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		<title>Guitar practice exercises: alternate picking chromatic scale</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody knows the warm-up exercise where you play 4 chromatic notes in sequence and move sequentially through each string without shifting positions up or down the neck:<br />
<img src='http://lorinator.feminoise.com/img/chromatic_warmup.jpg' alt='chromatic warm-up exercise' /><br />
<strong>Chromatic warm-up</strong> <a href="http://lorinator.feminoise.com/downloads/chromatic_warmup.pdf">PDF </a> ::: <a href="http://lorinator.feminoise.com/downloads/chromatic_warmup.gp5">Guitar Pro 5</a></p>
<p>This is fine for developing basic coordination between your left and right hands, but it&#8217;s not exactly <em>musical</em>. </p>
<p>Life is short: if you&#8217;re going to spend time working on technical exercises, it makes more sense to design exercises that at least have some <strong>potential for musical application</strong>. Making an exercise more musical makes it more fun to play as well.</p>
<p>With some slight changes to the warm-up exercise above you can turn it into a true chromatic scale. This gives you both coordination practice AND the benefit of musical applicability:<br />
<img src='http://lorinator.feminoise.com/img/chromatic_exercise1.jpg' alt='chromatic exercise 1' /></p>
<p><strong>Chromatic exercise 1</strong> <a href="http://lorinator.feminoise.com/downloads/chromatic_exercise1.pdf">PDF</a> ::: <a href="http://lorinator.feminoise.com/downloads/chromatic_exercise1.gp5">Guitar Pro 5</a></p>
<p>Make sure that you stick to <strong>strict alternate picking</strong>, even on the slides &#8212; every note should be picked. </p>
<p>I encourage you to experiment with variations on this exercise &#8212; for example, playing it with a triplet feel instead of straight sixteenths. And make sure that NO MATTER WHAT you <strong>play it clean</strong>. If it&#8217;s sloppy, you&#8217;re playing too fast. Pay particular attention to fingers 2 and 3 &#8212; for me those tend to be the troublemakers.</p>
<p>Have fun!</p>
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