Lesson Series: “0 To 60, An Introduction to Alternate Picking” - Lesson 70

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Todd Simpson
Todd Simpson

LESSON #70 - Endurance Intensive


Let’s take a break from our Soloing In Context work and focus a bit on sheer speed and endurance. Once of the main things holding some players back from being able to play what they want, feel, hear in their head/heart, is that simple fact that their hands lack the endurance to keep up with their creativity. The good news, this is very simple to fix. It just takes........PRACTICE! Let’s warm up.


FINGER YOGA! - Let’s do our usual Finger Yoga stretches.



Let’s add some complexity in to our work. Let’s take this Minor pattern and run it as a open string single pick strike then two hammer ons.


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And the Guitar Pro Tablature File.


Let’s invert this shape and do the same things. Open string alt pick,


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And the Guitar Pro Tablature File.


LESSON LINKS

Here is a link to the Guitar Rig Patch from Today’s Lesson


Free Software For Recording (Guitar Rig Free, and Pod Farm Demo and Reaper, etc.)