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Alternate Picking with cycle 4ths chords guitar lesson
Today we look at employing alternate picking with chords on the guitar.
The alternate picking group of 4 semiquavers [16ths] notes start with an upstroke. “Up Down Up Down”. This little lick/motif joins the two chords together and creates a compositional movement.
Here is the descending music notation and tab. [Chords and alternate picking]
Here is the ascending music notation and tab.
Descending cycle of 4ths chord sequence [for alternate picking scales with chords].
Ascending cycle of 4ths chord sequence [for alternate picking scales with chords].
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