Guitar exercises aren’t much different than actual physical excerise. One of the things I hear the most as a guitar instructor is “I don’t have time to practice“.
Playing guitar , because it uses repetitive motion of your fingers, wrist, arm and elbow – can cause strain over time. That’s why it’s important to warm- up, and a great way to do that is with varying guitar excercises. The nice thing about guitar is that you can jump from varying “styles” of play to ensure you are a getting a full range of motion during these excercises.
Here are some great guitar exercises:
- Everyone should practice positions but let’s practice rhythm as well, instead of playing just eighth notes start playing quarters notes in a comfortable BPM and then eighth notes, triplets and sixteenth notes. There are almost endless amount of patterns but that is a good start.
- This one is super fun! let’s play the scale with diatonic intervals plenty of options there but here is one using major 6th and minor 6th.
- Final one is Pentatonic scale that we all love, but let add some string skippin’ to spice up the scale, pay attention to the Hammer on and the pull off, Important to play it firs slow and make sure all are in even sixteenth notes.
Any questions about these guitar exercises or anything else feel free to contact anytime!