How To Improve Your Accuracy, Stamina, Dexterity And SPEED With 10 Minutes A Day of Practice
Finally: A lifetime of exercises for beginner, intermediate and advanced players, collated into a single book...
Nearly every guitar player has heard of "The Spider" or "The Ladder" exercise (have you?)...
Every guitarist knows they should be practising them (are you?)...
But is there more than that one simple chromatic exercise...?
Introducing: Chromatic Exercises To Develop Lead Guitar Technique
This book has over 70 pages of chromatic exercises, designed in three stages:
- Beginner: Simple exercises that improve your finger dexterity, equally working every finger on the neck hand
- Intermediate: These are more challenging, with a series of more complex patterns that make your fingers (and brain!) work harder
- Advanced: With these exercises we take the previous patterns, along with some new ones, and start moving around the neck in complex patterns
How 10 minutes a day will make you a better guitar player
As guitar players, we all want to improve...
Often, we are searching for that one new exercise, or practice routine that will magically make us better...
But the truth is, it's not learning lots of bits and pieces that makes us better...
What makes us better is training...
Taking a few exercises and working on them repeatedly...
In the same way that a championship basketball player will practice their freethrow thousands and thousands of times, or a great soccer player will practice the same kick thousands and thousands of times...
What makes us better as guitar players is working on the same exercises over and over and again...
And you don't have to spend hours and hours a day on them, just 10 minutes a day, every day, will help you become a better guitar player and develop your technique
In Chromatic Exercises for Lead Guitar, we lay out a simple set of exercises, with a training program and troubleshooting strategies, so that you can settle into a training routine that gets you results
Chromatic Exercises for Lead Guitar
This 76 page book contains a detailed collection of exercises for beginner, intermediate and advanced players that you can incorporate into your practice routine to give yourself a daily dose of technique training.
You will get:
- 24 beginner exercises
- 25 intermediate exercises
- 18 advanced exercises
- Details on the practicalities of technique
- Advice on applying dynamics
- Details on how to create over 400 variations of the exercises
- Details on how to troubleshoot problems with increasing speed
- A simple and effective speed training program you can build into your practice routine
Here's a breakdown of what we'll cover:
Beginner Chromatic Exercises
The first part of the book will cover chromatic exercises beginners.
We'll be covering some simple variations of the spider exercise that will force you to equally work all four figners on your frethand, so that you can develop maximum finger indepedence and dexterity.
These exercises will form the foundation of what we work on in the rest of the book.
Intermediate Chromatic Exercises
In this section we take the Beginner Exercises and take things up a notch, introducing more complex patterns that will work your fingers a lot harder.
As in the Beginner Exercises, you'll be forced to equally work every finger in every possible combination, to further develop your finger independence and dexterity.
Advanced Chromatic Exercises
In this section we move from strictly working on finger independence and start to work on moving around the fretboard.
You'll be presented with a collection of exercises which can be used as frameworks, applying the previous exercises to them to create over 400 variations of exercises that will last you a lifetime.
Technique Details
It's not just what you play, it's how you play it.
In this section we'll cover exactly how your hands should be working in order to use a good tehcnique when playing the exercises.
We'll talk about finger placement on the strings, pressure, hand-alignment, and pick-hand-focus.
How To Apply Dynamics
Often, electric guitar players have awful dynamics.
This can be due to two reasons, playing with lots of effects that mask the dynamics, or just not paying attention to them.
We'll take a quick look at dynamics, how you should be using them correctly, and if you want, how you can take the exercises and learn to control your dynamics like a classical violinist, so that you can apply them to your playing.
Trouble-shooting Speed Development Problems
At some point when developing your technique, you're going to come undone and find you hit a speed barrier...
Your hands will start to do weird things and your playing will fall apart.
In the section on trouble-shooting, we'll look at some strategies you can use to get past these barriers and exercises you can use to get your hands working together again.
The "2 2 2" Speed Training Program
If you want to play faster, you will love this.
This is a simple method I started using to develop my speed, and it works fantastically.
This program balances working at tempos that are comfortable, and keeping you right on the edge of your ability, keeping you at the "sweep spot" of learning and developing your technique and speed.
We'll give a complete description of the program and how you can start using it in your practice, today.
If you're ready to add this keystone exercise to your practice routine, hit the button below to order your copy today.
Who Is This For?
This book is for anyone who wants to add fundamental technique training to their practice routine.
It is primarily aimed at beginner-intermediate players who want a solid resource that they can use every day for their guitar practice, to develop their speed, accuracy, dexterity and stamina for playing lead guitar.
Consistent Training = Consistent Results
We all know that we need a practice routine, and that we should be working on our technique, but sometimes it's not very clear what we should be doing, at what tempos, or for how long we should be doing it.
With Chromatic Exercises for Lead Guitar Technique, you get all of that in one convenient book.
Keep it on your desk or music stand and dip into it every time you pick up your guitar, to consistently train your technique and unlock your abilities.
What You're About To Work On
- Exercises for whatever level you are at: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
- A simple and effective training program that you can start using today to train your technique.
- How to trouble shoot and overcome speed barriers.
- The correct technique you should be using for finger placement, pressure, and pick placement.
- How to effectively integrate dynamics into your practice so that you can play more musically.
Chromatic Exercises for Lead Guitar
You will learn to:
- 24 beginner exercises
- 25 intermediate exercises
- 18 advanced exercises
- Details on the practicalities of technique
- Advice on applying dynamics
- Details on how to create over 400 variations of the exercises
- Details on how to troubleshoot problems with increasing speed
- A simple and effective speed training program you can build into your practice routine
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Frequently Asked Questions
The eBook is $9USD and the paperback is $19.99USD, for which you get a complete set of exercises that you can use daily, to train your technique.
If you're a guitar player who wants to train their technique with a pick, then this will work for you.
And if it doesn't, simply email us to ask for a no questions asked refund!
This 76 page book contains chromatic exercises for beginner, intermediate and advanced players; that can be used to train lead guitar picking technique.
There are enough exercises and variations to last a lifetime.
If you choose the eBook, you will be able to download your new eBook after checkout.
If you choose the paperback, it will be posted within three working days, and you will receive a tracking link by email when it posted.
More practice is always better, but if you practice these exercises for 10 minutes a day, every day, you will see improvements in your accuracy, timing, speed and playing in general.
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About The Author
Sam has been playing guitar for nearly 20 years and has released several albums across multiple genres. He has taught 100s of students and taught workshops across Europe.
He has studied with dozens of teachers, working through courses and text books.
Sam continues to study, currently working on classical form, and is composing an album of instrumental rock songs.