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- What's going on guys?
Welcome to the technique of the week.
My name's Gina, and I'm happy you joined us today.
Today, I thought we could just check out some six note
per string patterns, like some little runs and stuff to mess
around with, like throw into your solos or whatever.
In the last video we did just to have a quick recap,
we looked at like a scale sequence.
We took just a G major scale,
and flipped it into this other voicing where
we're doing three notes on each string.
So let's just like run through that real quick
just to refresh our memory here.
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That stuff's real easy.
It's real good to know.
It's just how I like to play through major scales.
So I have these little repeated patterns
on each string, so I'm just going three five seven,
three five seven, four five seven, four five seven,
five seven eight, five seven eight.
Yeah, for this one, I thought
why don't we take that same kind of shape,
and we'll just go through a six note per string pattern?
So we're going to do three notes on each string,
and just repeat them like one two three,
one two three, one two three, one two three.
So in the intro of this video,
I was just doing a little solo kind of thing.
And I threw in one of these guys:
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I'm just going 11, 12, 15, 11, 12 15
on all six strings, just 11, 12, 15, all the way across.
So this might be a weird, awkward stretch, and
if it is, let's just like find a modification for it.
Like, it really doesn't matter.
It doesn't have to be these three notes specifically.
It can be whatever kind of works for you.
So, the reason I like this,
this is something that like, you know
maybe like Van Halen or Dimebag might throw this kind
of thing into one of their solos
cause you have these kind of chromatic notes here
at the beginning so you have some notes that are
outside of the actual scale,
and that gives you like a real wild sound
which I think is really cool.
And then you can do some kinda
crazy hammer ons and stuff onto the next strings.
Like, you can do this kind of stuff.
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I just think that stuff sounds cool and kind of weird.
So let's do that and kind of just move
through all six strings.
Here we go.
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The picking pattern, which is the most important thing
to check out is just a down, up, down, up, down, up
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So what ends up happening is I'm ending the pattern
on one of my strings on an upstroke, like an up pick.
And so when I go to the next string, I'm starting on a down
and that's going to give us like a really good attack.
It's going to have a real aggressive sound when
you're picking through that,
but again, if this is like a weird stretch,
we can just take like kind of a minor shape
so we can go like 12, 14, 15, and just like, try that
through all six strings, same picking pattern though.
It's just going to be down, up, down, up, down, up.
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Down, up, down, up, down, up. Yeah.
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So that works too.
You could do just like a chromatic thing.
You can go 12, 13, 14.
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That could be cool.
So it's really, it's just a good alternate picking exercise.
It's just cool to get your fingers moving
It's really fun,
but don't feel like, Oh I can't do this like weird stretch.
You know just do whatever works for you
or whatever you think sounds cool.
Cause this should just be a tool
for you to have something new to mess with
and something to give you some more like expression
into your own solos.
So something else that you can do too,
just as like a warmup, take that major scale voicing
that we looked at and just go through it
with the same picking pattern, and then move it up,
do the major scale voicing, you know,
a fret up, same picking pattern, move it up again.
Like you could do something like this.
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You can take the same shape,
and omit the picking part of it and just like do hammer ons.
That would be cool too.
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So there, I'm just like picking it twice.
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So hope you guys have some fun with that.
Let me know what you think.
Yeah. All right.
Keep shredding, keep being awesome.
I think you already sound awesome.
So keep, keep doing that.
All right, I'll see you guys.