Today I´ve done a very good outside picking lesson for your pricking hand. “Good” in senses of musicality.
It is a classical sounding chord progression.
The hot spots playing this thing at higher paces (180 BPM, 8th notes) to get the chord changes right without lossing a note.
Don´t try to fret the notes with all fingers at the same time (especially bar 9 and 10) try to make a senseful order to make the fretting process beeing as easy as possible if you got this motion done perfectly in a slow tempo, speed up step by step till changing chords happens flawlessly.
Start playing it with a downstroke and alternate picking throughout. Outside picking is much more natural to me and for this reason I can reach higher speeds and more control compared to inside picking.

First two bars:

Guess what chord this is? Well, there is a g (open g string) , there is a bb and a d makes a Gminor chord.

This chord is not as easy to identify like the prior one. Tell me what you think

Remember my words about fretting notes not simultanously. For this dominant D7 chord try to fret the c on first position 2nd string first and then the a note an 3rd string. Try to concentrate on changing those chords without loosing the time.

I played this progression with significant muting with my palm, try to switch between the two feels of palm muted and freely ringing strings to add dynamics.

Audio (mp3)

(Mozart - Alla Turca)
I will post the second part tomorrow

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