by Will Landrum 
http://www.guitarconsultant.com/ 

Howdy! Today, I want to share one of my favorite exercises. 
Don't worry, just because it's an exercise, doesn't mean it 
will be boring! 

When practiced enough, this exercise will single handedly 
improve multiple areas of your playing AND thinking! 

1. It will teach you fretting accuracy. 

2. It will challenge your alternate picking. 

3. It will stretch your fingers. 
(This kind of stretching permanently improves your reach!) 

4. It will help you visualize important scale patterns. 

5. It will inspire your soloing. 

This run begins with the G Ionian, 3 note per string pattern, 
moves you up the neck in position to descend in the A Dorian 
position, right back to where you began in G Ionian. 

This is like riding a roller coaster without having to stop! 
It makes a perfect "circle" of notes. 

Since there are three notes on each string, the best way to 
play is using triplets or sextuplets if you dare! Start 
off with your metronome set to 60 beats per minute and 
increase the tempo as you see fit. 

When you reach the first string, eighth fret, make sure that 
you stay in time when nailing the next note at the 10th 
fret. This is a great place to practice your accuracy! 

Now, once you are familiar with this run, try recording 
yourself playing a G chord and do this run against it. You 
will hear some great sounds that you may have never played 
before! 

Also, isolate areas of this run and try mixing things up, 
particularly in places where you are stretching to play 
those whole steps. 

OK, enough talk, let's rock... 

Tablature Legend 

G A B etc. are the notes. 
1 2 4 etc. are the fingers you should use for fretting. 
d is downstroke. 
u is upstroke. 

You ascend in the Ionian Major scale pattern...