Developing Fingers without Guitar

July 13, 2009 Warming Up | No comments yet

Do you have some spare time and no guitar around? Try these exercises:

They are great no just for warm up, but for developing finger independence as well.  »

Chromatic workout. Part 1

July 3, 2009 Warming Up | No comments yet

Workout is not just for sportsmen, it is necessary for musicians as well. Exercise that I will show you today, is played by generations of guitar players. Perhaps it is single best exercise to develop and keep the chops up. It is equally great for the fretting hand (finger independence) and picking hand (alternate picking) as well as for two hands synchronization.

Here is the basic form of the exercise:

As you can see each finger is responsible for one fret. I start with the 1st fret only because the pattern is more obvious there (fret number corresponds to the finger number). It is advised to start playing the pattern higher on the neck (say 12th fret and then move down to the nut).

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