Flatpicking Friday Exercise - Improve your picking in one exercise! 

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Hes literally walking you through it with tabs on the screen and playing slowly ... why would you need to download tabs? You could write them yourself in a couple of minutes if you need them. I dont get people some times. They want everything handed to them on a plate as if having that attitude isnt exactly what will prevent them from being good at the thing they are trying to learn.

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Just over a week into it and almost got it nailed. Just those pull offs on the last two bars need some more work to get the tempo and phrasing en point. Well, when I say “nailed”, I forgot to mention “at half speed”. Tempo at 100 bpm, not too bad. Now I’ve just got to figure out how on Earth you double it!😂. As an aside, thank goodness for the RU-vid half speed playback setting… it’s been a big help.

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These are definitely good exercises for bluegrass, you can do it! :)

@@GuitarLessonsVancouver Will do! I learned the G major scale yesterday:) its something lol.

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It's hard to break habits. The only way to change them is the hard way... play slow and really pay attention to it. Maybe say out loud down up down up etc. It's hard to do the opposite of what you say out loud. Keep it slow. Only gradually get up to speed.

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It is a 12-bar form, but not a blues. Meaning they are simpler chords. Just G C D rather than G7, C7 and D7 which would make it blues.

Good point, I should have put the picking pattern on there. But generally speaking, it's going to be "down up down up" throughout except where there are quarter notes, and except at the end where there are pull offs.

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For certain passages you can do that... but we we should still train our hand to learn alternate picking so it's our default method when we are not familiar with whatever notes are ahead. Economy picking takes forethought. Alternate does not.

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Sorry I don't remember the BPM. You can try a tap tempo metronome to figure it out.

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I don't have time to relisten today but could it be we are counting 8th notes not quarter notes? I was definitely not going by the BPM on the tab. This video is old so I don't remember but I was probably just demonstrating without a metronome.

No problem at all... I understand. I've been going over this 12 bar demo, as low as 70BPM, and STILL having some issues! I'm a long was from getting up 100, let alone 115BPM. THANKS FOR TIS, Blue !!! @@GuitarLessonsVancouver

You can do it! It takes time. Just make sure you're using alternate picking when you practice them, keep it slow until you got it, then gradually get faster.

@@GuitarLessonsVancouver I was talking to my buddy on the phone yesterday and was going through the first two bars and he was like “that sounds good” haha those two bars alone has helped. Going to piece it all together

@@Photognick521 Cool, it's nice to get a compliment from a buddy on your guitar playing too :)

Maybe you pay more attention - he says major pentatonic "with the blue note". And OK he doesn't give a warning of the minor pentatonic run at the end......

@@djavidianmx1832 He says at the beginning of the video that the exercise is based on major pentatonic with the 'blue notes' (in G b flat and f natural) included. This is exactly what he plays and as the most commonly used scale in Bluegrass probably the most appropriate for an exercise, so what's the problem?