This is something I like to give students after they've advanced through SEVERAL different 16th note based strumming patterns. It's basically a polyrhythm that starts each bar/measure. You have 4 chords evenly spaced across the first 3 beats. Beat 4 is just a quarter note to give the brain a break from playing the polyrhythm.
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It seems to be a common thing among guitar players to have some struggles with well executed legato. Hammer-ons and pull-offs lend themselves to speed so well that guitarists will often rush their notes when it's legato time.
This exercise was given to a guitar student to help them improve their pull-off rhythm/timing. You have one beat of straight picking to get the proper triplet rhythm in your head, then one beat with pull-offs. Usually, you have to think about pulling off at a slower pace to actually stay at the proper tempo!
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Most guitar players falter when it comes to playing only on the up beat. This exercise takes things further and has you playing nothing but up strokes in between the down and up beats.
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Pull-offs are often challenging for most people, as they tend to just throw their fingers down when moving to lower notes, or just letting go of the string instead of actually making a proper pull-off motion.
This exercise always follows the pattern of pick once, pull-off twice. It is important to have your fingers down on the notes to be played BEFORE you begin the pull-off motion in order to create the best sound possible.
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For most people I teach, like 95%, this particular rhythm pattern comes off as very challenging. Making sure to tap your foot only the down beats, and really feeling and counting this rhythm as it's written can feel really weird for most people.
The pattern of 16th to 8th note is repeated over and over again, which lasts 3 full bars. The 4th bar is something different to break things up before the chord progression repeats, and the weirdness begins again. Here are two ways to look at the count for all 4 bars: 1e_a2_na_en_4e_a|1_na_en_3e_a4_na|_en_2e_a3_na_en_|1_na2en_3e_a4___ ​ 1e(n)a2(e)na(3)en(a)4e(n)a|1(e)na(2)en(a)3e(n)a4(e)na|(1)en(a)2e(n)a3(e)na(4)en(a)|1(e)na2en(a)3e(n)a4(ena)
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A Minor Neo-Classical Guitar Riff/Lick - Build Pinky and Ring Finger Strength/Dexterity/Coordination12/5/2018
This is something I like to give to guitar students to help them build strength, dexterity, and coordination with their pinky and ring fingers. This riff/lick/exercise is in the key of a minor and has a very neo-classical sound.
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This rhythm pattern is something given to guitar students as an introduction to a more challenging rhythm. The basic idea is to keep strumming a 16th note, 8th note, and keep repeating that. This has you constantly changing your down and up strokes - down up ____ up down ____ down up ____ up down
To help make this concept easier to understand, you will be playing a quarter note on beat 4 for every bar. The count for each bar can be viewed in two ways: 1e_a2_na_en_4 1e(n)a2(e)na(3)en(a)4
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This short scale run is mostly descending. It kind of goes up and down, but continues to go further down the scale in C Major. I really like this sort of scale run to test how fast I can go.
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The first beat in every bar consists of a 16th note, 8th note, and another 16th note. Beats two, three, and four consist of a dotted 8th note and 16th note. Two ways you can look at the count are:
1e_a2__a3__a4__a 1e(n)a2(en)a3(en)a4(en)a
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Playing these arpeggiated triad chords will train your fretting hand to stretch and keep the fingers on their tips.
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