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Here’s a cool harmonic minor and diminished lick. I’ll be uploading the PDF shortly.

Steve Morse is one of my favorite guitarists for many reasons. Some of which are his picking techniques and phrasing. Here are a couple of his lesson videos from Youtube.

Here’s a short picking exercise in 6/8 time using a combination of power chords and major and minor chords.

Download the tab 123009 – Picking Exercise in 6/8

Here’s a scale sequence for students trying to learn how to vary their speed. It uses all modes of the G major scale.
Download the pdf 122909-Scale Sequence.

Here’s a great video with easy to learn, country guitar licks.

I love to receive requests for online lessons, one such request was from a beginner that was unable to take private lessons from me, but wanted to get off on the right foot.

Beginning students that are unable to take lessons from a professional teacher should proceed very carefully. You don’t want to get into a bad habit in regards to posture, hand positions, direction, bad tone, etc.

Here is a first scale and exercise to practice.

You have four left hand fingers that play the guitar, they can be re-arranged 24 different ways. Here is an example.

Scales – A scale is a group of related notes in a fixed order. Every song or tune/melody comes from a scale. The key of G is the most common guitar key, and a great place to start.

I hope you’re practicing material in a variety of time signatures? The time signature at the beginning of a piece tells you how many beats per measure there should be (top number), and which type of note gets one beat (bottom number). Here’s an easy exercise in 7/8 time. As you’re counting the beats, make sure to only say “Sev” for seven or you will be adding a beat with seven being two syllables.

092909 – Eric Peterson – 7_8 Exercise

Here’s a neat voice leading exercise in E minor, use alternate picking and practice it at various speeds.

Voice Leading Exercise in E minor

Here’s one of my favorite scale sequences using the Eb Locrian mode.

A sequence is a series of notes that create a pattern. Often they’re played repititiously as an exercise. Sequences are a great way to memorize a new scale or to utilize your scales in soloing. Here is one of the most common Pentatonic sequences. Make sure to practice it in the other four positions as well and add hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Click to download the sequence ascending and descending in the first two positions. PentatonicSequences-1