Hi there I'm Tomas from Real guitar Success. Today I'm going to show you
a super finger guitar exercise workout for the beginner guitar player.
Once you've learned this and kind of got it under your belt it makes a great
warm-up routine. Let's go ahead and get started.
First off, let's start with a little stretching to get warmed up.
I'll put a link to the video with more instructions on stretching exercises if
you're interested. Now let's start with the first exercise.
I call this finger developer number 2. We're gonna start on the
5th fret
and we're gonna do one finger at a time. Sounds like this...
5th fret onto the 6th, 7th, 8th fret.
Now we go on to the next string - 5th fret
6th
Be sure to get your fingers closed to the fret so that you get
a good sounding clear note with as little effort as possible.
We're gonna do the same thing all the way on the 4th string, 3rd string,
2nd string and on the 1st string. Make sure and go slow so you have
time to play evenly and to get the little subtleties correct also stay
relaxed. If you feel pain or if you're getting
tensed up stop and just shake out your hand a little bit
and try it again. Now let's go on to the second exercise it's getting more
interesting this one I call the spider number one 1
but we're not going to use the right hand.
This is going to be strictly for the left hand but there's more to come.
So you'll start by putting your finger on that same 5th fret
then the 6th fret, 7th fret and 8th fret.
You'll notice that I have my fingers still down. I don't let the other fingers
up as I place them down. So far it looks similar to the finger
developer number 2 but it's not. Watch. Now we go on to the
5th string and I keep the 3 fingers down
as I move the first finger over, that's the key.
And that's why I'm not using the right hand yet. This deserves a tension
in and of itself just the left hand. Now the second finger,
third finger and fourth finger. Now everything is on the 5th string.
I'm moving over to the 4th, same thing - 2, 3 and pinky over
and the same thing onto the 3rd string onto the second2nd string
and onto the 1st string.
So you want to do each of these exercises probably just for
a minute really and you're welcome to do it longer if you want but
I'm using this as a warm-up mostly for myself. When you're first learning it
takes a little time to get comfortable with it so you might
want to do it for a little bit longer. But over time as it gets to be
kind of second nature you can relax into it and pay more attention to each of the
little details. Now let's go on to the third exercise
I'll call this spider number 2. Now we're going to add the right hand
and it is a little trickier you'll see. It works better if you've done spider
number 1 for a little bit. As you do spider number 2,
you pick each of the strings.
Now I'm going to move the first finger over and hit the 5th string with my
right hand. There's a strong tendency if you're not
careful to mute like that
the 5th string with the fingers that are still on the 6th string.
It's nothing but practice and you don't realized when you're doing it without a
pick that maybe your finger is leaning over but it gives you a chance
to get used to the fingering before you start using the pick.
This will take a little concentration so it looks like this.
I'm doing all down picking.
After you've done each of these exercises, you've completed
this exercise routine. Of course, if you want to up to any as you get good at
it you can start speeding it up a little bit.
You can also instead of just going one direction
go back the other way which will make it a little more challenging. The best way
to use these finger exercises is to learn them, memorize them and then
practice them very slowly at first and little by little pick up the speed
as you feel more comfortable. I still use these exercises almost every
day and they've really helped me. See one of
the main things with playing guitar is it teaches your fingers to go in the
right place and to move independently. It's a real valuable asset. Little by
little it'll work for you. Thanks for joining me today. If you
appreciate what ism doing give me a thumbs up.
This is a part of my 30-day coaching series and I'd love to hear from you.
If there's some other videos you think you would benefit from. I'm going to end
this video with a series of play alongs that you
can use to practice along with. Have fun.
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