4-finger picking

[The_Pope]

Greetings forum! i was recommended to this site from another forum when i asked if anyone could recommend me to some 4-finger picking exercises. I can play pretty quick with my index and middle fingers but i cant quite pound out the 64th notes like Jaco or Myung, so could someone help me out here?

[Pacman]

I can't give you any excercises, but I can tell you that Jaco played with strictly two fingers.

Practice.

[Byron Santo]

Start these 4 finger patterns on one string. Then, when somewhat developed, start skipping strings. Play each 4 finger pattern per string for starters. Once the fingers are developed then you can start playing using a pattern to play over multiple strings.

1/16 or 1/32 note patterns
i-m-a-c
c-m-a-i

1/16 note triplet patterns
i-m-a-c-m-a
c-a-m-i-m-a

To help develop a&c fingers you can also try these finger patterns

i-a
i-c
m-a
m-c
a-c

Try doing 1/4 or 1/8 notes on one string.

Also check out my free lesson on Truefire.com on resistive practicing. This approach can really speed up you development.

http://www.truefire.com/list.html?st...ry=byron+santo

Hope this Helps,

[jive1]

Do you mean picking with thumb,index,middle,ring or index,middle,ring,pinky?

[Davehenning]

I have been studying with Matt Garrison and he has the 4-finger thing down cold. He also has a book coming out sometime in the fall that completely covers the 4-finger technique.
He showed it to me and I must say, it looks pretty in-depth. Check his site for updates.



His technique seems to generally (but not all the time) involve:

Thumb-1st-2nd-3rd then repeat

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