Guitar Technique - Alternate Picking and Motiv Development with J. S. Bach Prelude. (incl. tabs and backing tracks)

Hi guitar maniacs, today I want to share with you some of my guitar technique exercises procedure.  
Let's be honest - technique building exercises like picking, scales, arpeggios - are quite boring and we're tending to speed them up which is highly undesired habit in technique developing process.
To make our practice much more exiting experience why shall we not use THE BEST MUSIC EVER WRITTEN as our daily practice material:

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For me the "best music ever written" comes from that old German Grandpa - J.S. Bach.  And if you haven't dig into his cathedra-like opus yet, then take a shortcut and just check the Well Tempered Clavier Preludes and Fugues.

For the purpose of alternate picking guitar technique  I start with prelude no 2 from book I WLC in C minor.  We will get multiple tasks done when learning that short piece:

• alternate picking right hand workout - including inside and outside picking as well as string skipping
• scales and arpeggios workout at the same time - because this prelude is an epic mixture of those two most popular sequences of sounds
• practice the full scale of the guitar - from position I to position XVII

However the biggest advantage I see, is that we not only are building our technique but we have deep insight into one of the greatest musical mind of all times.  What I mean exactly is that we learn from J.S. Bach directly:

• motivic development - most of his music is based on strong motives
• harmonic progression possibilities - mostly over pedal bass note in this prelude
• accents - very simple accents on beats 1 and 3
• dexterity and stamina - Bach's music has one very interesting feature: if you miss just one note - everybody will know it immediately (even non-pro listeners and yourself :)

So let's get to it, there is a lot to do for our both hands!

I play both parts at: 85 ppm:

You play with me: backing track for both parts with tab & notation at 60 bpm:

More backing tracks for higher speeds will come soon.

Here you can download full files with tab+notation as well as mp3 backing tracks  - I'll be grateful if you share or subscribe to my videos 

Please make sure that you are practicing correctly i.e:

• no tension in neck, arms, hands, finger neither in your legs nor belly
• left hand fingers bent in last joint to press the string with fingertip flesh close to nail
• left hand fingers spread gently (not touching one another when unnecessary)
• start very slowly  - no tempo or much slower than 60bpm - until you find you best fingerings for left hand
• check various LH fingerings to make sure your right hand alternate picking is as comfortable as possible
• enjoy great music when practicing!

If you have any question use the comments section below.