When you play through the exercise you will be aware of the employment of Pentatonic’s, Major/Minor arpeggios and plain arpeggios. This in turn gives us easy fingering and fluidity in the picking hand and the fretting hand.
This little alternate picking guitar exercise is taken from John Mclaughlin’s acoustic jazz fusion C.D “Belo Herozonte”. Although this is a simple and short exercise it displays the way to open up and extend long fluid alternate picking improvised jazz fusion guitar lines.
“Friday night in San Francisco” Guitar Lesson and exercise and explained. Alternate Picking guitar technique. John Mclaughlin, Al di Meola and Paco de Lucia were the guitar trio that performed and released the amazing acoustic album/cd called “Friday night in San Franscisco. Luckily there is also a book of transcriptions.
