Hey there I'm Tomas Michaud. Good to have you here today. I have for you a guitar finger
exercise disguised as the Peter Gunn Theme. Oh, some of you may know it as the Blues
Brother theme depending on how old you are. This was originally written by Peter Mancini.
I think for the Peter Gunn show somewhere in the 60’s or 50’s to 60’s and then of
course the Blues Brothers took it over in the 1980’s and made another hit out of it.
Now the way I'm going to show you to play this is so you can get the most bang for your buck so
here's what it looks like. We're gonna play it all on the sixth string and we're going to use four
fingers. Now if I was just playing at the player I'd probably just use my three fingers like this
but so that you get the most out of this, I'm going to turn it into an exercise that uses the
pinky and if you're early in the guitar stage or even if you've been playing for a while it's
likely you need some extra work on the pinky. So we're going to do it like this all in the sixth
string. Open E, second fret first finger, third fret second finger, fourth fret third finger
and we'll use the pinky on the fifth fret so it's going to look like this with the rhythm it's twice
then first finger on the second fret release second finger third fret release.
Now the pinky on the fifth fret and down to the fourth fret with the
third finger. Like that. Yeah, you got that. Okay so a little faster.
Try it once with me. Oh we'll do it two times slow open string twice now second fret open
second finger, pinky this time and down to the third finger. Now to get the most out of this
you want to pay attention to where you're putting your fingers. It's important to practice getting
your fingers to go right near the fret not on top of it just before the fret so you get a good clear
sound with the least amount of tension in your hands. Now it's going to be a habit so that's
why you want to practice it so after a while you don't even think about it and your finger just
goes right where it's supposed to. One more time. Try it with me. Get your guitar. Let's do it. Open
and pinky third. I'm going to go a little faster a couple of times
and then I got a play-along track for you that you can play along with it's faster that's how
I want to build you up there. Here we go 1 2 ready go. Open first finger, second finger
pinky three. Again, open first finger second finger and pinky. One more time. Open
second finger and pinky now third.
Okay now I'm gonna go ahead and we'll try it with a drummer. It's a little bit faster than this
so you might want to practice it first a little bit on your own. In any case
you'll see where you're at and then you can always come back to it - 1 2 3 4.
Well, that was fun, just a quick reminder. It's important to go slow and focus on getting your
fingers in the right place at first. You can always speed up little by little. You
see you're developing habits that will serve you as you continue on your guitar journey
so pay attention and do it right. By the way, if you'd like some help learning guitar I can help.
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