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Dexterity exercises?


One Bad Monkey

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I've spent most of this week of vacation woodshedding my guitarist's musical, Old Timer. It's a rock musical, although I'd argue it falls under a metal musical if that's a term. Anyway, I'm having issues with matching up the 16th notes in his tune American Original (which can be found here). Anyone have any ideas on it? I'm trying to match the bassline on the recording, but my illustrious friend was the one that did the bass part too.

 

So, any dexterity exercises you guys do, or would recommend? I'd like to match the line note for note, but have a couple other options to show him when rehearsal starts next Thursday (one simple 16th pattern, a Steve Harris galloping type thing, etc..).

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I post this every three months or so:

 

This is a good dexterity excercise to do while watching TV

 

Start with your index finger on the E string (say, start at 3rd fret G)and have your other fingers span four frets, one per fret

1-index

2-middle finger

3-ring

4-pinky

 

Now go from string to string with the following excercises. As you go to each string, go up one fret i.e. If your index finger starts at 3rd fret on the "E" string (G),go up one to the 4th fret of the A-String (C#), etc...

 

1-2-3-4

1-2-4-3

1-3-2-4

1-3-4-2

1-4-2-3

1-4-3-2

2-1-3-4

2-1-4-3

2-3-1-4

2-3-4-1

etc

etc

etc

etc

etc

 

It works the picking hand as well

 

make yourself go faster and faster, but dont go any faster than you can execute the notes clean and precise

 

...after this, run your diatonic modes

 

Like a basketball player wearing ankle weights all day and then taking them off for the game....

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I post this every three months or so:


This is a good dexterity excercise to do while watching TV


Start with your index finger on the E string (say, start at 3rd fret G)and have your other fingers span four frets, one per fret

1-index

2-middle finger

3-ring

4-pinky


Now go from string to string with the following excercises. As you go to each string, go up one fret i.e. If your index finger starts at 3rd fret on the "E" string (G),go up one to the 4th fret of the A-String (C#), etc...


1-2-3-4

1-2-4-3

1-3-2-4

1-3-4-2

1-4-2-3

1-4-3-2

2-1-3-4

2-1-4-3

2-3-1-4

2-3-4-1

etc

etc

etc

etc

etc


make yourself go faster and faster, but dont go any faster than you can execute the notes clean and precise


...after this,
run your diatonic modes


Like a basketball player wearing ankle weights all day and then taking them off for the game....

 

 

Completely forgot about that exercise. I used to do that all the time when I still took lessons. Thanks for the reminder.

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I post this every three months or so:


This is a good dexterity excercise to do while watching TV


Start with your index finger on the E string (say, start at 3rd fret G)and have your other fingers span four frets, one per fret

1-index

2-middle finger

3-ring

4-pinky


Now go from string to string with the following excercises. As you go to each string, go up one fret i.e. If your index finger starts at 3rd fret on the "E" string (G),go up one to the 4th fret of the A-String (C#), etc...


1-2-3-4

1-2-4-3

1-3-2-4

1-3-4-2

1-4-2-3

1-4-3-2

2-1-3-4

2-1-4-3

2-3-1-4

2-3-4-1

etc

etc

etc

etc

etc


It works the picking hand as well


make yourself go faster and faster, but dont go any faster than you can execute the notes clean and precise


...after this,
run your diatonic modes


Like a basketball player wearing ankle weights all day and then taking them off for the game....

 

 

 

So would you go the first pattern up and down the strings, then the secon patern up and down the strings, or would it be the first string first pattern, second string second pattern?

 

I used to do the first one that I was asking about a while back, but I stopped because I was an idiot.

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So would you go the first pattern up and down the strings, then the secon patern up and down the strings, or would it be the first string first pattern, second string second pattern?


I used to do the first one that I was asking about a while back, but I stopped because I was an idiot.

 

 

Same pattern for all strings, just move it up ONE fret as you go from string to string

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I post this every three months or so:


This is a good dexterity excercise to do while watching TV



...after this,
run your diatonic modes

 

 

Amen. What are diatonic modes? If I do a google search would they come up? My theory is well below par.

 

Yo.

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Modes based on the major (Ionian) scale mode.

 

Ionian (Major)

Dorian (b3, b7, i.e. natural minor with raised 6th)

Phrygian (b2, b3, b6, b7)

Lydian (#4)

Mixolydian (b7)

Aeolian (Natural minor, b3, b6, b7)

Locrian (b2, b3, b5, b6, b7)

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