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== Fingering Exercises ==
These exercises take a common fretting pattern for 2 left hand fingers and repeat across all pairs of strings. Exercises 1-4 use adjacent pairs of strings, while 5-8 use pairs of strings separated by a unused string between them.
This exercise is designed to help the quality of your left-hand fretting, the accuracy of your right hand picking (picking the correct string), and the synchronization between both hands. It should also help to train your left-hand to make more complex inter-finger movements.
As a beginner player, you may want to start these exercises using only down-picking. Once you are more comfortable with left-hand fretting and finding the right string with the right hand, switch to strict alternate picking, even as you cross or jump strings.
=== Index and Middle ===
Here's another one focusing on the index finger and pinky. Be sure to keep the index finger fretted at all times forcing you to stretch rather than bouncing back and forth.
-17-12--16-11--15-10-...-10-5---9--4---8--3-- p i p i p i p i p i p i
This follows the same premise of getting more and more difficult as you descend, but is focused on more traditional stretches. The same guidelines apply as above.
You can do this exercise by playing each pattern once on all the strings before moving onto the next, or you can run through the entire set on each string before moving to the next.
{|
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| <pre>--1-2-3-4-- </pre> || <pre>--2-1-3-4-- </pre> || <pre>--3-1-2-4-- </pre> || <pre>--4-1-2-3--</pre>
|-
| <pre>--1-2-4-3-- </pre> || <pre>--2-1-4-3-- </pre> || <pre>--3-1-4-2-- </pre> || <pre>--4-1-3-2--</pre>
|-
| <pre>--1-3-2-4-- </pre> || <pre>--2-3-1-4-- </pre> || <pre>--3-2-1-4-- </pre> || <pre>--4-2-1-3--</pre>
|-
| <pre>--1-3-4-2-- </pre> || <pre>--2-3-4-1-- </pre> || <pre>--3-2-4-1-- </pre> || <pre>--4-2-3-1--</pre>
|-
| <pre>--1-4-2-3-- </pre> || <pre>--2-4-1-3-- </pre> || <pre>--3-4-1-2-- </pre> || <pre>--4-3-1-2--</pre>
|-
| <pre>--1-4-3-2-- </pre> || <pre>--2-4-3-1-- </pre> || <pre>--3-4-2-1-- </pre> || <pre>--4-3-2-1--</pre>
|}
[[Category:Guitar]]
[[Category:Exercises]]
[[Category:Technique]]
