If you would like to polish up your string skipping technique and learn some new patterns, try this etude on for size.

The rhythm part of 'Skip This Etude!' lesson. If you want to practice prog riffing, check this lesson out!

A three-in-one exercise, effective for cleaning up your alternate string skipping and picking technique.

Let's get off the crazy shred stuff and work on something equally important. String skipping is an important thing, and it is difficult even if not played lightning fast. In this lesson we will incorporate string skipping and alternate picking, create a melody, which can even work as an intro to a song, using several scale boxes of C#. If you are ready to skip some strings - check this one out!

In this guitar lesson I used a classic taste of the old country and blues style. Delta blues men like Skip James, John Hurt, Big Joe Williams and Charlie Patton use this kind of rhythm.

Again three notes, again skip, again this wonderful technique, at the end of this trip you will be ready to play in economy way - but for the moment keep on practice!

Let's work on some clean strumming and some slow licks, as well as new chord shapes. The lesson can be played on acoustic guitar, but you'll have to skip a little vibrato stuff at the end (not that important). Take a look at this one and you will get some highly useful approaches down!