Guitar Aerobics(Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings. |
Contents
CD TRACK LISTING | 2 |
INTRODUCTION | 4 |
THE TECHNIQUES | 5 |
Exercises 1365 | 6 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 110 |
GUITAR NOTATION LEGEND | 111 |
Common terms and phrases
1-8 Technique 9-16 Technique Alternate Picking Genre alternate-picking Amor A7 Arpeggios Genre arranged ascending beat CD2 Tracks chord combination descending downstroke entire example F Exercise fifth figure follow fret hand's Gmaj7 groupings guitar half hammer-ons hand index finger Jazz Music Description last week's Legato Genre let ring throughout lick major measure Metal Music Description middle finger minor pentatonic scale minor scale move mute neck notation notes notes on string octave Once pattern perform phrase played position progression pull-offs release respectively Rhythm Genre ring finger Rock Music Description Rock/Blues Music Description root sequence seventh shapes shift Similar sixteenth notes slides starting step String Bending Genre String Skipping Genre Sweep Picking Genre tapping third three-note tone triad triplet upstroke utilized voicing Week whole-step bends workout