exercises - warm ups
Work those fingers! I've put togethor a collection of technique and skill building exercises designed to improve your guitar playing. They range from warm up exercises, to speed building and soloing techiniques. I've started off with some warm up exercises to get your fingers in the mood for some serious playing. These exercises will also strengthen your hand and fingers, improve finger accuracy and picking techniques. As you get better, play them faster.Exercise 1: Warm ups e|-------------------------------------------1-2-3-4-----| B|-----------------------------------1-2-3-4-------------| G|---------------------------1-2-3-4---------------------| D|-------------------1-2-3-4-----------------------------| A|-----------1-2-3-4-------------------------------------| E|---1-2-3-4---------------------------------------------|When you reach the high e string, work backwards down to the lowest string again. Usually when I'm warming up, when I've gone up and then back down I move the whole thing up 1 fret and then do it again, and so on.
Below are several other example warm up exercises. Use them in the same style as the one above. (I haven't written them out fully, just the first line.)
e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| B|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| G|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| E|---1-3-2-4---|---1-3-4-2---|---1-4-2-3---|---2-1-3-4---| e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| B|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| G|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| E|---2-1-4-3---|---2-3-1-4---|---2-4-1-3---|---2-4-3-1---| e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| B|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| G|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| D|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| A|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| E|---3-1-2-4---|---3-2-1-4---|---4-3-1-2---|---4-2-1-3---|And so on...now you're ready to jam!
HINT: For an extra challenge, try picking each string once and then pull off and hammer on to play the rest.
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