Guitar Finger Exercises

A home gym for your hands.

 

Did you know that effective finger exercises can be one of the keys to your success and spectacular playing ability?
Have your fingers ever not cooperated? Bar chords hard to form and hold? Guitar fingerpicking not as fast and accurate as you think it should be?
Guitar finger exercises can help. They have helped my finger strength, flexibility and speed tremendously.

Maybe your hands gave out on you 20 minutes into your 4 hour practice session?

How do professionals practice huge amounts of practice a day?

Are they super-human? Maybe.

Most likely they have a program of effective guitar finger exercises. One thing I can almost guarantee their hands are in great shape.

Another thing I'm almost sure of - they have probably had their share of repetitive stress injuries. Sometimes that how it works, people have to learn the hard way.

If you want to play for all of your life, get and stay in top physical shape. That usually takes a regular schedule of guitar finger exercises, proper practice techniques, nutrition and rest from workouts for recovery.

I'll give the following advice for guitar finger exercises and any other physical exercise routine.

Make sure you consult your doctors on anything I suggest here and do not start any exercise program without your medical doctors consent.

So what are the objectives that we should be seeking with a program of guitar finger exercises?

1. To build strong hands and fingers and speed your progress while learning how to play guitar.

2.To increase your guitar fingerpicking abilities,

3. Strengthen your hands and fingers to improve your technique by improving your abilty to form chords, building flexibility and dexterity confidence while playing the guitar.

4. Strong pain free hands with the agility, speed, control and endurance to play the things we want to play and continue to practice and improve continually.

So what your needing is strong finger independence which is the ability to isolate the movements of one finger at a time while keeping the others as still as possible. A effective regular program of guitar finger exercises can vastly speed your progress.

5. Finger strength and endurance. By exercising and strengthening the gripping muscles for holding chords and the extensor muscles of the hand for the ability to move quickly over the fretboard.

This is needed for gripping bar chords as well as open chords and fingerpicking. Guitar finger exercises 1 -Alternating picking and fretting hand speed

The first speed and strength exercise seems simple and is but Increase the speed gradually and take your time with the transition to upward stroke when you reverse directions.

Using upward strokes as well as downward strokes leads to a versatility in your picking helping you change directions with finesse.

Directions for guitar speed and finger strength exercise 1 - start on any fret on the 6th or fattest string. The numbers are for your fingers. 1,2,3 and 4. When you get to your 4Th finger (pinky) switch to your first finger on the next string. Start with a down, up alternate picking pattern.

When you run out of strings and you come to your 4Th finger change directions using a upward stroke to start your alternate picking. Continue with a up, down alternate picking pattern.

 

Practice Tips:

1. Be patient with yourself. Slow and relaxed hand movements will speed you towards you end results of finger and hand strength speed and accuracy.

2. Concentrate on small movements of the pick. Almost a rotating movement of the tip of the pick.

3. Use palm muting to keep the strings under control while you are learning accuracy.

4. Get the movement down first and then use the metronome at a slow tempo and then increase the tempo as you gain confidence and accuracy.

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