Content
- Foreword
- Not improving as fast as you want to?
- Pick and fingerings
- About the exercises, and tablature
- CHAPTER 1 Warm-up exercises
- Left hand
- Stretch”vningar
- Right hand13
- CHAPTER 2 Picking exercises
- Muting technique
- One-string technique
- Open strings, song exercise
- Slides
- One-string technique with chord progressions
- Using several strings
- Special exercises
- Combining strings
- Using three strings
- Playing across all six strings
- CHAPTER 3 Note groupings
- Using sixteenth notes as sixteenth triplets
- Grouping in groups of 5, 7 and 9
- CHAPTER 4 Inside/Outside picking
- Inside/Outside song exercise
- CHAPTER 5 Interval exercises
- Thirds and fourths
- Fifths and sixths
- Sevenths and octaves
- Kapitel 6 Using octaves
- Sixteenth notes and sixteenth triplets
- Sixteenth triplets
- Song exercise
- CHAPTER 7 Chromatic ideas
- Chromatic patterns
- Pentatonic and diatonic ideas
- Chromatic chord progressions
- Chromatic song exercise
- CHAPTER 8 Pedal tones or Pivoting
- Basic exercises
- Starting from the root
- Using chord progressions
- Leading with a bass note
- More ways for using this technique
- CHAPTER 9 Arpeggios
- Two string arpeggios
- Three string arpeggios
- Four string arpeggios
- Five string arpeggios
- Six string arpeggios
- CHAPTER 10 String skipping
- Song exercise and arpeggio
- Arpeggio and a Dorian string skipping exercise
- CHAPTER 11 Tapping
- Playing all over the fretboard
- Combining patterns
- Using string skipping
- Mirror tapping
- Double tapping
- CHAPTER 12 Variations on the circle of fifths
- Chord progression and variations
- Pivoting techniques and thirds harmony parts
- Using sextuplets
- Using arpeggios
- CHAPTER 13 Legato
- Using octaves
- CHAPTER 14 Exotic scales
- Iwato and Hindu
- 8 Note Spanish, Hungarian Minor, Oriental
- Enigmatic, Overtone, Algerian
- Exotic scales
- Final words
- Personal thanks and inspirations