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- Picking WorkoutLEVEL 2For beginners ready to move on from chord strumming. The exercise is prepared with harmonic content to make practicing more interesting.
- Alternate Picking BasicsLEVEL 3Licks examples and detailed explanations of how to start working on the right hand alternate picking technique, including hand positions, basic mechanics of the movement, pick angles, hand angles, strength management.
- Alternate Picking RiffsLEVEL 6140 BPM heavy progression - improve your timing and speed!
- Strict Alternate PickingLEVEL 6The most aggressive-sounding picking there is. NB not for the faint-hearted!
- Alternate Picking - My ApproachLEVEL 8This short lesson demonstrates how to develop accurate and precise alternate picking, not concentrating on speed but on achieving a clean and aggressive sound at any speed.
- Alternate PickingLEVEL 5Right hand exercise, dressed with famous Cannon Rock chord progression. Bored while practicing with metronome? Check this out. Practice alternate picking with different rhythm values. Improve switching between different speeds in the same tempo - from quarter, through triplets to 16th notes.
- Alternate Picking 2LEVEL 3Moderate tempo (8th notes in 160 bpm), neoclassical picking practice, combined with basic major and minor shapes. Palm muting added to make "question-response" contrast. Good warm-up for beginner alternate pickers.
- Alternate Picking WorkoutLEVEL 5Alternate Picking lesson at the level 6. Contains medium fast picking and different variations of licks - ascending, descending and two string skipping options. Speed itself is not as much the challenge, as the position shifts and string skipping.
- Alternate Picking WorkoutLEVEL 6For intermediate players inspired by Paul Gilbert and Yngwie Malmsteen.
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mariemusic22nd July 2009wowwww!!! amazing workouts! Please post more!!! Thanks
berko6th September 2008
so many notes in 22 seconds 
Dessa29th April 2008Thats gonna be a hard...
Carlos Carrillo20th February 2008hey pavel,you rock guy !!!!
Pavel4th January 2008
yeah sure 
Ctodd4th January 2008nice...
Are you sure you didn't speed up the video???
Juan M. Valero2nd January 2008WOW, excellent lesson Pavel !!!! I love this fast picking
I'd like to learn it when I got more time =)- Pavel14th November 2007
I don't think so
But thanks anyway 
- guitarmasterwannabe14th November 2007
are you god? hehe
jammer919th October 2007Im stuck on vid one cause the higher frets are way too small for me to play fast (i keep geeting muted notes).
What do you suggest?- Pavel16th September 2007
Thanks Juan!
Well, you are a JEM-er yourself! - Juan M. Valero14th September 2007
Oh, amazing !!!! Great work Pavel
I love your guitar =) - Pavel26th August 2007
That's great Leedbreak! Lesson 5 is actually Ionian Scale boxes. But sure there will be AP 5 in the future!
leedbreak26th August 2007Well Pavel,
I had put off learning this one for time to spend on other lessons, but I have to say this puppy is and is going the help a lot. I can not believe how well I can play it and it is restarting the desire that had tapered off a bit. Thanks for your work.
And why not do a encore with a lesson 5- misterj14th July 2007
i love all of your alternate picking exercises. for someone who is trying to correct years of bad picking habits, they are really re-training me. keep 'em comin'.
- atomix133711th July 2007
*head explodes*
, Nice one man ! Loved it. 
Eat-Sleep-andJam5th July 2007This is just so great. I find the hardest part of alternate picking , is not picking really fast, but changing strings and picking fast at the same time.
-john- Pavel4th July 2007
Well when you get it down you'll be able to do music with it! It will just allow you to freely improvise and think of new runs all over the neck!
Good job on trying to extend it on 7th string! Keep it up! - ch00ch00man4th July 2007
Pavel,
Its those damn proportionally spaced fonts. Screwed up everything. Basically I just extended the same sequence you used (three shifts, and up...) all the way through the seventh string in C major. The run wound up covering 17 frets (22 - 5)
. I have been reading about and practicing scale sequences for a while now, and I'm starting to get the picture. While its definitely NOT music, it helps me work on the chops, which is what I so desperately need right now. Music will come later.
Thanks for all your help and advice,
Boris - Pavel4th July 2007
Well if it sound ok than enjoy it because i don't have a 7-string guitar and it's kinda hard to keep track of the last string! Well, anyway - if you like it - do it! You can even try doing same kind of run using minor scale - just for practice. I showed you one of many ways to play around the scale so now you can just work on it using any scale!
- ch00ch00man2nd July 2007
Pavel,
I love my 7 string Universe. It is my primary guitar. I play it all the time. I got to thinking about the Rusty Cooley ending, and I wanted to extended it to all 7 strings. This is what I came up with:
|--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
--20-19-17----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------20-18-17-22-20-18-20-18-17-18-17-15----------------------------|
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|--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--| |--6--|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
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--16-14-12----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------15-14-12-17-15-14-15-14-12-14-12-10----------------------------|
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|--6-| |--6-| |--6--| |--6-| |-6-| |-6-| |-6-| |-6-|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
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I wanted to end it on a tonic, and I also like the exaggerated vibrato. What do you think?
