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Mixed Scale Runs: Picking + Legato

Written by Alfred Potter
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Blast through your scale runs and create subtle texture differences in sound by mixing picking and legato. While there's little more satisfying than a perfectly executed alternate picking run, I'm a huge fan of injecting legato into the mix. Why?…

Introduction to 3-notes-per-string scale sequences

Written by Alfred Potter
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The following scale shape is the Aeolian mode, otherwise known as the natural minor, the full minor, the minor scale and so on. I firmly believe that the 3-note-per-string scale shapes are the only modal scale shapes needed. Box shapes…

Clean Up Your Alternate Picking

Written by Alfred Potter
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A hugely under discussed aspect of alternate picking is that of picking hand imbalance and the trouble it can cause. Alternate picking is when notes are executed by the picking hand in an alternating manner - a downstroke followed by…

The Mystical Romanian Scale

Written by Alfred Potter
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Try something new and check out the Romanian scale! The Romanian scale is actually the 4th mode of the harmonic minor scale. It has a rich and exotic sound when played and features the following intervals: Root, 2nd, minor 3rd, sharp 4th, 5th,…

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