If you have heard players like Joe Satriani or Alan Holdsworth, then you have witnessed truly breathtaking legato technique (better known as hammer-os and pull-offs). Having good legato technique will help balance out your picking technique. When you want that aggressive, in-your-face sound, then stick to your picking technique, but if you want to play smooth, and fluidly, then legato technique is what you want.

This exercise is a little more challenging than the previous one. This time we are moving across 3 strings. This one will help build more endurance in your fretboard hand.

Here we see the layout of the notes in this exercise. No crazy stretching or anything here!

Just like with the previous exercise, play this one over and over til you get to the point where you just can't move your fingers anymore! And also, try playing this one with just the left hand. Don't pick a single note. To do this cleanly, take your pick hand, reach over your fretboard hand, and encircle your fingers around the strings (some where between first and 10th fret), so that you mute them. Then just let your fretboard fingers go to work. You can play amazingly fluid sounding legato lines this way.