution and changing between slow and fast movements. Good balance between hard and soft/relaxed movements is more than very important while playing fast. If we practice only fast licks, then we could have problems to find moments for loosing the tension of our right hand. This exercise is a way to don't get bored with listening to metronome's click and still spend some time on practicing basic alternate picking shapes.
To help You better fit the timming, first part of the track is supported with bass drum beats equal to guitar rhythm. Than the bass drum leaves You "on Your own" to handle the similar rhythm sections as in the "supported part".
Gear used:
* Hufschmid Headless electric guitar
* Presonus Inspire 1394 audio interface
* TSE X50 vst plug-in with catharsis 1on-pres5 cab impulse for solo guitar
* Spector Performer 4-str bass
* Ernie Ball 10-46 slinky strings with standard E tuning.
Tuning: standard tuning E-A-D-G-B-E
Backing track progression is based on the famous "Canon Rock" and repeated through all the exercise:
4/4 C | G | Am | Em | F | C | F | G ||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 180 bpm. There are also backing tracks available in 80, 120, 150 and 180 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
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