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Alternate picking is a fundamental skill for anyone playing guitar with a pick. This book is meant to show the guitarist how to navigate through the strings with precision and speed. To be able to that you need a system, a way to repeatedly hit the right string at exactly the right time. The hardest thing about alternate picking is string crossings. This can be made easier using pickslanting. All of the exercises in this book are built around an upward pickslanting and a downstroke pick escape, meaning they switch to another string only after a downstroke. What this means is that the tip of the pick moves diagonally from in between the strings on upstrokes to above the strings on downstrokes. This is a very effective system and players like Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin have been using it successfully for decades. The latter part of the book combines this way of alternate picking with economy picking and sweep picking to open up even more technical and musical possibilities.
Symbols indicating whether a note is to be played with a downstroke, upstroke or hammer-on/pull-off are present in every exercise. All the content in this book is written to be musical, not just mindless finger workouts. The exercises are in the blues and rock style, but the techniques you learn from them applies to any genre. Tonally all of them are composed in some variant of A minor, but since there are no open strings in them they are easy to transpose to any key.
The book is a 41 page PDF in standard notation and tablature.