This lesson is designed to get your hands working a little better before we start working on our "Alternate Picking Etude". An "Etude" is a technical study....here is part of a definition that I stole from Britannica Online Encyclopedia
in music, originally a
study or technical exercise, later a complete and musically
intelligible composition exploring a particular technical problem in an esthetically satisfying manner.
This is a little snippet of an E minor scale that we are using to sharpen our alternate picking across two or three stings. As I say in the video please be sure to strictly alternate, no matter what note or string you are on!
I am trying a new feature this month and adding a forum to the site. If
it goes well and there is a decent amount of traffic on it I'll
probably upgrade to a nicer forum system.
The first actual use will be for our upcoming "December" solo
contest...I'm still working out the details but here is a little bit of
info:
I thought it would be fun to post a backing track for the solo section
of my song "December" and have you guys post yourselves playing over it! The track is the same length as the solo that is transcribed in this lesson and part of the challenge is coming up with something that gets the point across in just a few measures, just like the solo in a pop song should!
We will vote by Poll on the forum and I'll give out
free copies of my book "Foundations for Guitar" to the three
submissions that get the most votes.
You can either submit a
Youtube video or a sound clip. If you don't have recording software
there are free programs such as "Audacity" that will allow you to
record over the backing track!
