Mark Tremonti’s Legato and Shred Guitar Lesson
So today, I’ll put together some – you know like a little routine that you can do to keep you either warm up or practice technique on legato and picking. What I like to do is take legato at where my left hand out. And then before I start making mistakes, I switch to picking while my left hands’ recuperating. So that’s starts getting wear out and go back and forth as I did. It will go from legato that picking to legato the picking.
First thing I’d like to do is take a three note per string shape prior the easiest one to play for me. And I’m going on the way down and on the way up. I may continue back now. On the way down, you’re pretty much doing legato patterns in seven. You start out with a five, and then you’re picking or doing patterns of seven.
But on the way up, you’re still doing seventh. So I get the hang a bit. One way, you’re just ascending three strings at a time and on the way down just descending on the notes of seven. But today I’m just going to do to three frets of the thing. So working on that technique will get you – once you’ve learned all the three notes per string model shapes it’s easy to just fly through those things when you have – you know, now you’ve learned it. You can fly with that anywhere.
You just got to learn the road map so you can take that technique and fly all over with it. I’m just playing an E natural minor going in and out of the different model shapes, three notes per string.
It took me a while to really float around with it. I used to practice doing simple finger strength building exercises, and then after a while, you don’t find yourself improvising or doing that. So I wanted to make it work so I took – now I just set a metronome and just float along this as long as I can, just floating in and out of the different pattern.
Staying in one key but trying to move around as much as possible, trying not to shy away from being awkward that once that might be weaker to you especially like shapes like that might trick you. I also set and had an exercise before where you would just play one pattern. You know I’m playing them all in a row in the same position. So you make sure that when you’re ascending, you can find all these different shapes so you got to practice.
And so on up the next, we’ll take all those shapes and put them in one spot, and just rift on them. The way I look at legato is when you ascend on two strings, you’ve got that shape. So you got to practice that shape or else you’ll try and shy away from it. You got that shape and that’s pretty coming along easy. That one was difficult for me for a long time.
And then after that, back to that shape that led into it. And then you go up to that, and you’re back to the original as we have this one. If you just take all those shapes or count them individually, then you can float anywhere and not be worried about half in the dodge any areas. So, that’s what I’ve tried to do. But to do that, I had to learn obviously the three-note per string with model shapes all the way up and down the neck.
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