Gary Willis Note Separation Exercise

I don’t know if this qualifies as an exercise, but it’s something I heard Lincoln Goines saying at BassImmersionDay2 in October. He was talking about how Gary Willis had shown him a way to practice single string finger picking exercises and scales. The idea is to focus on the picking fingers. Using your normal alternating fingerpicking style, pluck the first note. Then alternate to the next finger as usual, but mute the string before you pluck the next note. You can put in long paces btween notes, like staccato, or see how short you can make the spaces.

It’s basically an exercise on being aware of your picking fingers and creating separations and little spaces between each note. It’s something to keep in mind for that extra bit of note articulation and picking hand control.

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