GUITAR WORKOUT

"There`s work to be done so let`s do it but little by little" - Bob Marley, "Wake Up And Live"

If you want to make good progress on the guitar you have to practice every day. Even with daily work, however, you won`t get the full benefits if you don`t focus well. For the best result, you need to practice every aspect of lead guitar in every position every day!

We all have days when we are unable to give as much time as we would like to our practice - in this situation it is still possible to progress as long as our practice covers all the essentials.

I have developed the Guitar Workout to this end; a complete practice routine covering:

• WARM-UPS
• SLIDES AND VIBRATO
• PICKED SCALES
• SWEEPS
• LAYOVERS
• HAMMER-ONS AND PULL-OFFS
• BENDS
• DOUBLE-STOPS AND TRIADS

THE BENEFITS

The benefits of this method are in two parts: firstly, learning to play the exercises develops all the necessary skills and irons out any faults in your playing. Second, once the whole set has been mastered, 40 minutes a day spent playing the Guitar Workout will keep your technique sound, leaving time to work on other things.

A lot of books, CDs etc on guitar playing show you different scales, licks, and so on. This is fine as far as it goes. However, my experience has shown me that most students need something different; to develop the mechanical skills of guitar playing along with the necessary strength and dexterity - ie good basic technique.

GOOD TECHNIQUE

Technique is like the foundations of a building. It may take some time to develop, but all future progress depends on it. Without good basic technique your playing can never sound really good no matter how much you practice. If you've seen a building going up, you might have noticed that clearing the ground and laying foundations is a process that can take some time, and in this time not a lot appears to be happening. Once the foundations are completed though, the building work can progress very quickly.

Similarly, once you acquire the basic skills of guitar playing, you can learn the different scales, licks etc without too much trouble.

SAMPLE EXERCISES

On this site, I will feature sample exercises from the Workout series, beginning with examples on two commonly neglected aspects of guitar technique; sweeps and layovers.

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The Guitar Workout book also includes preparatory exercises, advice on the essential points of technique, and more applications of the Step Learning method.

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