C Ionian Lick & How To Use It
By
Randall Padilla
Ex. 3:
This is a C Ionian scale run, that ascends through the scale at a very high rate of speed (21 notes per second) with each note being individually picked. The trick to facilitating this cleanly, accurately, and at tempo, is to, One: Believe that you can do it; and Two: Use economy picking in the ascending portion of the run. The lick encompasses a total of 51 individual notes in roughly 2.42 seconds. This level of speed is easily grasped by doing this: “Practice it slowly and accurately, repeat.” I cover speed drills similar to this in my instructitonal DVD [Randall Padilla: Tao of Shred] and the real key to grasping techniques such as this, is to consistently with discipline, practice them “slowly/precisely; repeat.”
As always, divide this lick into segments and learn each proficiently and successively, adding on a new section only after the previous is attained. Have fun and enjoy!
-Randall Padilla
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