Foreword ......... 4
Not improving as fast as you want to? ......... 5
Pick and fingerings ......... 6
About the exercises, and tablature ......... 7
CHAPTER 1. Warm-up exercises ......... 8
Left hand ......... 9
Stretchövningar ......... 11
Right hand ......... 13
CHAPTER 2. Picking exercises ......... 16
Muting technique ......... 17
One-string technique ......... 19
Open strings ......... 20
Open strings, song exercise ......... 21
Slides ......... 22
One-string technique with chord progressions ......... 24
Using several strings ......... 28
Special exercises ......... 29
Combining strings ......... 30
Using three strings ......... 31
Playing across all six strings ......... 32
CHAPTER 3. Note groupings ......... 35
Using sixteenth notes as sixteenth triplets ......... 36
Grouping in groups of 5, 7 and 9 ......... 37
CHAPTER 4. Inside/Outside picking ......... 38
Inside/Outside song exercise ......... 39
CHAPTER 5. Interval exercises ......... 40
Thirds and fourths ......... 41
Fifths and sixths ......... 42
Sevenths and octaves ......... 43
Kapitel 6. Using octaves ......... 44
Sixteenth notes and sixteenth triplets ......... 45
Sixteenth triplets ......... 46
Song exercise ......... 47
CHAPTER 7. Chromatic ideas ......... 48
Chromatic patterns ......... 49
Pentatonic and diatonic ideas ......... 50
Chromatic chord progressions ......... 51
Chromatic song exercise ......... 52
CHAPTER 8. Pedal tones or Pivoting ......... 53
Basic exercises ......... 53
Starting from the root ......... 54
Using chord progressions ......... 55
Leading with a bass note ......... 56
More ways for using this technique ......... 57
CHAPTER 9. Arpeggios ......... 58
Two string arpeggios ......... 58
Three string arpeggios ......... 62
Four string arpeggios ......... 64
Five string arpeggios ......... 65
Six string arpeggios ......... 66
CHAPTER 10. String skipping ......... 67
Basic exercises ......... 67
Song exercise and arpeggio ......... 68
Arpeggio and a Dorian string skipping exercise ......... 68
CHAPTER 11. Tapping ......... 70
Basic exercises ......... 70
Playing all over the fretboard ......... 71
Combining patterns ......... 72
Using string skipping ......... 73
Mirror tapping ......... 74
Double tapping ......... 75
CHAPTER 12. Variations on the circle of fifths ......... 76
Chord progression and variations ......... 76
Pivoting techniques and thirds harmony parts ......... 77
Using sextuplets ......... 78
Using arpeggios ......... 79
CHAPTER 13. Legato ......... 80
Basic exercises ......... 80
Using octaves ......... 81
CHAPTER 14. Exotic scales ......... 82
Iwato and Hindu ......... 82
8 Note Spanish, Hungarian Minor, Oriental ......... 83
Enigmatic, Overtone, Algerian ......... 84
Exotic scales
Final words ......... 85
Personal thanks and inspirations ......... 86
