Could you share an economy picking melodic pattern?

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#1

I’ve taken to economy picking somewhat well, but I’d like to see about adopting some patterns I am not familiar with. Here is a pattern I came up with the other day:

Stave 1:

E|-------------------------------------------------------------------5-7-5-7-8-
B|-----------------------------------------------------5-7-5-7-8-7-8-----------
G|---------------------------------------4-5-4-5-7-5-7-------------------------
D|-------------------------4-5-4-5-7-5-7---------------------------------------
A|-----------3-5-3-5-7-5-7-----------------------------------------------------
E|-3-5-7-5-7-------------------------------------------------------------------

You can create your own if you have a different one, all I ask is that it can be played with economy picking. This site has a free tab creator you can copy and paste from:

https://www.guitartabcreator.com/

thanks in advance

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#2

I’ve borrowed this 4-notes-per-string picking pattern from Marshall Harrison interview. Here are some variations of it I came up with. They should be moved up and down the neck. (Sorry, no tablature – I couldn’t figure out how to notate picking direction.)

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#3

Here’s a set of exercises I give students for practicing accents and control within economy picking

The whole point here is the accents as people typically have a hard time accenting within economy.

So observe the accents closely and use strict economy:

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#4

If someone could put this into tab I would appreciate it.

thanks

#5

---------5-7-8-7-5-8-7-5------------- :
-5-7-8----------------------8-7-5----- :
D U D /D U D U D U /U D U (repeat)

Or 5-6-8 (or 5-6-8/5-7-8, or 5-6-7/5-6-7, etc.)

Works out economy ascending and descending – I was trying to get economy movement into a “chunkable” exercise.

That’s 14 notes for an 8th/16th feel.

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Here’s 12 notes for a triplet feel:

---------5-7-8-7-5-8-7-5-------- :
-5-7-8----------------------8----- :
D U D /D U D U D U /U (repeat)

If anyone wants to post some slo-mo of this, I’d really like to see it.

#6

Re: AGTG

Tab for notated figure. This is D and G strings only (string indications as written below staff in the notated version). Hope this helps!

(G)–4542--------5754---------12-14-12-11-----------------11-12-11-9---------------
(D)---------4542---------5754------------------14-12-10-9-----------------12-10-9-7-

(G)----------4579----------579-11
(D)–5457---------7579------------

#7

Claus has some good stuff…I recommend searching his free videos.

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#8

Basically you can create whatever pattern you want keeping in mind simple rule:
If you want to move in one direction (ascending or descending) you use odd number of notes per string. If you want to change direction - use even number of notes.
Example:
----------------5-7-----------------
---------5-7-8------8-7-5-----------
–5-7-8--------------------8-7-5-4-7-

or ultraminimalistic:
-----7-9------7-9-
–7-9-----7-9----- …