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This exercise serves as a tribute to one of the most talented guitarists to ever walk the earth - Jason Becker. We go over a famous lick from his song Altitudes to continue our studies into creative use of arpeggios and intervals.
The month's guitar lesson shows you some basic chords that have a characteristic Flamenco guitar sound. These chords along with the Harmonic Minor scale allow for unlimited creativity with your guitar playing!
If you are familiar with sweep picking, then forget everything you've learned about playing arpeggios with sweeps. This exercise has you alternate picking an arpeggio sequence, and will do wonders for your alternate picking chops.
This month's free online guitar lesson is an excerpt from Paganini's Caprice XVI. This guitar lesson will help with coordination as there is a tremendous amount of position shifting.
This month's free guitar lesson examines the use of intervals to add variety to scales. This guitar lesson also has the benefit of improving coordination as there is a great deal of finger position shifting and alternate picked notes on adjacent guitar strings.
In this month's online guitar lesson, we return to a concept that I demonstrated several months ago - alternate picking arpeggios. This guitar exercise will surely take your alternate picking skills to new heights!
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