Posted by Ahsanul Haque | 2010-02-04 00:15:59.052513 Discuss This Shed

Here's a little chromatic exercise to free up your fingers. Included media contain the tab and a MIDI sample. It has a slight Flight of the Bumblebee feel to it when you play it fast enough(at around 200 BPM).

Make sure to take the progression as high up the fretboard as you can and also closer to the neck, to ensure your accuracy and speed are consistent. Start the metronome at 80 BPM and play a couple of times until you get used to it. Then increase the metronome speed by 10 BPM and play again. Repeat the process until you can play accurately at around 200 BPM, but make sure you don't rush it.

Also, these type of chromatic runs tend to put a lot of pressure on your fretting fingers. Make sure to warm up before starting the exercise. If you reach a certain BPM that is too fast for you, stop and go back to a slower BPM. Don't increase speed until you're 100% superawesome at your current speed.

Also, these are the kind of licks that easy to learn, hard to play very accurately, but great to impress a crowd with. :)

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