Introduction to Alternate picking- with Exercices to improve your speed (Guitar beginners lesson)

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Hi guys, in this video I'm going to show you some excercises to practice your alternate picking, there are 100s of these! 😅but just had to pick out a few...Remember to take it slow at first until you build up speed, use a metronome and just have fun! 🤗
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Love your presentation and the simplicity in which you convey the techniques to the listener. I’ve been playing for many years and this video has made me look at a different way to increase my speed!!!! Thank you so much... KEEP JAMMIN’ my sista’👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎶🎸

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I'm glad that you are using the pinky with your excersize. Myself like a lot of guitarists have avoided using the pinky. Hopefully these excersizes will get me to use my pinky more. Thanks.

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I am glad that the lesson about deriving the thirds and applying it in intro,outro,adding colors to music is already in my blood. Thank you Helen

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Great advice Helen. I would say that 10min of alt picking practice per day, every day, will yield amazing results for most guitarists after a year or so. One thing that you mentioned - but worth saying again - is to relax the picking hand/wrist/arm/shoulder as much as possible while doing these exercises. It is so easy to tense up (esp if sitting), to hold one's breath, to clinch teeth and to have a lop-sided "up-shoulder" thing happening - sometimes play in front of the mirror and check for this last one! Thank God for the metronome too, gotta play in time ...

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Thank you beautiful, this is helpful with my nearly seven years of guitar, including what you said about the elbow on the " picking "arm. Unfortuately , I haven't used the metronome,So I need that to finally improve my speed. I'm glad you were suggested.And thanks for the new finger excercises

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A question in my mind is, on an average practice of say, one hour a day, how often should the strings be changed?

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Very good exercises. I am a saxophonist who plays some guitar . I am okay with knowing the fret board but have been looking for fun ways to increase my picking speed. I will get to work on these exercises that you show here. Thank you!

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