Alternate Picking with cycle 4ths chords guitar lesson

Posted on May 24, 2020May 24, 2020 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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Today we look at employing alternate picking with chords on the guitar.

https://youtu.be/vi5fDfI-k8A

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.

alternate picking guitar chords scale 4ths cycle

Here is the descending music notation and tab. [Chords and alternate picking]

alternate picking guitar chords scale descending

Here is the ascending music notation and tab.

ascending alternate picking guitar chords scale

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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Alternate Picking Guitar Acoustic Fusion

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Modern Music Theory and Application

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.

https://youtu.be/v8a0OSXA8_o

You can either employ orthodox fingering or the fingering that I use.

John Mclaughlin Alternate Picking “Belo Herozonte’ Guitar lick/Exercise:

alternate picking jazz fusion john mclaughlin guitar lesson

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