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

Mark Phillips is a guitarist, arranger, author, and editor with more than 30 years in music publishing. Jon Chappell is a multi-style guitarist, arranger, author, and journalist, and former editor of Guitar magazine. Phillips and Chappell are bestselling authors of Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Edition.