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MONDAY

Exercise: #1

Technique: Alternate Picking

Genre: Metal

Music Description: The alternate-picking arpeggios are arranged here along strings 1 and 2 exclusively.

Tip: Although the fret-hand fingerings change to accommodate for major or minor chords, the picking pattern isconsistent throughout.

TUESDAY

Exercise: #2

Technique: String Skipping

Genre: Metal

Music Description: This string-skipping exercise climbs three steps of the C major/A minor scale on the second

string before skipping to the fourth string and repeating the sequence. The pattern is then repeated as it moves

horizontally down the neck.

Tip: Although the figure suggests starting with a downstroke, you may find it advantageous to start with an

upstroke.

WEDNESDAY

Exercise: #3

Technique: String BendingGenre: Blues

Music Description: This bending workout is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan, although theres a higher

concentration of string manipulations in this example.

Tip: A position shift occurs in measure 4. To accommodate this move, use your index finger for the bend on

beat 1, and then quickly shift it to the fifth fret to play the subsequent note

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THURSDAY

Exercise: #4

Technique: Arpeggios

Genre: Rock Music

Description: Starting at the twelfth fret of string 6, this Em arpeggio pattern covers three octaves and all six

strings before reversing course and climbing back down the neck.

Tip: Experiment with the suggested fingerings (one with your middle finger; the other with your ring finger),

and use the one that feels most natural

FRIDAY

Exercise: #5Technique: Sweep Picking

Genre: Metal

Music Description: Sweep-picking is employed here to produce a notey workout featuring sextuplet rhythms

(six notes per beat) and seventh-chord arpeggios diatonic to G major.

Tip: As an alternative to the picking directions notated between staves, try employing a hammer-on/pull-off

combination to connect the three notes on string 2, which will eliminate the first upstroke of each arpeggio

SATURDAY

Exercise: #6

Technique: Legato

Genre: Rock

Music Description: Taking its melodic cue from the legato techinque, this exercise employs octave shapes,

sixteenth notes, and legato slides to ascend the neck, letting the low E string ring along the way.

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Tip: To correctly execute the octave shapes, use the fleshy underside of your fret hands index finger to mute the

fourth string.

SUNDAY

Exercise: #7

Technique: Rhythm

Genre: Funk

Music Description: This funk rhythm pattern takes the main elements from sixteenth-note rhythms, E9 chordand string mutes and adds a half-step chordal slide to beats 1 and 3 of each measure.

Tip: Use the underside of your fret hands middle finger, which is not part of the chord voicing, to mute strings

5 and 6 not for a percussive sound, but rather to prevent unwanted string noise.