From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords
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Picking pattern: Exercise 3
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 1 Picking, Fretting, & Chords
Picking pattern: Exercise 3
- I have one more exercise here, to explore this picking pattern. This is Picking Pattern Exercise Three, I'll play it here at 80 beats a minute, and then we'll talk about it a little bit. (metronome ticks) One, two, three, go. Okay. So, you can see, if you've worked from Exercise One to Exercise Three, that there is a lot more challenge in this. In Exercise Two, we incorporated some string changes and kinda looked at more use of upstrokes, but still not breaking the pattern. Even though we weren't playing every downstroke, or every upstroke, we're still trusting, and you'll notice if you were to, again, print these out and write it down, if you were to write on every downstroke or every downbeat, every number note, a down arrow and then an up for the and's, you'll notice this pattern never breaks. And, so that's what we're trying to build here with these exercises, is build that trust, that muscle memory, that sort of machine-like repetition, the automatic that's at the heart of a…
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