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Today, a quick look at starting alternate picking runs on an upstroke.

Starting on an upstroke can be useful when playing stepwise scalic patterns/runs. This can be modal, pentatonic or major/minor.

Here, is the first little exercise/idea: [Note that this starts on an upstroke and finishes on a downstroke]

We, will now extend this and complete the bar.

As you can see when starting on an upstroke it is easy to connect together fragments of scale and create extended fluid lines.

Here is another example of extending and varying by employing simple scalic movement starting on the up stroke.

Connecting scale fragments is a bit like taking the first half of the bar and imitating it into 2 phrases.

Employing Rests:

In this next example we have rests. These are useful as they give you a split second to get your fretting hand into position.

Open String Even to Odd:

This time we will employ the open string to create an even pattern to an odd pattern to set up the upstroke for the next phrase.

This time we will use the same concept to ascend with a simple piece of pentatonic/scale:

Now we will descend starting on the up-stroke [no open string]:

Repeated Note:

Finally, we will employ a repeated note with some scale and open string distance.

Notice that the repeated note and the open string are on the off beat:

Counting Time=Essentail

One last thing: When doing these and any exercises it is essential to count time. Below is an example:

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