Picking Strategy for Quarter Notes and Eighth Notes Nate takes you through 3 picking exercises, pick strokes, and drills using rest stroke, free stroke, and upstroke playing quarter notes and eighth notes. Picking Exercise #2 Tabs

CLICK HERE for Tabs Nate shows you a variation on a great John Petrucci warm up exercise from the book Rock Discipline. This exercise focuses on string skipping, alternate picking, stretch, finger independence, and finger dexterity control. If you only have a few minutes to warm up before playing guitar, this is a great choice … Continue reading “Drill #46 – John Petrucci Warm Up Exercise”

Nate shows you how to set up bar chords, as well as play them clearly and eliminate muted strings.