As most of my friends here know I had a right index finger joint replacement and having lots of problems (to say the least) getting that all important finger to working like it did. I'm constantly looking for good exercises and I ran across a girl on youtube doing dobro lessons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcpXTn5IhfU
So taking those same pentatonic tone and applying it the triad in any tuning, I play universal so therefore I'll try to describe the pattern I play.
String 9 8th fret (Root) 8 at the 7th fret, 8 at the 9th fret, 7 at the 8th fret,,taking it on up,,6 ate the 9th fret, 6 at the 11th fret. Cool pentatonic pattern that really helps my fingers and my left hand also. Yes there is a much "easier way to get those tones,,,but I'm doing this for the exercise. Notes would be R,b3,4,5,b7,R (I think?). Very bluesy and put on a G groove, milk it to death,,,guess it might even work over a 12 bar blues,,I, IV, V7. Easy to figure out from the triad of any tuning,,she just happens to be using a dobro.
Pick Blocking Exercise
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