![]() ![]() In both the exercises above, you’re using notes that find themselves in one position on the guitar fretboard.Ī way to increase your options when creating guitar riffs, licks, and solos, is to shift from one position of the scale to another. The next exercise is a sequence on the minor pentatonic scale and makes broad leaps to improve your string skipping technique. Wider leaps, those that involve skipping one or more strings are more difficult to execute. In the above exercise, you’re playing notes that come from adjacent strings. Exercise 2: Wide intervals/string skipping. However, if used correctly and the other elements of great guitar playing are in place, the ability to play fast on the guitar actually proves that your skills are above those of an average guitar player. Thus, they bore everyone to death when they try to show off their skills. The reason is that they’re able to play fast, but not to create melodies with good phrasing. ![]() It is true that some guitarists gave playing very fast, or shredding, a bad name. Though building speed on the guitar is just one component of great guitar playing, it is important for advancing guitarists to start building their speed, both as an expressive tool, and to impress others. Note: While the guitar exercises in this lesson should be played at the given tempo, most of the exercises in today’s lesson, can be played at a faster speed than that given in the exercise. Ascending, you should do the same, but use pull-offs instead. In this exercise, you’re given a scale sequence over the scale of A minor natural, using a three-note per string pattern.ĭescending, you should pick the first note of each triplet and hammer on the other two notes. Advanced Guitar Exercises Exercise 1: Fast legato runs In these exercises, we’ll be using techniques such as fast legato runs, string skipping, position shifting, as well as string bends that go beyond the more common upward bend. Options you didn’t have when you were a beginner or an early intermediate guitar player. ![]() These advanced guitar exercises are aimed at training you to have more options for creating music. That said, if you’re an advanced guitarist, you will also want to learn things that increase in speed and complexity. In these lessons, I show you how to come up with your own guitar riffs, licks, and solos.Īs explained in those lessons, your riffs, licks, and solos don’t need to be complex and fast to be of good quality. ![]()
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