100 Alternate Picking Exercises for Guitar (Andreas Brink)

Alternate picking is a fundamental skill for anyone playing guitar with a pick. This book is meant to show the guitarist how to navigate through the strings with precision and speed . All of the exercises are built around a downstroke pick escape, meaning they switch to another string only after a downstroke. Symbols indicating whether a note is to be played with a downstroke, upstroke or hammer on/pull off are present in every exercise. Tonally all of the exercises are composed in some variant of A minor, but since there are no open strings in them they are easy to transpose to any key. Many of the exercises move beyond the 12th fret so if you play classical or acoustic guitar a model with cutaway is recommended. The book is a 40 page PDF in standard notation and tablature.