A guitar-playing practice guide with hundreds of warm-up and technique-building exercises If you already play some guitar but need some practice, you're in the right place. Guitar Exercises For Dummies is a friendly guide that provides just enough need-to-know information about practicing scales, chords, and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques to help you maximize its 400+ exercises and improve your guitar playing. (If you need instruction on topics like buying or tuning a guitar and playing basic chords, check out Guitar For Dummies.) This practical book 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. Each section helps you to practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations, such as fingering options and hand positions, and then ends with a brief musical piece for you to try. You can also practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in your exercises, such as: Tempo Time signature Phrasing Dynamics The book wraps up with tips to help you maximize your practice time (like setting goals for each session), ways to improve your musicianship (such as studying other performers’ body language), and an appendix that explains the accompanying website (where you can find audio tracks and additional information). Grab your guitar, grab a copy of Guitar Exercises For Dummies, and start perfecting your finger picking today. P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Guitar Exercises For Dummies (9780470387665). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

(Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.

(Guitar Educational). Guitar Workout is an intensive, comprehensive program that will increase your speed, agility, and creativity. This is the ultimate workout for any guitarist who wants to accelerate and articulate their speed picking! Train like a professional while gaining a greater understanding of the diatonic major scale, scale harmony, and the picking technique needed to play super-fast licks and riffs with melodic intelligence and creativity. Internationally renowned guitarist John Heussenstamm leads you through rigorous single-note warm-up exercises, speed drills, fingering patterns, sweeps, arpeggios, and melody construction.

Have you been practicing for hours and hours with little progress? Here's how to get the most out of your practice sessions. "Practice, practice, practice until you can play it right!" The biggest lie the industry wants you to believe. A big fat lie! You shouldn't have to practice for hours or wait for years to be able to play your favorite songs. It sucks the joy out of learning the guitar and makes it boring and tedious. Yes, you need to practice. But not as much as you've been told to! With the right practice strategy - you can get 10x results out of each practice session. And it's disturbing to see so many beginner guitarists fall into the trap of practicing with no end. To solve this problem - we created "Guitar Exercises for Beginners: 10x your guitar skills in 10 minutes a day". A book designed to provide a structured, systemized and disciplined way to practice guitar. We say you can enhance your guitar playing by practicing just 10 minutes a day. That's all it takes for most people to make incredible progress with their guitar skills. 10 minutes of the right practice every day. Automate progress in your guitar playing The book has exercises for whatever you might be practicing - finger independence, chords, scales, chord progressions etc. Pick a few exercises and practice it every day for 10 minutes - you can easily slide in these exercises into your everyday guitar routine. It's that simple! As the chapters in the book are divided according to stages of a beginner's guitar journey - the book will make sure you always have something to work on! The right way to practice With over 100 well-crafted exercises this book will ensure a balanced mix of melody, harmony and rhythm. It Starts with simple guitar tablature and finger independence exercises. Then we move up a level to things like - how to hold a pick, picking methods, and strumming patterns. Followed by exercises for techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs. With exercises dedicated to chords and scales - the book will make sure the concepts stick! After having mastered the basics - we move onto playing melodies and chords. Where we then end in style! With 10 popular chord progressions used by guitar gods such as - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Green Day, Aerosmith we'll get you ready for your journey with popular songs. Here's a glimpse of what you'll find inside A simplified way to read guitar tablature A step-by-step approach to master complete finger independence The secret method of getting rhythmic with time signatures 10 easy and popular melodies and chord progressions Learn where these exercises are applied - references from popular songs Visual references to help you nail all the methods and techniques No prior experience needed - completely beginner friendly We also provide free downloadable audio for each exercise in slow and medium tempo. Enjoy playing it and take it at your own pace, without getting frustrated or confused. Practice, practice, practice - but do it properly. What else? With this book, you'll also get a FREE PDF, access to a private community of passionate guitarists like yourself, and weekly guitar lessons. Scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button to get your copy today!

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