How to Play Fast: Multistring Riffs

These multistring exercises use the alternate picking technique as well as showing you how the your fret hand placement can make a difference.

Key:

Figure 1


E-8-5-----------------------------------------------
B-----8-5-----8-5-----------------------------------
G---------7-5-----7-5-----7-5-----------------------
D---------------------7-5-----7-5-----7-5---------7-
A---------------------------------7-5-----7-5-------
E---------------------------------------------8-5---
  D U D U D U D U D U D U D U D U D U D U D U D U D  
                                     
  p i p i r i p i r i r i r i r i r i r i r i p i r

Figure 2


E----12----------12----------12----------12-------b -
B-b ----15-12-b ----15-12-b ----15-12-b ----15-12-15-
G-14----------14----------14----------14-------------
D----------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------
  r  i  p  i  r  i  p  i  r  i  p  i  r  i  p  i  r

Figure 3


  
E-------12-14-15-14-12-------------------------------------------
B-12-14----------------14-12-14-15-14-12-------------------------
G----------------------------------------14-12-14-15-14-12-------
D----------------------------------------------------------14-12-
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
  i  r  i  r  p  r  i  r  i  r  p  r  i  r  i  r  p  r  i  r  i

E-------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------
G-11-12-11-9--------------------------------------------
D------------11-9-11-12-11-9----------------------------
A----------------------------12-10-12-13-12-10----------
E----------------------------------------------12-10-12-
  r  p  r  i r  i r  p  r  i r  i  r  p  r  i  r  i  r

Figure 4


                                                                          b
E----------------------------------------------------------------14-15-17-17-
B-------------------------------------------------------14-15-17-------------
G----------------------------12-14-16----------12-14-16----------------------
D-------------------12-14-16----------12-14-16-------------------------------
A----------12-14-16----------------------------------------------------------
E-12-14-15-------------------------------------------------------------------
  i  r  p  i  r  p  i  r  p  i  r  p  i  r  p  i  r  p  i  m  p  i  m  p  r

Figure 5


E-5-7-8-9-7-5-------------------------------------------------------
B-------------7-5-------5-------------------------------------------
G-----------------7-5-6---8-7-5-6-2-4-5-6-4-2-----------------------
D---------------------------------------------4-2-------2-----------
A-------------------------------------------------4-3-4---6-5-3-4---
E-----------------------------------------------------------------5-
  i r p p m i r i r i m i p r i m i r p p m i r i r m r i p r i m r


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