What Techniques Should A Guitar Player Practice?

Hey there everyone so today i wanted to do a more open episode where i give you three tips on how to really transform your technique and i wanted to be very very open about the way i approach my practice and maybe you can benefit from some of the ideas i will share with you today make sure to stay tuned till the end of this video because i might add might another example that will really make your playing happy let’s start with the first exercise that involves legato playing before we begin guys please make sure to hit that subscribe button as well as the like button so you don’t miss any of my videos or my live streams and let’s start and this is the exercise.

Legato

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Let me do that again slowly so notice i’m not using the right hand at all it’s like only left hand playing.

Now what you’re going to do is you’re going to play the exact same thing on the upper string moving on to the b string moving on to g [Music]. Just letting your hand get used to the different tensions of the strings [Music].

You really you really want to keep this clean as possible and with especially if you’re playing with a drum or a metronome keep good timing. One, two, three, four [Music].

Now you can start and incorporate these kind of patterns until your scale you’re playing. So let’s say you’re playing like a c minor pentatonic scale you can start like try and move with these kind of patterns within your pentatonic improvisation. Let me show you an example. Something like that [Music].

Sweep Picking

So here is the second exercise and this one involves sweep picking so here is the exercise.

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Let me play that slowly for you first of all as you guys know from previous episodes I’m a sus arpeggio fanatic and this is the kind of arpeggios I love practicing to warm up. So this is pretty easy because they only use three attached strings and I’m also using a pull-off at the beginning.

So I have this pattern. So 13 8 just like pulling off and then up up. Then to come back I go down down down and using another up at the end. So I have down pull up up down down down hammer.

You can also just go down down down hammer. Down down down hammer notice I’m moving this in steps same pattern from G you can do the same pattern for C and from D or you can reverse. You can also go down up up down up is also an option down down down up alternating between the two options so that will be down up up same shape down I mean down up up up so you have down up up up down up up up down up up up and then down down down up down down down up down [Music].

Alternate Picking

All right everyone now I’m going to show you a great alternate picking exercise and it goes like this.

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All right so what’s going on over here I’m just playing a chromatic then going up a whole step and doing the same thing then going up a step again [Music].

So chromatic half a step chromatic step chromatic object.

Bonus – Hybrid Picking

All right everyone you stick till the end and as promised here is the bonus exercise and this one is hybrid picking.

That means holding the pick using the pick we’re gonna use a downstroke and two of these fingers so a combination would sound like this [Music]. Down finger finger [Music].

And we’re going to use open triads to use those so we’re gonna do down finger finger using a d chord playing the root the five the third or fifth fret seventh fret seventh fret then moving on to other open threads same chord first inversion over here it’s going to be the 9th fret 7 and 10 and then we have 7 7 and 10 over here so we get this [Music].

Just nice and slowly and relaxed getting used to this new movement down down finger finger down finger finger. Then when you’re ready move on to some other chords like a minor or g putting them all together [Music].

Outro

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