Here is a brief but feisty workout focussed on switching techniques and patterns while maintaining a steady stream of semitones.
We tend to practise the underlying shapes of scales and arpeggios independently but within musical contexts, its more common to find the the distinctions more blurred.
The chord is G7. The arpeggio is G7. The Scale is G Mixolydian.
The arpeggio and scale have a different overall positioning with the arpeggio starting with the 1st finger on the root, but the scale uses the 2nd finger.
The fulcrum is on the 1E string where they both need the 1st. That’s where you need to pivot from sweeping and hammering up the arpeggio into straight alternate picking back down the scale.
Here are the frets:
Start by learning the shapes and techniques carefully.
The arpeggio needs your hand to be at full stretch for the first hammer.
Speed up gradually while concentrating on delivering four notes per beat throughout.
The video captures the essence of the idea and a few of the more successful attempts, but as with all the exercises, I will return to them for a few minutes each day until they are not so inconsistent and also until the next one appears.
For more like this see TECHNIQUE 90, 108, 109, 111, 126 and 146.
