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The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners: Beginner Exercises for Guitar that Improve Technique and Accelerate Development
Beginner Guitar Build Your Guitar Technique the Right Way – Fast!With over 500,000 guitar method books sold, Fundamental Changes has created the ultimate course of guitar exercises for beginners.
The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners is the quickest way to gain technique, control, strength, stamina and speed on the guitar.
Unlike some books that take a “technical drill” approach, this book gets you playing real music right away. Why practise boring exercise you’ll never want to play again? Here is a method that combines learning the technique of the guitar with the fun of playing music.
Do you want to build your guitar picking, legato, strength, stamina, chord changes and speed?Do you want to avoid the bad habits that many self-taught beginners pick up?Learn the fundamental skills of guitar playing, from actual professional guitaristsThere are plenty of “teachers” out there whose lessons actually hold you back. Guitar Exercises for Beginners combines the favourite exercises of all the Fundamental Changes teachers. With over 100 guitar method guides, and over 300 years combined experience in teaching guitar, you know you’re getting the best tuition money can buy.
You’ll learn the following skills:
Effective fretting, technique and seamless left-hand / right-hand coordinationPick control, speed and fluencyThe correct way to finger pick, along with some beautiful picking patternsHow to actually strum and change chords, so you play the right rhythm – every timeBending accurately and in tune, all over the neckEssential scales and melodic patterns you can use to solo – right awaySpeed and finger strength building exercisesDrills to nail your hammer-ons and pull-offs
Learn beginner guitar skills that will last a lifetime.As well as teaching you the basic skills of guitar playing, such as how to fret and pick chords, from the outset you’ll be taught skills that will set you up for a lifetime of enjoyment with the guitar. Unlock countless pieces of guitar music with The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginner.
Learn to read guitar tab (the simple, universal language for reading guitar music)Learn to identify and read rhythms in tab and standard musical notationCreate the perfect practice schedule, set healthy goals for practice and learn how to make continual progress on your guitarQuickly move from beginner to more advanced skillsThe First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners is a layered, proven method that allows beginner guitarists to make rapid and musical progress on guitar. Once you’ve learnt the fundamental skills of how to play guitar, you will quickly move on to more advanced skills and begin to get creative. Learn,
The Minor Pentatonic scale – the basis of all blues and rock musicMusical-sounding major scale exercisesHow to navigate your way around the fretboardHow to slide in and out of notesHow to bend notes like your favourite guitar playersMore advanced techniques, such as hammer-ons and pull-offsLearn to Play the Right Way, From Day One!The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners draws on over 300 years&rsquo
The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners is the quickest way to gain technique, control, strength, stamina and speed on the guitar.
Unlike some books that take a “technical drill” approach, this book gets you playing real music right away. Why practise boring exercise you’ll never want to play again? Here is a method that combines learning the technique of the guitar with the fun of playing music.
Do you want to build your guitar picking, legato, strength, stamina, chord changes and speed?Do you want to avoid the bad habits that many self-taught beginners pick up?Learn the fundamental skills of guitar playing, from actual professional guitaristsThere are plenty of “teachers” out there whose lessons actually hold you back. Guitar Exercises for Beginners combines the favourite exercises of all the Fundamental Changes teachers. With over 100 guitar method guides, and over 300 years combined experience in teaching guitar, you know you’re getting the best tuition money can buy.
You’ll learn the following skills:
Effective fretting, technique and seamless left-hand / right-hand coordinationPick control, speed and fluencyThe correct way to finger pick, along with some beautiful picking patternsHow to actually strum and change chords, so you play the right rhythm – every timeBending accurately and in tune, all over the neckEssential scales and melodic patterns you can use to solo – right awaySpeed and finger strength building exercisesDrills to nail your hammer-ons and pull-offs
Learn beginner guitar skills that will last a lifetime.As well as teaching you the basic skills of guitar playing, such as how to fret and pick chords, from the outset you’ll be taught skills that will set you up for a lifetime of enjoyment with the guitar. Unlock countless pieces of guitar music with The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginner.
