Lessons from Jazz/World to 20 Century Classical Music Harmony Rhythm and Theory
Category: Jazz fusion guitar music theory lessons, guitar technique and improvisation.
How to improvise over altered dominant chords. How to employ chromatic jazz and fusion harmony. Apply twentieth century classical composition techniques to modern jazz music and improv. How to exploit modes of the major. minor and diminished scales. Lesson in alternate picking guitar techniques as used by John Mclaughlin and Al di Meola. How to do metal rock and all styles of alternate picking on the guitar. Plectrum pick technique for electric and acoustic guitarists. alternate guitar style of picking lessons.
In this lesson we pick through some melodic arpeggiation. We do this by employing chordal picking/cross picking.
The picking pattern with the plectrum is,
Down Down Down
Up Up Up
Down Up
CrossPicking/Chordal Picking Arpeggio Guitar Loop
The above example is very useful to get the chordal/cross picking right hand guitar pattern down. It is just a loop that is brilliant to get a really confident 4/4 time in your picking hand.
The whole 4/4 Chordal/Cross picking melodic arpeggio pattern/piece.
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In this riff/line I employ alternate Picking but I start with an upstroke for the first phrase. After that I start the remaining phrases on a down stroke.
HOW TO: ALTERNATE PICKING BASICS FOR NEWBIES, BEGINNERS, STARTER GUITARISTS!
Open string exercise. Pluck “Down up” repetitively alternating strictly with the guitar pick. The plucking comes from the wrist. Also, do this exercise the other way with, “Up Down” alternating with the guitar plectrum. This is the basis of strict alternate picking right hand guitar technique.
With “Odd” groupings of notes notice that every time you pluck the pattern again you will be starting on a different picking stroke than you started with previously. So, “Down up down” will then become “Up down up”.
“Odd” Alternate Picking guitar pattern [1String]
Exercise: “Odd” grouping crossing 2 strings on the guitar.
Odd = Every time you cross the strings you are starting on a different stroke than you started on previously
3 notes per string “Odd” pattern crossing all 6 guitar strings alternate picking starting on a down stroke with the guitar pick. [Ascending and Descending].
Alternate Picking “Odd” grouping across 6 strings
“Even” grouping: Crossing all 6 strings ascending and descending employing strict alternate picking right hand guitar technique.
EVEN= Every time you cross the strings it will always be with the same stroke
