#alternate picking

How to Play Fast & Difficult Jazz Guitar Phrases

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 Playing fast jazz guitar is difficult, and with bebop phrases this is even more difficult because the music contains very complicated lines and melodies in Jazz.

You probably feel that you get confronted with your technical limitations very often. I think we all do, which of course is also only a testament to the fact that we always try to take things to the limit of our abilities and expand that limit. There are actually many ways to play fast phrases. I think this is sometimes a bit overlooked, and if you are aware of the options it can really solve a lot of problems in your playing.

For some reason it wasn’t saved. And I don’t recall what exercises I did, but it was overall 1 hour of guitar alternate picking, very slowly and I noticed several mistakes. All that are fixed through time, like miscalculating the distance between strings, and grabbing the pick and feeling uncomfortable with it.

An exercise I remember doing being pretty effective was playing modal octaves in each modes.

Usually starting inside-out means all the mechanisms by thirds are played like that, so a good exercise is to practice starting inside-out, and then outside in.

Picking Techniques beyond Alternate Picking

Alternate picking is the core of what I use when I play jazz guitar. But there are other strategies that I combine alternate picking with to make it easier to play faster phrases. This video is on how I use sweeping and economy picking to play certain arpeggios and jazz phrases.

In the end a good technique is going to be a combination of several techniques and should be a tool set that you rely on to help you get the phrasing that you like. In the end we have to let the music rule the technique and not the other way around.

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