Complete Beginner's Practice Guide
Beginner's Class Practice Guide
Class 1
Warm-Up Exercises
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Hopping
- Maintain gentle contact between your thumb and the back of the neck.
- Allow your thumb to move across the back of the neck as you change strings
- Engage the string very close to the fret, but not on top of it.
- Keep the active fingertip bent.
Focus on
one thing at a time!
Melodic Practice
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Blues in A
- Improvise a guitar solo over the provided backing track
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Box #1 (Part 1)
- Use the note A [string (4), fret 7, finger 3] to improvise a catchy rhythm over the ‘Blues in A’ backing track.
- Think of a sentence, and use the natural flow of the syllables in the sentence to help with developing your catchy
rhythm.
Harmonic Practice
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D-chord build-up
- Play the “5x in a row” game: first with the guide finger, then each subsequent finger, starting from lowest sounding
string to highest sounding string.
- D-chord build-up: start with finger 1, then 1 & 2, then 1, 2, & 3.
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G-chord build up
- Play the “5x in a row” game: first with the guide finger, then each subsequent finger, starting from lowest sounding
string to highest sounding string.
- G-chord build-up: start with finger 2, then 2 and 1, then 2, 1, and 3.
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chord changing game
-Play the chord changing game on level 1 between G-chord and D- chord
D-Chord Build up
1.1 - finger 1 at easy
1.2 - finger 1 at medium
1.3 - finger 1 at difficult
1.4 - finger 1 at expert
2.1 - fingers 1 and 3, at easy
2.2 - fingers 1 and 3, at medium
2.3 - fingers 1 and 3 at difficult
2.4 - fingers 1 and 3 at expert
D-Chord Complete
1 - all three fingers at easy
2 - all three fingers at medium
3 - all three fingers at difficult
4 - all three fingers at expert
G-Chord Build up
1.1 - finger 2 at easy
1.2 - finger 2 at medium
1.3 - finger 2 at difficult
1.4 - finger 2 at expert
2.1 - fingers 2 and 1, at easy
2.2 - fingers 2 and 1, at medium
2.3 - fingers 2 and 1 at difficult
2.4 - fingers 1 and 3 at expert
G-Chord Complete
1 - all three fingers at easy
2 - all three fingers at medium
3 - all three fingers at difficult
4 - all three fingers at expert
D-G Chord Changing Game
1 - easy
2 - medium
3 - difficult
4 - expert
G-D Chord Changing Game
1 - easy
2 - medium
3 - difficult
4 - expert