A guitar-playing practice guide with hundreds of warm-up and
technique-building exercises
If you already play some guitar but need some practice, you're in the
right place. Guitar Exercises For Dummies is a friendly guide that
provides just enough need-to-know information about practicing scales,
chords, and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques
to help you maximize its 400+ exercises and improve your guitar playing.
(If you need instruction on topics like buying or tuning a guitar and
playing basic chords, check out Guitar For Dummies.)
This practical book starts off with warm-up exercises (on and
off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale
sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on
building strength and consistency as well as refining technique. Each
section helps you to practice correct hand and body posture and
experience variations, such as fingering options and hand positions, and
then ends with a brief musical piece for you to try. You can also
practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in your
exercises, such as:
- Tempo
- Time signature
- Phrasing
- Dynamics
The book wraps up with tips to help you maximize your practice time
(like setting goals for each session), ways to improve your musicianship
(such as studying other performers' body language), and an appendix that
explains the accompanying website (where you can find audio tracks and
additional information). Grab your guitar, grab a copy of Guitar
Exercises For Dummies, and start perfecting your finger picking today.
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The
Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel,
but the content is the same as the previous release of Guitar Exercises
For Dummies (9780470387665). The book you see here shouldn't be
considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn
something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing
about new topics!
