Picking/Fretting Exercise

Here is a fun and challenging exercise for the right and left hands. Start with a major 7th chord shape in the 1st position (would be F#maj7). Play all downstrokes and then descend chromatically (beginning with an upstroke) from the G# on the 4th fret, 1st string.


Keep ascending as in the video until you have spanned a full octave of the pattern.

At this point you can continue to torture yourself (if you like that kind of thing) by fully reversing the pattern like this: