What exercise to do you use for a quick warm up? This is mine below. It's as much as exercise for the brain as for the left and right hands and helps get things into quickly into sync. I've notated it for the 1st string, but I play it on all six strings at the fifth fret. I also use it as an exercise for legato. I think it covers every possible left hand finger combination on one string in minimum time.
After I've warmed up a bit, I stretch the first and second left hand fingers to span two frets.
http://i.imgur.com/ITQyH5A.png
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
@mike_I. It looks like your pattern is the same as the starting pattern in each of the groups posted by viz.
I agree about playing them slowly (at least at first). In fact, for legato I find them harder to play slowly than if I take a run at them.
If I get time I'm going to transcribed and post these suggestions. Watch this space, but don't hold your breath.
Though he just does the group starting with 1234:
1234: 1234 2341 3412 4123
not the other 5 groups:
1243: 1243 2341 3412 4123
1324: 1324 3241 2413 4132
1342: 1342 3421 4213 2134
1423: 1423 4231 2314 3142 (yours I believe @stratman3142)
1432: 1432 4321 3214 2143
I quite like doing all 6 groups because they make the fingers work really independently from each other. Also, as you can see. he recommends moving across strings and/or up frets as you're doing each 4-note phrase, which I didn't show in my odd little clip.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Thanks, I will spend some time with that in a week or two when the house move is over and we're settled in.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.