If you’re just getting started playing guitar or if you’ve been playing for a little while and wish you were a little faster or a cleaner player, check out these exercises to get your fingers in shape.

These exercises are designed to use all your fingers to develop a balanced strategy to get you playing better!

Play these everyday at least 20 times each.

It won’t take as long as you think.

Also, use a metronome when you feel comfortable and every note is clean.

These exercises are written on the 1st string, however you’ll want to practice these on all six strings.

For demonstration purposes I’m playing these exercises in 7th position.

Play these exercises in all positions and on all strings.

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These six exercises aren’t going to hit the top 40 charts anytime soon, therefore it’s important to mix these up and be as creative as you can.

You can also try creating your own exercises from these and mix them in to get something totally different!

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This course gives you the techniques you need to double, triple or quadruple your guitar playing speed. The course has 83 audio and video clips plus tabs for each exercise.

We have taken it one step further and for most examples given you a slow version and full speed version so you can see exactly what is being shown.