Tag: Guitar

Fourth finger Hammer-on and Pull-off exercise
by koree

I’m going to start occasionally posting the things I’m working on on guitar. Hopefully this might help you as well while you’re stuck at home and trying to improve your chops.

This exercise works your fourth finger, while doing both hammers and pulls, and alternates between incorporating the third and second fingers in the motion. It is a segment of the E major/D Flat minor scale. As written, it will sound more like E major.

Start this exercise at 40 bpm. Try to get up to at least 200bpm. But shoot for 320bpm. This would enable you to do this as sixteenth note triplets at 160bpm.

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Enjoy!

Weekly Guitar Lesson: Daily Guitar Workout
by koree

I’m going to be updating weekly with my current guitar practice routines, just in case anyone is interested in trying these out.  Right now, I have just finished tabbing out my daily exercise.  This includes some scales that I play every day, plus a little bit of extra stuff that I’m working on currently.  This routine changes all the time, and I’ll repost it occasionally when it has been updated.

The practice routine currently includes a four-fret exercise for finger dexterity, the blues minor scale, the harmonic minor scale, and a set of triplet arpeggios in a I III V vii ii III progression.  This workout is meant to be played several times in a practice session, starting at a low BPM (such as 40 or 60), and then bringing the BPM up 5 to 10 each time it is played.  Once you have reached the maximum speed at which you can play the workout, try to edge the metronome up 1 or 2 BPM at a time until you cannot play the part anymore.  This will allow you to push just a little further, and that’s where the speed increase comes from!

You can find a PDF of the lesson here.

Have fun, and good shredding!