chords to these positions. Suddenly, the
position shifts become no more challenging than a Ramones song (although I don’t
want to understate the power and majesty
of the Ramones).
To further digest the string jumping,
let’s focus on the pinky and what it has to
do. It’s playing the E note in three octaves.
And it has to jump around in order to do
it. Let’s play Bite 3 and listen to what the
pinky is doing just by itself.
With a little bit of practice … digested!
Now, let’s do the obvious and turn
the lick around. The left-hand finger-
ings are going to be exactly the same as
above, but the picking pattern is differ-
ent. We are ascending this time, so the
low note (A) will come first. Start with
a downstroke on the A and then use an
upstroke on the C. Check out Bite 4 and
all will be revealed. As you could have
probably guessed, it’s time to expand to
three octaves using our familiar fingering
for Bite 5. Please notice that I’ve added
an upstroke on the very last E note. This
syncs right up to our original descending
triad phrase, so we can now attach the two
together for Bite 6.
Bite 5
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