Fast Economy Picked Pentatonics Guitar Lesson – Lick Of The Week

In Advanced Guitar Lessons, lick of the week home | on February, 07, 2011 | by Carl Brown | 8 Comments

This lesson is a continuation of our “Lick Of The Week” series at GuitarLessons365.com . Within this lesson you will learn some cool ways to combine economy picking with pentatonics to create fast and smooth guitar parts in the style of Eric Johnson and Joe Bonamassa.

They don’t necessarily finger their pentatonic runs like this all the time, but it is a nice way to obtain the same fast pentatonic sound they achieve.

After breaking down and learning this lick completely, try and come up with your own in this style. It can help create a very fluid pentatonic scale technique over time.

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Ken Richards

02.07.11

Thanks for another excellent lesson Carl. This is a great way to extend a pentatonic line.

zegrodzki

02.07.11

too much !!!

diana verhaegen

02.07.11

Verry cool !!

yulan Collado

02.07.11

Loving to visit ur site man

kennedy

02.07.11

sir carl can u help me i have a big big promlem…. this is my problem…. when i use 1 2 4 in scale …. my 3 finger is joining if i play fast help me plz tnx a lot bro God bless

Carl Brown

02.07.11

Hey Kennedy, you seem to have the same problem that a lot of other payer have. The first thing you should try to do is keep the 3rd finger in line with the other 3 fingers when doing scale exercises. Doing short scale fragment exercises allow you to concentrate on one specific technique issue without having to fly through complete scales all the time. The idea is to be able to focus on one small thing.

If you focus on keeping your 3rd finger under control it can be trained to stay away from the string by hovering just a little bit over it when the 4th finger plays. The problem is that there isn’t much independence between the 3rd and 4th fingers so they always seem to want to move together. But with some practice you can train them to be more independent.

Thanks! Car..

Ian

02.07.11

Do you recommend economy picking or alternate picking?

I’m confused because I’ve mostly mastered alternate picking and now I’m working on sweep picking arpeggios, now sometimes when I’m playing leads I mix them up and then mess up because I’m not “on beat” with alternate picking. I used to be able to play the solo from La Grande by ZZ Top with alternate picking, but for some reason now I can’t play it (even though my alternate picking skill has gone up since I worked on it).

Some people say it’s best to learn both, because they are both useful for different situations and also have a slightly different sound. However, my private guitar teacher said I should use only alternate picking.

How do you recommend I go about incorporating both sweep picking and alternate picking into my playing, without getting confused as to which to use and when? Are there any good exercises you did to get good at using both simultaneously?

Carl Brown

02.07.11

Hey Ian, you should definitely master both alternate and economy picking. There are some things that sound great alternate picked but others that are absolutely impossible to do without using economy picking.

I am just finishing up the “Alternate Picking Mastery For Guitar” course for the site. You can find that in the Premium lessons section. By mid week I will begin some new courses and one of the will be on mastering economy picking because I do feel that it is an extremely valuable technique to have. Hope you enjoy the courses!!

I would suggest mastering both individually then write licks or phrases that incorporate both techniques. Just start with smaller phrases eventually working your way up to longer phrases. You will come to the point that virtually anything you come across you can pick fluently since you will be well acquainted with both techniques. Hope you enjoy the courses!

Cheers! Carl..

Fast Economy Picked Pentatonics Guitar Lesson – Lick Of The Week

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