A fresh idea to improve guitar technique

Once again we leave our beloved comfort zone to explore how new challenges can help us lift our guitar technique. Maybe you can expand on this idea of finding classical music passages to use in your guitar practice.
“If your looking for great exercises to help your picking, one of the best places to look is in classical music. Some of the greatest composers have written pieces that have some amazing technique building passages in them. Listen to non-guitar music and try to adapt the ideas that you hear in it to guitar. Its probably easiest to start with a somewhat similar instrument, like the violin, as I have done today. I have given you a few to help get you started. The first three are violin parts and the fourth is for organ. For more alternate picking help check out my John Petrucci Alternate Picking Lesson.”
http://guitarteacher.wordpress.com
. . . and from the same blog, a nice lesson on power chords:
“Power chords consist of a root note and its fifth. A fifth is an interval of seven semitones. Since we already defined a chord as three notes played simultaniously, a power chord is technically not a chord because it is only made up a root and a fifth and sometimes the root played an octave higher. So power chords is actually a big misnomer.”
http://guitarteacher.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/an-intro-to-power-chords/

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