Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength and consistency as well as refining technique.
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Train your fingers to become a lean, mean guitar-playing machine!
Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You'll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter.
Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You'll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter.
- Review basic guitar fundamentals — posture, holding the guitar, sitting and standing with the guitar
- Brush up on guitar notation — decoding tablature, comprehending chord diagrams, interpreting neck diagrams, recognizing rhythm slashes
- Warm up away from the guitar — release tension, improve breathing, prepare your mind and body to play
- Wake up those fingers — limber up your fingers by playing simple exercises
- Develop strength, speed, and independence — play single-note patterns and chord progressions
- More than 300 exercises in various keys, positions, and rhythms
- Drills & tips to perfect your playing and maximize your practice time
- Technique building opportunities
- Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords
- Full-length pieces to play along with
- Ways to improve your musicianship
- Selected exercises from each chapter
- Every performance piece
- Open string tuning notes
- Metronome tracks of different tempos
About the Author
Mark Phillips is a guitarist, arranger, author, and editor with more than 30 years in music publishing. Jon Chappell is a multi-style guitarist, arranger, author, and journalist, and former editor of Guitar magazine. Phillips and Chappell are bestselling authors of Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Edition.
