How to Play Single String Scalar Lick

[Demonstration] Let me show you a single string scaler idea. If we look at this—the tuner I was just playing is an F#m. We’re just A major. Starting on the F# for the minor, we can go up one string. [Demonstration] 2nd fret. [Demonstration] 4th, 5th— [Demonstration] 7th, 9th [Demonstration] 10th, 12th. [Demonstration] 14th, 16th. [Demonstration] 17th, 19th, 21th. [Demonstration] I’ll tab for this on my site. So what I have done there is triple idea— [Demonstration] And just do it twice. [Demonstration] And then you go up to the next set of three notes. [Demonstration] So simple idea. The nice thing when you do a lick like this on one string is you can get a lot of speed, you don’t have to worry about trying to cross strings and pick on multiple strings, adjacent strings. [Demonstration] So mostly everything in I teach is using metronome. It starts slow and build up speed and rotated the wrist. You know, you don’t want be moving your arm up and down and have a tense arm when you—so keep it relaxed. [Demonstration] Keep it relaxed and if you can minimize the motif height that your fingers go off the neck. [Demonstration] You can really this to an extreme if you want. [Demonstration] Now what I did was the lick in the tune. I didn’t just go straight up the neck. I went like this— [Demonstration] And back down again. So you could do—you could go— [Demonstration] And then you could skip the next one— [Demonstration] Something like that. So you could a lot of different things with this idea. So you got your basic notes on the one string. You could do this on different strings as well. I just chose to do that on the highest E string. All right so give that a shot.