YOUR STEP-BY-STEP, NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO RESULTS Would you play an entire baseball game just to practice batting? Of course not! Practice is about isolating specific skills that need work. Yet on guitar we get stuck doing the same old stuff, with no real plan, and wonder why we're not improving. The issue isn't finding things to try—there are thousands of exercises out there! The problem is making sense of it all. Where to start? What to focus on? And how to know what works? Total Guitar Workout is the complete, start-to-finish workout system for guitar! This book demystifies the key mechanics in building stamina, coordination, dexterity, and speed. These exercises are bite-sized, easy to understand, and perfect for all skill levels. Beyond building good habits long-term, you'll achieve results in just a few pages. Want an exercise book that works? Discover the skill-builders you'll wish you'd found years ago! ONLINE BONUS: This book is complete with free online bonus material. It comes bundled with a companion website to enhance your learning experience. Extras include audio examples, backing tracks, bonus downloads, and more. Join thousands of students worldwide! Like easy-to-follow lessons, pro playing tips, and jam-packed value? You'll love learning from this international bestselling instructor. SCROLL UP AND BUY NOW TO GET STARTED

(Guitar Educational). Steve Vai reveals his path to virtuoso enlightenment with two challenging guitar workouts, which include scale and chord exercises, ear training, sight-reading, music theory and much more. These comprehensive workouts are reprinted by permission from Guitar World magazine.

Jody Fisher provides instruction on warm-ups, exercises, and technical tips for students learning how to play the guitar.

Written by technical wizard Stephen Delach, the Rock Guitar Workout is a collection of technique building etudes that will catapult your playing to new heights. All of the techniques used in modern rock guitar are covered starting from the most basic picking exercises to blistering arpeggio studies. When used as a daily practice routine, the Rock Guitar Workout will undoubtedly unleash the technical virtuoso lurking within you. Topics include alternate, legato and hybrid picking, string skipping, two-hand tapping, pentatonic, blues, harmonic and natural minor scales, melodic patterns, arpeggios and much, much more. A word of caution: not for the faint of heart. In standard notation and tablature.

This book is a collection some of the main guitar exercises to improve your technique, your visualization and knowledge about scales and triads. A guide to optimize your time on the guitar in just a few weeks of vacation. The book contains a warm-up section useful to know how to start and 30 exercises into 3 chapters with more than 50 audio files to download to be able to practice. Basic exercises for beginners guitar players practicing the minor Pentatonic scale, the Major scale and Triads. At the end of each chapter you will find a table on which write the date, the BPM and note down your progress at the end of the summer.

(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.

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!