Guitar Exercises for Dummies

Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 400 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It 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. Concluding each section is a brief musical piece for the reader to try. Within each section, readers practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations such as fingering options and hand positions as appropriate. Readers practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in their exercises as well, such as tempo, time signature, phrasing, and dynamics. Supportive text is limited by providing only need to know information about practicing scales, chords and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques.
 
Your straightforward guide to perfecting guitar exercises Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities.
 
This book begins 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. Concluding each section is a brief musical piece for the reader to try.
 
Within each section, readers practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations such as fingering options and hand positions as appropriate. Readers practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in their exercises as well, such as:
* tempo
* time signature
* phrasing
* and dynamics
 
Supportive text provides need to know information about practicing scales, chords and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques.
 
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!

List of contents

Introduction 1
 
Part 1: Preparing to Practice 7
 
Chapter 1: Reviewing Guitar Fundamentals 9
 
Chapter 2: Warming Up for Your Practice Sessions 13
 
Part 2: Scales and Scale Sequences 19
 
Chapter 3: Putting the Major Scales to Use in Your Playing 21
 
Chapter 4: Adding Major Scale Sequences to Your Repertoire 33
 
Chapter 5: Tackling the Three Minor Scales 45
 
Chapter 6: Examining Minor Scale Sequences 71
 
Part 3: Arpeggios and Arpeggio Sequences 89
 
Chapter 7: Breaking Out with Major Arpeggios 91
 
Chapter 8: Discovering How to Play Major Arpeggio Sequences 99
 
Chapter 9: Getting to Know Minor Arpeggios 109
 
Chapter 10: Looking at Minor Arpeggio Sequences 119
 
Chapter 11: Enhancing Your Playing with Seventh Chord Arpeggios 131
 
Chapter 12: Trying Your Hand at Seventh Chord Arpeggio Sequences 153
 
Part 4: Chords and Additional Exercises 167
 
Chapter 13: Building Finger Independence with Chord Exercises 169
 
Chapter 14: Developing Strength and Speed by Playing Single-Note Exercises 191
 
Part 5: The Part of Tens 201
 
Chapter 15: Ten Tips for Maximizing Your Practice Time 203
 
Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Improve Your Musicianship 207
 
Appendix A: How to Use the Website 211

About the author

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.

Summary

Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 400 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It 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. Concluding each section is a brief musical piece for the reader to try. Within each section, readers practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations such as fingering options and hand positions as appropriate. Readers practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in their exercises as well, such as tempo, time signature, phrasing, and dynamics. Supportive text is limited by providing only need to know information about practicing scales, chords and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques.

Your straightforward guide to perfecting guitar exercises Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities.

This book begins 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. Concluding each section is a brief musical piece for the reader to try.

Within each section, readers practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations such as fingering options and hand positions as appropriate. Readers practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in their exercises as well, such as:
* tempo
* time signature
* phrasing
* and dynamics

Supportive text provides need to know information about practicing scales, chords and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques.

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!

Product details

• Authors: Jon Chappell, Chappell Jon, M Phillips, Mark Phillips, Mark Chappell Phillips
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781119694564
• ISBN: 978-1-119-69456-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Musik, Lifestyle, Music, Gitarrenspiel, Lifestyles