Do you Know good Exercises to develop a picking that rocks?

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buy the book "Rock Discipline" by John Petrucci. you don't need anything else

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yes but, at the moment i think i'm interested only in exercises for right hand...

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that book has plenty of exercises for the right hand
buy it NOW

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i know many, i only have time to post one at mo soz:

ascend up then descend down a scale at 16ths on one string

like this for e minor (0" = 3 opens)

E-2-0"-3-0"-5-0"-7-0"-8-0"-10-0"-12-0"

etc etc

use a metronome

ill post more later but i gotta bail

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i know many, i only have time to post one at mo soz:

ascend up then descend down a scale at 16ths on one string

like this for e minor (0" = 3 opens)

E-2-0"-3-0"-5-0"-7-0"-8-0"-10-0"-12-0"

etc etc

use a metronome

ill post more later but i gotta bail

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practice songs with tremolo picking, but be sure all notes are clear and equal lenght
do scales (any, from minor to minor, including chromatic scales) in tremollo like:
3333444455556666 etc (on all strings
i have more exercices i'll post latter

uh? where can i find exercise tabs? on this site?

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i kno a few songs that helped me with alternate picking that helped me mayb will have the same infulence on you:

1.crazy train-ozzy
2.cowboys from hell-pantera
3.art of shredding-pantera
4.master of puppets-metallica
5.fade to black-metallica
hope they help

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k, thanks

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Blessed Are the Sick by Morbid Angel is pretty helpful, at least the intro part, especially the very beginning, and then the low PMed notes shortly afterward.

I'm sure that's confusing, but if you listen to the song, then I think you'll know what I'm talking about.

Piper, you play Master of Puppets alternately? Which parts?

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there's no alternate picking in master of puppets.
well, in the solo of course, but in rythm guitar its only downpick (and its painfull to play at full speed, but I like pain:P)

Ive got tons of lessons done on alternate picking for a not yet opened guitar site which hopefully will be up soon, anyway if you guys want i can post them one at a time in this or a totally new thread? The reason Im asking is I dont wanna go and spam the board with loadsa exercises and posts if
a - its no use to any one
b - its not allowed
c - theres loadsa midi files to go with them will attaching them waste space etc.....?

BTW most of them were shown to me and thanks to them I can pretty much pick any Yngwie etc.... with ease.

yeah becker, I think you should post them.
thanx

like the fast verse part after the intro i gueass i was doing it wrong i did it by ear and didnt kno he did it all down picked.....o well

A |-----2-----3------4------3-----2-2-|-----2------3-----|4-----3-----2--2-|
E |-0-1---0-1---0-1---0-1---0-1-----|0-1---0-1---0-1----0-1--0-1------|

(sry i dont really type out tab but i think if u kno the song u get it)

when i gave those songs i forgot to add certain parts becuase there only certain parts of the song that use alternate picking(or just down for that matter lol)

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The way that I got really precise at alternate picking was scales and arpeggios.. alternate pick them with a metronome. you HAVE to use a metronome it changes everything.. they're like 10 bucks.. so don't say you can't afford one. play the scales ascending and descending with no stopping and alternate picking the whole time. make sure and keep your hand in the right position.. don't let it float... If I wasn't deathly afraid of tabbing something i'd tab out A minor or something else. eh shit.. i'll just try it..
-- E F G -- A B C -- D E F -- G A -- B C D -- E F G A = notes you are playing
-- 0 1 3 -- 0 2 3 -- 0 2 3 -- 0 2 -- 0 1 3 -- 0 1 3 4 = Fingering

e ---------------------------------------0-1-3-5----------------------
B -------------------------------0-1-3--------------------------------
G -------------------------0-2----------------------------------------
D -----------------0-2-3----------------------------------------------
A ---------0-2-3------------------------------------------------------
E -0-1-3--------------------------------------------------------------

That is the natural form of A minor.. Play this using the fingering which I posted and play it ascending and descending with alternate picking over and over and over with a metronome. go all the way up to 200bpm. .then go back to 101 and play it with 2 notes per click.. and keep going... but make sure you play the notes clearly and hold them for the duration of the click. I have alot more if anyone wants me to post them.. they're pretty text book though..

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Hey man go to www.guitartricks.com they have some cool shit on there that should help ya, and you have to look around on the site, they have some stuff for metal and punk or whatever.

E---1---3------------------------------------------------------------
A------2---4-----1---3-----------------------------------------------
D--------------------2---4---1---3---------------------------------
G--------------------------------2---4-----1---3--------------------
B----------------------------------------------2---4------1---3-----
e-------------------------------------------------------------2---4--
and so on... (you can also return up ) how's this? :-)

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now, i want to buy a new guitar... but i don't know what model... i want to spend 600 or 1000 euros, i don't know...
(anyway i think that a good exercise for left hand, could be 'picking always down, with the metronome, then, you develop your speed, and you begin also to do always in a string, up, up, up , up etc with the plettre. you begin in low speed to arrive to a fast speed. when you developped these exercises you CAN really begin to do 'UP.down,UP,down ETC. ... what do you think of this opinion???? ) please answer

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for tremelo play lots of deicide..........and for multiple string fingering i shit you not play some nu. you dont gotta like it but its good practice. ive also heard of people wearing ruber bands when they play to strenghten the muscles, and at night to streach them.

What do you mean by stretchinga rubber band is there some specific way to do it?

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i think you put the rubber band around the 4 fingers at the lowest joint. so when you stretch them apart, its harder. also that way, it doesnt affect the sound since the rubber band isnt in the way.

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O ok ill try that,

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i dont know how many people do this but my cousin ties the bands to his finger and the other end to his wrist. then if he has to move his hand hes gotta make a fist pretty hard. seems to work. and what that guy said ^^^^^works really well too

Wait, I dont understand how you do that?

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i dotn get it, how do you stretch your fingers if you have to make a fist?

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Yeah I knwo thats what i didnt get either.

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yeah you like tie them up so it basically gives you the same work out are one of those hand work out things with thepads and spring that you squeeze to get strengh