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By Scott Hesse  For this, the third installment of Intervallic Picking exercises, I want to further the challenge. The first exercise took three successive notes in ever-widening intervals and ascended through an octave. Then, last time, I reversed the exercise and had you descend through the ever-widening intervals. This time you'll combine the ascending and descending intervals into a longer, more challenging exercise. The idea is the same: hone your technique while training your ear to hear all the different interval combinations. What you find in the illustration below are all the various intervals from a minor 2nd up through a major 7th. As you can see, you ascend through the first three intervals of each type then descend the same interval type from an octave above.  Each combination of ascending and descending intervals can become its own exercise. As you know, I'm a big advocate of breaking bigger exercises into smaller ones to get a better handle of them. In fact, that's how I conceived this whole exercise sequence in the first place. Maybe you just want to isolate moving from the m6 sequence to the M6 sequence above. That could be an exercise of itself. Listen closely to how each interval pattern strikes your ear. Whatever sounds interesting to your ear should be your inspiration for further exploration.
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By Scott Hesse  Last tip, I gave you a picking exercise that used ascending intervals in ever-widening fashion. This time around, I will show the same thing using descending intervals. The example below shows you the starting point of C two ledger lines above the staff. As I said in the last Guitar Notes, the fingering I give is how it fits best for my technique. You can use what I show as a starting point, or find a way that fits the way you play. However you decide to do this, make sure you start slow and build your speed up gradually. Also, really pay attention to the way these intervals sound as you play them. On some of the wider-spaced intervals, I like to just stay on them for a while and get comfortable. Everything we do when we practice trains our ears to hear music on a deeper level. So remember that what you hear now is more than what you heard a year ago. What you hear a year from now will be better and deeper than what you hear today.  The last thing I'll say about this is something I've suggested before in these tips. Once you're relatively comfortable with what's given, find a different way to practice this material. Break it into smaller pieces and make an exercise of that. Or put on a different starting point. Whatever you do, make any exercise you get into something of your own.
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