Show some lick that will give a fresh sound to the old and over used pentatonic. Two concept in particular will spice things up: Rhythmic Displacement and Accent Shifting. This lesson will improve: Pentatonic Knowledge, Phrasing, Rhythmic Displacement, Accent Shifting and Sweep Picking.

Get that combination and coordination of tapping, hammer-ons and pull-offs flowing nicely with a minimum of stops. It can in addition be usefull for those new to tapping to build up some tapping-finger strength.

In this lesson we look at rhythmically shifting where we begin our licks/phrases to recycle old licks and create new sounds

Extend your rhythmic ideas over a static chord progression.

We'll work on rhythmic variations with the tapping technique using one and four fingers.

Second installment of the Phrase Displacement exercises.

In Etude No.2 we look at playing polyrhythms within fingerpicking patterns. This is part two in a series of etudes.

I invite you to travel deep into my head, and explore what goes on in my mind when improvising.

Pentatonic licks with application of string skipping and rhythm displacement.