Arpeggio's and Alternate Picking

sessionguitar

In this video, I show a great lick that you can throw around, based on the major scale.

What ideas do you have to improve arpeggios and alternate picking?

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sessionguitar said:

What ideas do you have to improve arpeggios and alternate picking?

Not using an apostrophe to form the plural.

Might I hazard a guess at what you did for a living before becoming a session guitarist?

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bingefeller

For alternate I just learn songs with fast picking lines in them, like Gary Moore's solo on Out In The Fields - 16ths at around 170bpm iirc. 135bpm, with the help of legato, is my limit at the minute.  

For me, there's nothing more mind numbing than running through alternate picked scale patterns - I'd rather learn them in the context of a song.  

sweepy

Jus sit down with any Al DiMeola tab, you'll soon get it

Barney

Iv just been using jazz standards out of the real book to improve my arps ...they do help alternate picking..iv just incorporated it into my practise

stratman3142

The riff to Strikes Twice by Larry Carlton (or Jaguar by Johnny Smith) is a good exercise that combines alternate picking scalar lines with an arpeggio. I use it to practice mixing together alternate picking with sweep picking.