Paganini Caprice XVI  

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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.

Pentatonic Triplet Sequence  

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In this exercise, you will play the Pentatonic Minor scale as a sequence of triplets.

Perpetual Practice  

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This exercise examines an excerpt from one of the greatest violin virtuosos as a means to build alternate picking chops.

Tapping Ex. 6  

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In this exercise, you will play an infamous tapped arpeggio part.

Three of a kind  

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This exercise takes a look at scale sequencing as a means to continue the never-ending quest for scale mastery!

Playing With The Devil - Paganini Caprice 16, Part 1  

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In this guitar lesson, we look at the opening measures of Paganini's fiery Caprice 16. Caprice 16 is yet another classical music piece that is truly guaranteed to help you develop mind blowing guitar chops!

Alternate Picking Ex. 5  

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This exercise focuses on playing triplet patterns.

String Skipping Ex. 1  

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This is the first of the string skipping exercises. This is about as basic as they get, and then they get progressively more advanced.

Interval Training  

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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.

Half Diminished 7th Arpeggio  

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In this exercise, you will play a Half Diminished 7th (i.e. Min7b5) arpeggio across all 6 strings.

Dominant 7th Arpeggio  

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In this exercise, you will play a Dominant 7th arpeggio across all 6 strings.

Four-Note-Per-String Scales  

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This is yet another exercise along the endless journey of scale mastery! Get all four fingers ready to burn on this one!

Alternate Picking Ex. 3  

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This alternate picking exercise is designed to get all 4 fretboard fingers in the picture.

Sequencing Triad Arpeggio  

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In this exercise, you play a triad arpeggio sequence that takes you across the entire fretboard.

Scaling Away  

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This exercise gets you thinking differently about scales and modes. Or, it gets you thinking about how much you hate exercises!