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54th Guitar Snake River Rapids Exercises: Pinky, Ring, Middle, Index in 4s

Note: If experiencing pain, stop playing.

Note2:  The Snake River Rapids exercises are intended to be atonal.

Note3:  When picking, only use motions of the forearm wrist.  Do not use the shoulder, bicep, or tricep muscles for these exercises.

54:1 Pick a string, position your fretting hand at the 12^th fret, and play the following pattern using all down strokes:
15^th fret pinky finger

14^th fret ring finger

13^th fret middle finger

12^th fret index finger

54:2 That string.  Position your hand at the 11^th fret, play the following pattern using all down strokes:

14^th fret pinky finger

13^th fret ring finger

12^th fret middle finger

11^th fret index finger

54:3 That string starting at 10^th fret, play the following pattern using all down strokes:

13^th fret pinky finger

12^th fret ring finger

11^th fret middle finger

10^th fret index finger

54:4 That string at starting at the 9^th fret, play the following pattern using all down strokes:

12^th fret pinky finger

11^th fret ring finger

10^th fret middle finger

9^th fret index finger

54:5 Work this pattern down to the 1^st fret.  Then, work it back up, a half step higher each time.

54:6 Repeat exercises such that each string is used.  For example, first do this exercise on string 6, and then after working up and down the fret board, try string 2.

54:7 Repeat exercises using alternating strokes (up and down), and/or palm muting.

54:11 Patterns may be played at higher frets than the ones listed.

54:12 Play this pattern start at frets above 12, working your way to the smaller frets.

54:13 Work your way back to the 12^th fret using the same pattern.  Possibly consider moving the pattern down the fret in larger steps, such as whole steps.

11th Hopping Wires: Root, flat 3, flat 5, 2, and in 4s

11:1 Except for the 4^th and 5^th strings this pattern of intervals is true at any place on the guitar.

11:2

The root is always played with the index finger in this exercise.

The 2^nd note, a flat 3 interval, is always played with the pinky finger in this exercise.  Flat 3 is three half steps up from the root on the same string.  A half step is 1 fret higher.

The 3^rd note is a flat 5 interval in comparison to the root note, and it is reached by skipping to the next highest string, but one frets higher than the root note.  It is to be played with the middle finger.  For instance, on the 1^st string, if the 12^th fret is played, then the flat 5 is played on the 2^nd string at the 13^th fret, where the 1^st string is the fattest string.

The 4^th note of the repeatable pattern is a 2 interval.  It is played with the ring finger on the same string as the root, but a whole step up from the root.

11:3  Thus, it is such that a pattern is formed.  This pattern if played at the 12^th fret on string 1 and 2, the two fattest strings, is: (12^th fret, index, 1^st string), (15^th fret, pinky, 1^st string), (13^th fret, middle, 2^nd string), and (14^th fret, ring, 1^st string)

11:4  The aim is through repeating exercises like this one many times, speed, fluidity and outright finesse will be developed.

11:5  Whether you are positioned at the 12^th fret, the 7^th fret, the 5^th fret, or the 1^st fret, or any other fret for that matter; or if you use the 1^st and 2^nd string, the 2^nd and 3^rd string, 3^rd and 4^th string, or the 5^th and 6^th string, the pattern remains the same.  The index finger will play the lowest note with respect to tonality, and that will be the root note.  The root note is the same as the key that you are in.

Note:  When making the lesson name, the numbering system used reflects each note of the system with respect to the major scale, where “1,” is the root note of the Ionian Major scale, and all Ionian notes are considered to be major, instead of flat or sharp.  Thus, a lesson may be of a different scalar mode, but that will be disregarded in favor of Ionian labeling, such that though the Ionian major scale has no minor 3^rd, or “no flat 3,” if there a flat 3 in the lesson, this flat 3 will be labeled as such where major 3 is just simply a 3 interval.  For example in the key of G, the note B is the major third.  In G, if a B flat is used, then B flat is flat 3.