WHILE STUDYING AT THE UNIVERSITY
‘of Miami | alvways made up exercises to try (0
keep up with all the great gui
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‘one and transcribed i for some of his stunts.
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troy of ples: made it into a clssical-sound:
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playing plain axpeggio up and down the neck
My Personal
Picking
Exercise
BY STEVE MORSE
deen studying. lo of Spanish-style music
with classical guitarist Juan Mereadel. Such
arpoggiating is very difficult: go slowly to get
every note lean, Tknow if ean fatpiek this,
one accurately I'm ready for anything ese in
‘The Roman numerals indicate hand pos
‘ons, Ifitsnot obvious, pick down, up, down
‘up—regardless of how unnatural iemay feel. 3
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