Alternate Picking Guitar Exercises (that will fix your picking technique forever!)

lead lead guitar technique May 13, 2025

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If you're spending any mental energy thinking about which direction to pick while playing, that's a problem.

But how do you make it automatic? Alternate picking, economy picking, when to pick down vs. when to pick up… it feels like there’s a lot to think about.

Whenever we want to truly internalize a skill, a well-designed exercise is the answer.

The picking exercises in this lesson will completely solve all your picking direction issues.

🎼 Want to try these exercises with other scale forms? FREE PDF: Click here to download the most important scale diagrams for guitar.

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