This is our last picking etude, and it is the most difficult. We have been doing a piece of music in each of the most common "subdivisions" of time including eighth notes, triplets and now sixteenth notes. This piece starts off with some pretty "scale wise" passages, where we are mostly just going up or down the scale note by note or with small skips. The second section we are skipping strings, and still needing to keep the alternate picking consistent. DO THIS VERY SLOW UNTIL YOU CAN DO THE WHOLE THING CORRECTLY. Then gradually bring it up to speed. If you rush through learning it you will miss the benefit of the etude, which is to get you consistently picking sixteenth notes regardless of the difficulty of the passage.
This weeks lesson is on triplet picking...just one more of our little etudes to build your skills!
A "Triplet" is where we divide the beat into 3 smaller parts or "subdivisions". Count them like this:
ONE trip let TWO trip let THREE trip let FOUR trip let
The count happens on every metronome click. What is most important is that you are alternate picking all of the way through the exercise, like the other lessons in this series. If you are doing it correctly you will be playing down picks on beats "one" and "three" and up picks on beats "two" and "four".
