Looking for a Good Learning Program

[Mal]

To start with, I am not a newbie to guitar but that is not to say I am good. What I have is years of bad habits and blind spots in my playing, not to mention the limitations which I have joined AM to help overcome.

I am trying to set myself a sort of expansion program.

For example, learn new chords, improve my rhythm playing by tackling new patterns, extend my knowledge and practise of scale forms and so on. For example my percussive strums and mutes are frankly crap.

There are many aspects to playing guitar and I find time spent on specific aspects helps me more readily learn parts of Brian’s compositions, but usually some parts elude me – so then I am a bit stuck till I nail that aspect.

So what I am looking for are ideas that people have already sorted out for a sort of general guitar gym exercises. I don’t want to play fast so much as play with precision and good timing.

Any ideas or comments would be appreciated.

Regards

Mal

Mal
Toowoomba,
Queensland
Australia

[Martin W]

Hi for me playing with perfect timing is a absolute must before anything else , I always make a point of counting the beats and learning where the rest beats are if any , one warm up exercise I use a lot is pick a scale that you are learning and play it in 8th notes 1&2&3&4 and count the beats as you play them then move on to 8th note triplets and then 16th notes etc it’s also a good exercise for pick direction shortest distance to the next note ,there are probably many ways to practise,but developing that inner clock is absolutely priority for me .hope this helps ,happy picking
Cheers Martin

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