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Cmaj7 Alternate Picking Shapes

Written by Alfred Potter
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Here I have arranged the notes of a Cmaj7 chord into some seriously handy scale-like shapes. Pick through these, work them into your own soloing and get ready to jam with a whole new sound. While using every note in any…

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…

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