PLAYING TIPS

For this opening Lydian riff, keep your picking hand moving consistently down and up throughout, to ensure even timing and to help you lock in with the drums. This is important when playing through the syncopated bars such as 2 and 3, where some of the notes land on the upbeats. Keep your picking hand locked into the framework by using upstrokes for the up beats and downstrokes for the downbeats. Hold your pick at a slight angle so that the edges cut into the string, rather than the flat surface; this will feel smoother when changing from string to string and improve the attack of your tone.