Technique

Tapping, Bending, Finger Exercises, Scale Patterns, etc.

A B C A B C - on one string with alternate picking (Minor Scale - doesn't necessarily need to be Am)  Lesson 4?

then

G A C G A C in 5th position with alternate picking (Pentatonic Scale)

then

G A C G A D in 5th position with alternate picking (Pentatonic Scale)

This should be a fairly early technique lesson basically after the finger gymnastics

Actually had this idea with a Gm arpeggio (moveable) and did a quick jot down of it on just regular paper (not manuscript paper).

Also G major on string 5 and 6 (or 3 and 4) and how economy picking compares to alternate when repeating.   Arpeggio Lesson 9

Slurring - 3 notes per string exercise - pick and then slur

The 4 lessons above should be Technique numbers (Technique Lesson 5, etc.)

The 4 that are currently up above:

  1.  Up and down first 4 notes of a minor scale (Stay)
  2.  6 notes of major scale ascending (3 notes per string) strings 1 and 2
  3.  4 notes of a pentatonic scale on Strings 1 and 2 (same 4 notes starting on different notes -same pattern)
  4.  4 notes of a pentatonic scale up and back down on Strings 3 and 4

Other lessons to make:

6 notes (3 per string) but descending.

Any time you pick up your guitar, you are working on technique.  Every scale, arpeggio and riff you play involves technique.  This section of the site is going to focus on specific techniques like bending, tapping, scale patterns and finger exercises for both strengthening your fingers and challenging your brain.

Tapping

Lesson 1

Finger gymnastics

Lesson 2

Need to cross reference with Scale and Strumming lessons.

This will be the case with the next few lessons.

C major scale in open and 2nd position are in the Scales section and I believe whole, half, quarter and eighth notes are in the strumming.  Must confirm.

Alternate picking vs Natural Picking

Also down picking

Lesson 4

Thinking 3 notes up and repeating:

A B C A B C

Lesson 5

Maybe this should be 3 notes up and one note down?  G A B A

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

This should use the patterns of 3 from the previous lesson but pentatonic and possibly the blues scale.

The blues scale needs to be added to Scale Lesson 8 (I partly feel the blues scale needs a dedicated page - but where would that go now.  It might mean having to change a lot.

Lesson 9

Old Lesson 9 covered a lot of information and connecting both the C Major/A Minor pentatonic boxes in 2nd and 4th were covered.  However that is not a part of the new Lesson 9.

New Main Lesson 9 covers G Major in 7th position.  So this exercise is not going to work for Technique Lesson 9.

This exercise can be played both in any one position or it can also be used with the 4 note patterns from pages above.

Eighth Notes

Eighth Note Triplets

Sixteenth Notes

Lesson 10

Possibly use the same exercise from the previous lesson but using the major scale.

Lesson 11

This exercise has us playing a Gmaj7 arpeggio starting on the major 7th (F#).   We will just play up the arpeggio with sixteenth notes and since there are 4 sixteenth notes in a beat and 4 notes in our arpeggio, we will just repeat this pattern on each beat.

In another lesson we will look at going up and back down.

Next let us try using the same arpeggio and pick it the same way but this time we are playing eighth note triplets which mean 3 evenly spaced notes in each beat.

Notice that when we get to the last note of the arpeggio (D) it is on beat 2.  So even though we will pick this the exact same way, it has quite a different feel.

GUITAR EXERCISE FROM tripfuse STAY

We will look at a couple different positions to play this exercise in.