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Starjammer
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 12/20/00
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Starjammer
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 12/20/00
Posts: 8
01/19/2004 7:01 am
I think the value of practicing cromatics (in my experience) lies in improved coordination between your right and left hands. I've seen incredible improvements in my picking ability from devoting entire practice sessions to cromatic exercises (w/ metronome). I do agree, however, that the cromatics themselves are not very useful in a song/solo, although they can sound pretty cool here and there in a jazzy context.