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- Chromatic exercises for left hand dexterity and left/right hand coordination.
- Word of warning: These exercises are boring as fuck and atonal. Your mindset going into this shouldn't be "I want to play music" or "I want to learn to play song XYZ", it should be "I am doing a workout and I want to break my personal record". Look at this as a sport.
- Repeat all of these exercises up and down the fretboard.
- Play all of them with a metronome. Start slow, work your way up. Focus on playing cleanly. If you fuck up, start over with the exercise. Playing clean is more important than playing fast. Speed will come on its own. Note down how fast you can play each exercise and try to increase the speed every session. If you can't do it, go down again. If you feel like you've hit a wall, try slowing the exercise way down and then upping the tempo to your PB again without intermediate steps.
- Take breaks regularly, let your hand rest. If you can't make any progress between two days, give it a rest.
- e||----------------------1-2----------------------||
- b||------------------1-2-----1-2------------------||
- g||o-------------1-2-------------1-2-------------o||
- d||o---------1-2---------------------1-2---------o||
- A||------1-2-----------------------------1-2------||
- E||--1-2-------------------------------------1-2--||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- e||--1-2-------------------------------------1-2----||
- b||------1-2-----------------------------1-2--------||
- g||o---------1-2---------------------1-2-----------o||
- d||o-------------1-2-------------1-2---------------o||
- A||------------------1-2-----1-2--------------------||
- E||----------------------1-2------------------------||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- e||----------------------2-1----------------------||
- b||------------------2-1-----2-1------------------||
- g||o-------------2-1-------------2-1-------------o||
- d||o---------2-1---------------------2-1---------o||
- A||------2-1-----------------------------2-1------||
- E||--2-1-------------------------------------2-1--||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- e||--2-1-------------------------------------2-1----||
- b||------2-1-----------------------------2-1--------||
- g||o---------2-1---------------------2-1-----------o||
- d||o-------------2-1-------------2-1---------------o||
- A||------------------2-1-----2-1--------------------||
- E||----------------------2-1------------------------||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- Repeat each of the above with 2nd/3rd, and 3rd/4th finger, like so:
- e||----------------------2-3----------------------||
- b||------------------2-3-----2-3------------------||
- g||o-------------2-3-------------2-3-------------o||
- d||o---------2-3---------------------2-3---------o||
- A||------2-3-----------------------------2-3------||
- E||--2-3-------------------------------------2-3--||
- 2: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- 3: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- etc.
- Move on to triplets:
- e||--------------------------------1-2-3--------------------------------||
- b||--------------------------1-2-3-------1-2-3--------------------------||
- g||o-------------------1-2-3-------------------1-2-3-------------------o||
- d||o-------------1-2-3-------------------------------1-2-3-------------o||
- A||--------1-2-3-------------------------------------------1-2-3--------||
- E||--1-2-3-------------------------------------------------------1-2-3--||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- e||--1-2-3-------------------------------------------------------1-2-3--||
- b||--------1-2-3-------------------------------------------1-2-3--------||
- g||o-------------1-2-3-------------------------------1-2-3-------------o||
- d||o-------------------1-2-3-------------------1-2-3-------------------o||
- A||--------------------------1-2-3-------1-2-3--------------------------||
- E||--------------------------------1-2-3--------------------------------||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- e||--------------------------------3-2-1--------------------------------||
- b||--------------------------3-2-1-------3-2-1--------------------------||
- g||o-------------------3-2-1-------------------3-2-1-------------------o||
- d||o-------------3-2-1-------------------------------3-2-1-------------o||
- A||--------3-2-1-------------------------------------------3-2-1--------||
- E||--3-2-1-------------------------------------------------------3-2-1--||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- e||--3-2-1-------------------------------------------------------3-2-1--||
- b||--------3-2-1-------------------------------------------3-2-1--------||
- g||o-------------3-2-1-------------------------------3-2-1-------------o||
- d||o-------------------3-2-1-------------------3-2-1-------------------o||
- A||--------------------------3-2-1-------3-2-1--------------------------||
- E||--------------------------------3-2-1--------------------------------||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- Note how the pattern starts on a different stroke on each string, alternating between up and down. You might also try picking udu,udu,udu,... or dud,dud,dud,... as a right hand exercise.
- Repeat the above 4 exercises with fingers 1-2-4, 1-3-4 and 2-3-4.
- Repeat up and down with 1-2-3-4 and 4-3-2-1.
- Try adding string changes and altering the order of the fingers:
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- e||--------------------------------------4-3-1-2--------------------------------------||
- b||------------------------------4-3-1-2---------4-3-1-2------------------------------||
- g||o---------------------4-3-1-2-------------------------4-3-1-2---------------------o||
- d||o-------------4-3-1-2-----------------------------------------4-3-1-2-------------o||
- A||------4-3-1-2---------------------------------------------------------4-3-1-2------||
- E||--1-2-------------------------------------------------------------------------4-3--||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- Invent similar chromatic exercises. You can also invent odd-numbered things like:
- e||----------------------------------------------4-2----||
- b||------------------------------------4-2---2-1-----3--||
- g||o-------------------------4-2---2-1-----3-----------o||
- d||o---------------4-2---2-1-----3---------------------o||
- A||------4-2---2-1-----3--------------------------------||
- E||--2-1-----3------------------------------------------||
- 1: u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u
- 2: d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d u d
- and vary the rhythm (quintuplets so every note is the same length; first three notes faster as 16th triplets and the other two as regular sixteenths; etc etc).
