Lesson 3: Three notes per string


Like I treated in lesson 1, you can play these runs differently,
with continuous "changestroke" or with sweepers, also called economy-picking.
When the run is constructed with three notes per string, you can use the economy-picking. As you can see, an odd number of notes per string allows sweepers, and an even number not. I will show that:

This run has three notes per string, en as you can see,
you can stroke two times down after each other.

Example 3.1:
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E||---------------------------------7-8-10-||
B||--------------------------6-8-10--------||
G||--------------------5-7-9---------------||
D||--------------5-7-9---------------------||
A||--------5-7-8---------------------------||
E||--5-7-8---------------------------------||


I, personally, use "changestroke" at three notes per string,
because that's the way I am accustomed, and the advantage of my style is the better timing.
But playing this run by a sweeper would make it faster.
You can change these ways of playing very good.

Three notes per string has again two basicruns,
which you have to practice very good.

Example 3.2:
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E||--------------------------|--------------------------|
B||--------------------------|--------------------------|
G||--------6-7-9-------6-7-9-|--9-7-6-------9-7-6-------|
D||--6-7-9-------6-7-9-------|--------9-7-6-------9-7-6-|
A||--------------------------|--------------------------|
E||--------------------------|--------------------------|

With this basic-technique you can make lots of runs.
Three notes per string is the most used way of playing in fast runs.
In the next exercises I use different scales,
because these scales have non-stop three notes per string.
The next example has a scale too, and it's from the song Metropolis from Dream Theater,
It sounds terribly fast and impossible
but when you have practiced these basicruns over and over again,
it is possible to play this example by yourself!!


Example 3.3:
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E||------------------------------------------------|
B||------------------------------------------------|
G||------------------------------------------------|
D||----------------------------------------9-11-12-|
A||---------7-9-10---------9-10-12-9-10-12---------|
E||--7-9-10--------9-10-12-------------------------|



---------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------12-14-15-12-14-15-|
----------9-11-12----------11-12-14-11-12-14-------------------|
--9-11-12---------11-12-14-------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|



--12-14-15----------14-15-17-17-15-14-------------------|
-----------14-15-17-------------------17-15-14----------|
-----------------------------------------------16-14-12-|
--------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------|



-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
--16-14-12-------------------------------------------------------|
-----------16-14-12-------------------14-16-17----------16-17-19-|
--------------------15-14-12-14-15-17----------15-17-19----------|



--------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------14-16-18-|
-----------14-16-17----------16-17-19-14-16-17----------|
--14-16-17----------16-17-19----------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------|



-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------14-15-17----------------------------|
-----------16-18-19-12-14-16-------------------------------------|
--16-17-19-------------------------------------17-19-21----------|
--------------------------------------------------------17-19-21-|
--------------------------------------17-19-21-------------------|



-----------------------------------------------19-22-21-|
--------------------------------------19-20-22----------|
--18-19-21----------18-19-21-18-19-21-------------------|
-----------17-19-21-------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------|



--21b-21r-----22b-------||
----------19------------||
------------------------||
------------------------||
------------------------||
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In the previous runs from Metropolis there is a part in which the whole scale is played with three notes per string. This gives a cool sound. Here you see some simular run:


Example 3.4:
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E||--15-14-12----------------------------------------------||
B||-----------15-14-12-------------------------------------||
G||--------------------14-12-11----------------------------||
D||-----------------------------14-12-10-------------------||
A||--------------------------------------14-12-10----------||
E||-----------------------------------------------14-12-10-||

With the next run you can fly all over the whole neck of your guitar!
You have to use the pentatonic scale,
that in everage cases is used for two notes per string,
but now you play three notes per string,
resulting in a broad spreading of your left hand,
and you can play over the whole guitarneck.

Example 3.5:
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