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 similar to the previous one. This time we are complicating matters by throwing in the alternating E and D notes on the E and B string, respectively (i.e. notes 6 and 7 in the exercise), which disrupt the legato motion. This is a very common type of riff when it comes to legato.

We have pretty much the same fretboard layout as we had in exercise 2.

Make sure that you make smooth transitions between the picked notes and the hammer-ons and pull-offs. That's all I have to say about this one. Get to it!