- You can also add position shifts on string changes if you want, either up or down. E.g. the previous exercise could become something like:
- e||---------------------------------------------1210----||
- b||-----------------------------------10-8--10-9----11--||
- g||o-------------------------8-6---8-7-----9-----------o||
- d||o---------------6-4---6-5-----7---------------------o||
- A||------4-2---4-3-----5--------------------------------||
- E||--2-1-----3------------------------------------------||
- String skipping can be worked into these as well (no example given).
- You should also practice trills with each pair of fingers on each string. So utilizing ONLY hammer-ons and pull-offs:
- e||-1_2_1_2_1_2_1_2---------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2_1_2-----------------------------------------------------------------||
- g||------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2_1_2-------------------------------------------------||
- d||----------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2_1_2---------------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2_1_2-----------------||
- E||-------------------------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h-1_2_1_2_1_2_1_2-||
- h p h p h p h
- e||-1_3_1_3_1_3_1_3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_3_1_3_1_3_1_3-----------------------------------------------------------------||
- g||------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_3_1_3_1_3_1_3-------------------------------------------------||
- d||----------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_3_1_3_1_3_1_3---------------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_3_1_3_1_3_1_3-----------------||
- E||-------------------------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h-1_3_1_3_1_3_1_3-||
- h p h p h p h
- e||-1_4_1_4_1_4_1_4---------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_4_1_4_1_4_1_4-----------------------------------------------------------------||
- g||------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_4_1_4_1_4_1_4-------------------------------------------------||
- d||----------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_4_1_4_1_4_1_4---------------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--1_4_1_4_1_4_1_4-----------------||
- E||-------------------------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h-1_4_1_4_1_4_1_4-||
- h p h p h p h
- e||-2_3_2_3_2_3_2_3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_3_2_3_2_3_2_3-----------------------------------------------------------------||
- g||------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_3_2_3_2_3_2_3-------------------------------------------------||
- d||----------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_3_2_3_2_3_2_3---------------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_3_2_3_2_3_2_3-----------------||
- E||-------------------------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h-2_3_2_3_2_3_2_3-||
- h p h p h p h
- e||-2_4_2_4_2_4_2_4---------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_4_2_4_2_4_2_4-----------------------------------------------------------------||
- g||------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_4_2_4_2_4_2_4-------------------------------------------------||
- d||----------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_4_2_4_2_4_2_4---------------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--2_4_2_4_2_4_2_4-----------------||
- E||-------------------------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h-2_4_2_4_2_4_2_4-||
- h p h p h p h
- e||-3_4_3_4_3_4_3_4---------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h-p-h--3_4_3_4_3_4_3_4-----------------------------------------------------------------||
- g||------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--3_4_3_4_3_4_3_4-------------------------------------------------||
- d||----------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--3_4_3_4_3_4_3_4---------------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h--3_4_3_4_3_4_3_4-----------------||
- E||-------------------------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h-p-h-3_4_3_4_3_4_3_4-||
- h p h p h p h
- Repeat these with sextuplets on each string, accentuating the 1st and 4th note of each sextuplet:
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- e||-1_2_1_2_1_2-------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2-------------------------------------------------||
- g||--------------h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2-------------------------------------||
- d||--------------------------h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2-------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2-------------||
- E||--------------------------------------------------h-p-h-p-h--1_2_1_2_1_2-||
- h p h p h
- etc.
- Further, you can do all of these exercises with stretches, i.e. trilling a major third interval, or trilling a major second interval with your 1st and 2nd fingers.
- Repeat with sets of three and four fingers.
- e||-1_2_3_2_1---------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-h-p-p--1_2_3_2_1-----------------------------------------||
- g||------------h-h-p-p--1_2_3_2_1-------------------------------||
- d||----------------------h-h-p-p--1_2_3_2_1---------------------||
- A||--------------------------------h-h-p-p--1_2_3_2_1-----------||
- E||------------------------------------------h-h-p-p--1_2_3_2_1-||
- h h p p
- e||-1_2_4_2_1---------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-h-p-p--1_2_4_2_1-----------------------------------------||
- g||------------h-h-p-p--1_2_4_2_1-------------------------------||
- d||----------------------h-h-p-p--1_2_4_2_1---------------------||
- A||--------------------------------h-h-p-p--1_2_4_2_1-----------||
- E||------------------------------------------h-h-p-p--1_2_4_2_1-||
- h h p p
- e||-1_3_4_3_1---------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-h-p-p--1_3_4_3_1-----------------------------------------||
- g||------------h-h-p-p--1_3_4_3_1-------------------------------||
- d||----------------------h-h-p-p--1_3_4_3_1---------------------||
- A||--------------------------------h-h-p-p--1_3_4_3_1-----------||
- E||------------------------------------------h-h-p-p--1_3_4_3_1-||
- h h p p
- e||-2_3_4_3_2---------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-h-p-p--2_3_4_3_2-----------------------------------------||
- g||------------h-h-p-p--2_3_4_3_2-------------------------------||
- d||----------------------h-h-p-p--2_3_4_3_2---------------------||
- A||--------------------------------h-h-p-p--2_3_4_3_2-----------||
- E||------------------------------------------h-h-p-p--2_3_4_3_2-||
- h h p p
- e||-1_2_3_4_3_2_1-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
- b||--h-h-h-p-p-p--1_2_3_4_3_2_1---------------------------------------------------------||
- g||----------------h-h-h-p-p-p--1_2_3_4_3_2_1-------------------------------------------||
- d||------------------------------h-h-h-p-p-p--1_2_3_4_3_2_1-----------------------------||
- A||--------------------------------------------h-h-h-p-p-p--1_2_3_4_3_2_1---------------||
- E||----------------------------------------------------------h-h-h-p-p-p--1_2_3_4_3_2_1-||
- h h h p p p
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