Learn to read guitar tab (the simple, universal language for reading guitar music)Learn to identify and read rhythms in tab and standard musical notationCreate the perfect practice schedule, set healthy goals for practice and learn how to make continual progress on your guitarQuickly move from beginner to more advanced skillsThe First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners is a layered, proven method that allows beginner guitarists to make rapid and musical progress on guitar. Once you’ve learnt the fundamental skills of how to play guitar, you will quickly move on to more advanced skills and begin to get creative. Learn,
The Minor Pentatonic scale – the basis of all blues and rock musicMusical-sounding major scale exercisesHow to navigate your way around the fretboardHow to slide in and out of notesHow to bend notes like your favourite guitar playersMore advanced techniques, such as hammer-ons and pull-offsLearn to Play the Right Way, From Day One!The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners draws on over 300 years&rsquo
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Published March 13, 2019
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September 15, 2019
Pros:
- I appreciate the "no BS," teaching style of the book, and in particular its ethos of learning technique to playing songs (rather than technique for technique's sake)
- The book covers a reasonable array of techniques
- The book includes audio recordings for some (but not all) musical passages pictures in the book
Cons:
- The mechanics of some techniques would be easier to comprehend via in-person instruction or via video. I found this to be particularly true regarding the book's explanation of the pull-off.
- (nit-pick) I found that my laptop had trouble sizing some of the exercises, and they appeared too small to read
- (nit-pick) Those looking for music theory beyond the very basics you can look elsewhere. Then again, this is only supposed to be the "1st 100 exercises," so I can't begrudge the author too much.
Conclusion
I still can't play all of the exercises perfectly or to tempo, but the book provided a positive enough experience that I have already bought another two "Fundamental Changes," eBooks. Ultimately, this book is best paired with in-person instruction, but I think its also likely to be good enough for those who are self-motivated enough to put in the time to learn its contents.
- I appreciate the "no BS," teaching style of the book, and in particular its ethos of learning technique to playing songs (rather than technique for technique's sake)
- The book covers a reasonable array of techniques
- The book includes audio recordings for some (but not all) musical passages pictures in the book
Cons:
- The mechanics of some techniques would be easier to comprehend via in-person instruction or via video. I found this to be particularly true regarding the book's explanation of the pull-off.
- (nit-pick) I found that my laptop had trouble sizing some of the exercises, and they appeared too small to read
- (nit-pick) Those looking for music theory beyond the very basics you can look elsewhere. Then again, this is only supposed to be the "1st 100 exercises," so I can't begrudge the author too much.
Conclusion
I still can't play all of the exercises perfectly or to tempo, but the book provided a positive enough experience that I have already bought another two "Fundamental Changes," eBooks. Ultimately, this book is best paired with in-person instruction, but I think its also likely to be good enough for those who are self-motivated enough to put in the time to learn its contents.
February 12, 2020
I wish I had this book when I was 16.
I've played guitar now for several years, mostly as a hobby. As is true of most amateur guitar enthusiasts, I spent most of my time messing around, creating strange sounds and playing around with tabs of my favorite songs that I found online. I knew basic barre chords and a few open chords, and that was about it.
This book would have helped me a lot in those early days. Alexander works you through all of the basics, from how to hold the guitar to how to hold the pick, how to ensure that your right and left hands are in harmony, how to play major scales, how to strum, how to play slides, bends, and do a few other tricks. These are all the basic elements of guitar playing, yet here they are explained in such simplicity and clarity that anybody could understand them.
The exercises work wonders, too. I can finally do some basic fingerstyle patterns, and I now know the appropriate place to put my right hand for effective palm muting.
I can't think of any drawback to this method. There are no corny songs to play, and everything is presented at a very slow, deliberate pace.
If I had this book when I was 16, I'd be much better than I am today.
I've played guitar now for several years, mostly as a hobby. As is true of most amateur guitar enthusiasts, I spent most of my time messing around, creating strange sounds and playing around with tabs of my favorite songs that I found online. I knew basic barre chords and a few open chords, and that was about it.
This book would have helped me a lot in those early days. Alexander works you through all of the basics, from how to hold the guitar to how to hold the pick, how to ensure that your right and left hands are in harmony, how to play major scales, how to strum, how to play slides, bends, and do a few other tricks. These are all the basic elements of guitar playing, yet here they are explained in such simplicity and clarity that anybody could understand them.
The exercises work wonders, too. I can finally do some basic fingerstyle patterns, and I now know the appropriate place to put my right hand for effective palm muting.
I can't think of any drawback to this method. There are no corny songs to play, and everything is presented at a very slow, deliberate pace.
If I had this book when I was 16, I'd be much better than I am today.
March 14, 2021
This is a good book. The only reason why I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is that it could really help a beginner to know what top speed you should reach with each exercise to know you have fully mastered it. Not only for the short term but for the long term as well.
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