Speed Up Your Soloing. Part IV - Speed-Building Runs

In the previous lesson, I showed you some quite easy speedy two-string licks. Now it's time for going a step higher and play some runs across the fretboard.

The first one is an A-harmonic minor run that goes across the strings E, A and D.

E---------------------------------I-------------------------------I
B---------------------------------I-------------------------------I
G---------------------------------I-------------------------------I
D---------------------------------I----6-----6-7---6-7-9-6-7------I
A-------------5-----5-7---5-7-8-5-I-7-8---7-8-----8---------------I
E-5-7-8-5-7-8---7-8-----8---------I-------------------------------I

Important: Use alternate picking.

The run starts in fifth postion, but when you reach the D string you change to sixth position. The notes (except the last note) are all sixteenth notes.

It may be a bit difficult to play this cleanly with alternate picking, but that's the point: in my opinion these runs work very well as synchronisation excercises. It takes a bit longer to speed them up, but they improve the coorporation of your hands.

Here's another great excercise. In a pentatonic run across all six strings, played in eigth triplets. Again, use alternate picking.

E-------------------------I------------------------I-----5--5-8-5----I
B-------------------------I----------------5---5-8-I-5-8---8---------I
G-------------------------I----5---5-7-5-7---7-----I-----------------I
D-----------------5---5-7-I-5-7--7-----------------I-----------------I
A-----5---5-7-5-7---7-----I------------------------I-----------------I
E-5-8---8-----------------I------------------------I-----------------I

The next one is a diminished arpeggio that I got out of Yngwie J. Malmsteen's "Arpeggios from hell". It changes position a lot, therefore I've written the right position under the tab. It's also palyed in eighth triplets, except the last note. Again, use alternate picking.

E-15-12-------------------------------I----------------------------------I
B-------14----14----------------------I----------------------------------I
G--------  15----15-12-15-12----12----I----------------------------------I
D----------------------------14----14-I-11-14-11----11-------------------I
A-------------------------------------I----------13----13-10-13-10-------I
E-------------------------------------I----------------------------12----I
  XII.                                  XI.               X.

That's it. I hope all four lessons of "Speed Up Your Soloing" were helpful. If there are any questions, just send me a message.

Goodbye.

Comments

[professorlamp]

Nothing special, but helpful i suppose

[travs2448]

helpful riffs.

[duffman251]

good stuff

[70'smetalman]

well it didn't make me any worse so i guess it's helpful??

[BodaciousBob]

You really should have expanded this more. It's really good but far too short. Only scores a 6 in my book.

[TW909]

A little short?

[nazrak]

helpful stuff

[BillR87]

Not bad scale sequences are great for speed building keep it up!

[hoodaneez]

lal seriously? hmmmm uba huba aaaaahhh just wanted to leave a comment so i decided to act like a retard for 300000 seconds i dont know whow mauch that is in minutes but WTH i dont care blah lol loook at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3-aBY4nJE&feature=related lol its just a slideshow with mab playing ROFL go mab go WTF am i doing??

[guitar_god_1993]

thanks for the lesson a little short, byt very helpful to me for building speed

[Akamaruana]

its pretty good

[Lotsagrapes]

Cool story bro.

[ibanezrgr420ex]

good lesson

[stringsquealer]

pretty good

hoodaneez wrote:

lal seriously? hmmmm uba huba aaaaahhh just wanted to leave a comment so i decided to act like a retard for 300000 seconds i dont know whow mauch that is in minutes but WTH i dont care blah lol loook at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD3-aBY4nJE&feature=related lol its just a slideshow with mab playing ROFL go mab go WTF am i doing??

wth was that? ^^

[Morbid_Angel_93]

Thanks. I loaded these tabs on GP, so I could hear it. I find that helps. So far I'm playin' this slow, because I've only been playin' a year or so, but I'm gonna keep at this to speed me up.

[BombaRuLz]

Very good lesson It helped a lot...

[ZzakK]

Nice. This really does help, really god tongue-twisters for my fingers (not my tongue). I have small hands s its a little fiddly on the lower strings but apart from that these really help! thanks (: