Guitar Exercises For Dummies

Train your fingers to become a lean, mean guitar-playing machine!
Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You'll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter.
* Review basic guitar fundamentals - posture, holding the guitar, sitting and standing with the guitar
* Brush up on guitar notation - decoding tablature, comprehending chord diagrams, interpreting neck diagrams, recognizing rhythm slashes
* Warm up away from the guitar - release tension, improve breathing, prepare your mind and body to play
* Wake up those fingers - limber up your fingers by playing simple exercises
* Develop strength, speed, and independence - play single-note patterns and chord progressions
Open the book and find:
* More than 300 exercises in various keys, positions, and rhythms
* Drills & tips to perfect your playing and maximize your practice time
* Technique building opportunities
* Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords
* Full-length pieces to play along with
* Ways to improve your musicianship
Bonus CD Includes
* Selected exercises from each chapter
* Every performance piece
* Open string tuning notes
* Metronome tracks of different tempos