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Monday, November 2
Monday is warmup day. During warmup day you will learn an exercise that you should start every day of the week off with. The exercises are invaluable in strengthening your fingers, building dexterity, helping your hands communicate with one another, and overall developing an elevated tactile awareness of your guitar. Once you learn this exercise, it is worth repeating at the start of every day of the following week, it will help catapult your playing for sure!!!
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Tony,
Any tips for folks with small hands/shorter fingers? I know the pattern but the anchor finger becomes the flying finger once I need to bring the pinky into the mix. That need to stretch to the 4th fret completely breaks my momentum as well. Worth asking!
Toshiko,
Thank you for your question, it is very much worth asking 🙂 My recommendations for curing the flying finger are to first and foremost try and cite the exact time the finger misbehaves and in most cases it is because of tension. Many times tension can be caused by trying an exercise too fast or because the fingers are just not used to it. If it is due to speed, slow the exercise down dramatically, if it is due to it being a new thing also approach with slow and deliberate movements. More often we just need to train our fingers to behave so the slow and deliberate movements of them are a huge thing to gain independence and control over them. I hope this helps you out and if you have any more questions just holler.
Cheers,
Tony
Late to the party on this one, but I’m on my own schedule!
I noticed that Tony’s lifts his anchor index finger slightly while playing the other notes, as opposed to keeping it down. Other than the slight staccato vs legato effect, mechanically is there any reason to favor one approach over the other?
Looking forward to trying this approach to lessons.
James,
Thank you for writing in!!! As far as the mechanics of my index finger on my fretting hand, there really is no reason to lift it, I think I just do it purely out of habit. It does help me isolate the pari of fingers that I am focusing on though so that may be an indirect reason that I am lifting it up.
Cheers,
Tony
new enrollee here! man that’s more difficult than you’d think. think im going to like this course.
Brian
Welcome aboard!!! Thank you for being here and this exercise is a doozy for sure… make sure to try and hit it at least once a practice session so that it starts to become more familiar. Again, thank you so much for being here in TAC land 🙂
Cheers,
Tony
I find myself barring the first fret as I work through the pattern. Think that’s ok?
It is indeed ok, ideally to build independence you would fret everything separately, but barring is ok since the other fingers still have to work, and the bonus is you get to build some barring strength with your pointer finger. Great question!!!
Cheers,
Tony
Hi Tony,
What I like about this lesson is that it works my pointer(1) and pinky(4) fingers.
Thanks!
John,
Yes!!! I am glad you got a good work out for the pointer and pinky!!! Keep up the great work!!!
Cheers,
Tony
Good first lesson. Need to come back to it more.
Arielle,
Glad you dig this one!!! You can come back as much as needed.
Cheers,
Tony