Thanks,
Boris - Victafor1st July 2007
dude thats crazy! nice lesson, it looks like you sped up the vid caused ure goin so fast lol
The Uncreator29th June 2007Nice stuff man! Great job as usual, your lessons really help me with my alternate picking.
Kickass job!
Xranthoius29th June 2007HOLY BLEEP THATS FAST
Ryan28th June 2007That accenting really does help HAHA who knew
. Atleast i understand it now. I thought before you just accented what you wanted to!!- stratman3328th June 2007
WOW!I'm speechless....
GroovinMastiff28th June 2007Amazing! Just what I need. I've been practicing your other alternate picking lessons religiously, and I am stoked with how much I'm improving! Can't wait to start this one so that I can push my picking even further.
Thanks Pavel- Pavel28th June 2007
Yes, progress like that is normal. And also the ascending runs are more difficult for me than descending. So you are not alone in the boat!
Keep practicing and you'll improve a bunch!! - ch00ch00man28th June 2007
Pavel,
Btw, these are my favorite exercises. I would say that about 80% of my practice session is dedicated to Alternate Picking 1, 2, and 3 (and no, I don't get bored). I have been doing it for about two months, two hours a day (7 days a week). I feel like I progress in spurts. I wont see any improvement for a week or so, and then bang, I see improvement. Is that normal? Also, my descending speed/control is much better then my ascending. Do you know why thats so? Keep these exercises coming, I love em.
Thanks,
Boris - Pavel28th June 2007
I have a slight delay and also my room is not perfectly isolated so i get a re-verb from the camera mic.
You can always use a bit of delay to make the sound fuller. I use to make sound better! But it doesn't mean you have to crank delay to 10 - ch00ch00man28th June 2007
Pavel,
I hear an echo on some of the videos. Is there an echo in the room or are you using a delay? Does the delay give you a fuller sound? I'm wondering if I should practice with delay (if it is delay), or just clean?
Thanks,
Boris - Eat-Sleep-andJam28th June 2007
Ok I get it.
Thanks.-John - jammer9128th June 2007
OMG THAT WAS FAST... I cant get the speed right in the previous 1's yet!!!
Better pick up my guitar - Pavel28th June 2007
Eat-Sleep-andJam:
Accent is pointing out a note - basically - playing slightly stronger/louder than the others. In practicing it gives you more control but later when you get it to fast speeds you reduce it to minimum and it becomes just as other notes. It's very useful for practicing and learning to use sequences, practicing with metronome AND it really helps in breaking the licks apart when you have loads of notes!
When you speed it up - it ALMOST disappears.
Thanks for the comments guys! 
Gen28th June 2007aaaaaaaa haha, extremly fast, but im gonna try
Great work!- Eat-Sleep-andJam28th June 2007
I love this. Ive been doing alternate picking for around 5 months ( intensely ) and this is just what I needed. I was sad when I though you were going to stop at just 3 alternate picking lessons. ;( ,
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About the accents . Is it basically just making the first not on each string stand out to make a like a unique flow to the sequence ? And what is the result of not using accents in runs like this?
Sloppier Playing ?
- Thanks, John - Gustavo28th June 2007
damn too much notes!!!!
Yonrak28th June 2007Holy crap
Maybe I'll try this in a year or so
Robin28th June 2007HAHA! Thats craaaazy man! Nice work!
ZakkWylde28th June 2007Wow!
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Welcome to my new Alternate Picking lesson! Today we'll work on some really fast stuff using 6ths (6-tuplets)and only a C-Major scale. This lesson also includes a way of breaking out of borring "up-down" scale runs and some Rusty Cooley style runs. I'm sure after learning this one up the speed you'll improve a bunch in your picking and left hand work. There is also some talking about accentuating notes in playing. See ya all inside!From this course:
- Alternate Picking Lesson 1LEVEL 8At first look - this lesson may look difficult - but even if you are a beginning guitarist I suggest you start practicing this one because it will show essential ways to practice scale boxes and alternate picking. You don't have to play this lightning fast right away. Start practicing slowly to develop the correct right hand picking. Now let's dive into the world of alternate picking!
- Alternate Picking Lesson 2LEVEL 8Time for the second Alternate Picking Lesson. In this lesson we will move down to 3rd and 4th strings to make it more interesting and also to practice your thumb as this excercise will force you to KEEP YOUR THUMB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NECK - as well as to force you to MUTE THE STRINGS you don't play. So if you are ready for more shred - get in here!!
- Alternate Picking Lesson 3LEVEL 8This time we'll pay more attention to your pinky so if you think you need some excercise for your pinky - this is the right place for you. We'll also practice something a lot of guitarplayers don't - and that is - single string runs. These excercises are vital for your right hand picking! Enjoy it!
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