Part two of Technical Development Primer.

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We’re going to look at the next two positions. Your 1st, 2nd and little finger should be playing 8th, 10th, 12th on the B and E strings strict to alternate picking as always.

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Now, if you do find that really uncomfortable there is an alternative finger in flow shapes. I suggest that you spend a bit of time with your fingers one and two and fourth first but the other option you have is one, three and four. That’s quite unusual, but you will see players like Paul Gilbert using that particular set-up but it's not that common.

So, what I would do is to spend some time with one tune to four. Is that’s not working out for you, then your going to need to try one, three and four. Whatever you do, don’t switch between positions. Don’t go up with one, two and four and come down with four, three, one because that would be bad practice and we’ll end up with a poor technique because what’s going to happen is every time you see that shape, all you’re going to play it one way or another so just don’t do it. Find a way that works for you.

The 2nd position which we’re learning today is position four. That’s going to be with your 1st, 3rd, little, 1st, 2nd and little. Okay, so the last two shapes were these.