Guitar Picking Exercises - Part II

These guitar exercises are aimed to develop some rhythmic picking elements. And differently from the previous exercises that contain only straight sixteenth and eighth triple notes, these ones also contain pausing, various note durations, and different down/up stroke configurations.

Here's a quick reminder that this symbol    means you need to stroke a string down, and this -     up.

The "Figure" tab shows overall rhythm within an exercise and the Exercise tab lays right below each Figure tab.

I repeated each "figure" twice on the audios in order to get a cleaner vision.

Figure 1

Exercise 1

Figure 2

Exercise 2

Note that alternate picking is good for fast equal in duration note sequences. When you have a "broken rhythm", it's often more comfortable and natural to begin with the downstrokes on each part that goes after a break or long ringing note.

Figure 3

Exercise 3

This exercise reminds me the main riff of Block Rockin' Beats Theme by Chemical Brothers ;)

Figure 4

Exercise 4

In order to eliminate unnecessary bounces of the first finger between the 4th and the 5th string, press the 5th string with the tip of the finger as usual. And press the 4th string with the same finger by leaning it down and pressing the string with its side (the tip of the finger remains on the 5th string).

Figure 5

Exercise 5

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