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Anyone know any good sites to find really challenging excerises? I am looking more for a physical workout, just to get my hand used to going in bizarre ways. I been playing a while, and I have a lot of training and school work behind me in theory and classical studies and all that, I am just looking for a new way to punish myself. Not looking to try new style or do all that, been there done that...just looking to beef my skillz up!!! Haha! Any help would be much appreciated.

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It's really not that difficult to devise harder exercises for yourself. Just practise what is awkward for your hands (obviously this is different for most people) or try adding gaps in between the notes of exercises you normally do.

eg. Instead of

1-2-3-4
1-2-3-4

blah blah, you would play

1---2---3---4
1---2---3---4

Just for extra stretchy goodness.

If this isn't quite what you wanted, try this:

http://duet.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=779028

Then there's also big string skips and trills which are generally good exercises.

:)

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What about creating them yourself?

Challenge yourself to see what is the weirdest, most bizarro exercise you can create. Like maybe, what's the most confusing, convoluted sequence you can come up with using 4 notes per string and spanning 6 frets? Or something like that.

Or try taking existing exercises that you have and play them backwards. Or kinda invert the strings (i.e. what you were playing on the 1st string would instead be played on the 6th, 2nd on 5th, etc etc) for an existing exercise.

The great thing is that the act of creating your own exercises is an exercise in and of itself... but all that being said, there are probably a whole smorgasboard of web sites with finger exercises...

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