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String Skipping

Like the dexterity lesson, these exercises will improve the strength and accuracy of your fingers. They can also be incorporated into solos.

Here are some licks that involve skipping strings between notes. They will improve your accuracy, as well as presenting some ideas that you could incorporate into your solos.

Idea 1

D(sus4) E(sus4) A

Fingering:
3 1 3 2 1 3 1 4 3 1 3 2 1 3 1 4
/---------------------------------------------------------/
/7---------8--7--------10---9---------10---9-----------12-/
/----------------9--7--------------------------11--9------/
/-------7--------------------------9----------------------/
/---5--------------------------7--------------------------/
/---------------------------------------------------------/
Strokes:
u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d

2/3
---------------/
10-------------/
---------------/
11-------------/
---------------/
---------------/

u mid fing+pick

Idea 2

Emajor

T 1 4 T 1 4 T 1 4 T 1 4 T
/-------------------------------------------------/--------/
/12---5ho9---12---5ho9----------------------------/--------/
/-------------------------------------------------/--------/
/--------------------------14---6ho9---14---6ho9--/--------/
/-------------------------------------------------/--------/
/-------------------------------------------------/-12(24)-/
Tapped Harmonic
(quickly tap)

Idea 3

Gmajor
---------3--5--7--s10--8--7-----------/
-----------------------------10--8--7-/
4--5--7-------------------------------/
--------------------------------------/
--------------------------------------/
--------------------------------------/

A7
--------5--7--9--s12--10--9-------------/
------------------------------12--10--8-/
6--7--9---------------------------------/
----------------------------------------/
----------------------------------------/
----------------------------------------/

--------------------------------/-------------------/
--------3--5--7--s10--8--7------/-------------------/
---------------------------9-7-6/-7(19)-------------/
4--5--7-------------------------/-------------------/
--------------------------------/-------------------/
--------------------------------/-------------------/

Harmonic

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