Guitar Exercises For Dummies (For Dummies

by Mark Phillips, Jon Chappell

A guitar-playing practice guide with hundreds of warm-up and technique-building exercises If you already play some guitar but need some practice, you're in the right place. Guitar Exercises For Dummies is a friendly guide that provides just enough need-to-know information about practicing scales, chords, and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques to help you maximize its 400+ exercises and improve your guitar playing. (If you need instruction on topics like buying or tuning a guitar and playing basic chords, check out Guitar For Dummies .) This practical book 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. Each section helps you to practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations, such as fingering options and hand positions, and then ends with a brief musical piece for you to try. You can also practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in your exercises, such The book wraps up with tips to help you maximize your practice time (like setting goals for each session), ways to improve your musicianship (such as studying other performers’ body language), and an appendix that explains the accompanying website (where you can find audio tracks and additional information). Grab your guitar, grab a copy of Gu itar Exercises For Dummies , and start perfecting your finger picking today. 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!

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, Reference

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2008

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
(8)music & verbal instruction
Phillips, Mark, 1947-
per Library of Congress website

Reviews

[Fabio · Rating 2 out of 5]

1-2-3-4
Stile non indimenticabile, qualche falla nella trama (come credere che 1-3-5 possa avere una relazione con 2-4-6?), discreta la caratterizzazione degli accordi protagonisti della quarta parte.

Suonare - una chitarra, in questo caso - implica una certa quantità di tempo dedicata a esercizi atti ad aumentare l'agilità, la scioltezza, la resistenza (etc. etc.). Una quantità di tempo ancora maggiore va riservata a scale, accordi, arpeggi. Storie di vita vera, certo. Ma ha ancora senso, nell'era della rete sempre e ovunque, un libro come questo (edito nel 2008)? Quando una ricerca anche superficiale permette di accedere a fantastiliardi di esercizi, spartiti, tablature, tutorial? Direi di no, soprattutto in considerazione del livello degli esercizi proposti, equamente divisi tra "ripetitività meccanica acefala" e "inutile scomodità delle diteggiature". E della mancanza di buona parte delle tecniche ormai diventate necessarie per lo wanna-be guitar hero: tecniche che necessitano esercizio. Molto esercizio. Ripetere. Molto esercizio.

Perché due stelle, dunque? Perché potrebbe servire, nel caso vi trovaste isolati dalla rete e sprovvisti della minima fantasia o memoria per inventare un qualche esercizio. E perché la sezione sugli accordi ha una (limitata) utilità.

Il tempo dedicato alla lettura, all'occasionale prova degli esercizi (mica tutti, troppo poco interessanti) e alla stesura di questo inutile commento avrebbe potuto essere impiegato per rispolverare un po' di sweep (i primi 18 secondi, a un quarto della velocità, magari -_-" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhUWY... )

[Scarlet Mitchell · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF
It was okay. Not sure I got a lot out of the exercises I tried.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

My rating is purely personal. The exercises are great and they authors give some great tips. But the exercises are also too small for me to see well and they become fuzzy when zoomed in. I like them, and I’ll keep practicing them, but I’ll have to get a paperback copy and iPad photograph the exercises so I can blow them up large enough to be visible to my poor eyes.