Robin Jones - Daily Routine - Left and right hand practice

 Robin Jones talks about exercises that might help you to get better. Even if you think you know a lot of exercises you might find something new here. So you really have a look at this.

To help me remember the exercises better and look them up whenever I need to, I sat down today and wrote them out in tablature format. You can download this as a PDF here.

The Spider Walk - Finger Exercise

 Finger Practice exercises are a fantastic way to strengthen your fingers. It might be a good idea to do them in your daily practice session.

 

Some time ago I already posted a video about the Spider Walk. This is a good finger practice. But there are many different exercises which go with this name.

This is the video I posted already, it's from creativeguitarstudio:

This is what to do:

• First place your fingers on the G string: index finger on the 5th fret, middle finger in the 6th fret, ring finger 7th fret, little finger 8th fret.
• Now take the index finger and place it on the D-string in the 5th fret. Leave all the other fingers!
• Now place the middle finger on the D-string in the 6th fret. Then place the ring finger on the D-string in the 7th fret.
• Finally, place the little finger on the D-string in the 8th fret.
• It is important that all the other fingers always remain in their position.
• Now run from one string to the next and back again.
• First do this exercise without striking with the right hand. Then do it with the right hand.

Here's a tab I made:

Here is a video with some more Spider Walk exercises by Las Vegas Guitar:

Essential Hand Stretches For Guitarists or Any Instrumentalist

Some tipps from GuitarLessons365

Lenghten your fingers

An exercise by Brett Ridgeway that might help to lengthen your fingers. I think it's also an exercise to warm up your fingers.

Fingertraining exercises

This post is in German, but I think it is easy to understand. Some exercises to warm up your fingers. It is always a good idea to warm up fingers before playing. But oftentimes I forget to do it because I just want to play ;-)

Finger practice in G and D

Oh, my brain, where did I find this idea on the web? Can't remember. The idea is to exercise the scale of G and D. These are 3, or exactly 2 exercises for G and D.

You have to do the exercise once forward and then backwards. I only wrote the forward part of it.

Finger Practice - Spider walk

What an exercise. My goal for the coming weeks. Everyday for a few minutes. The Video is made for guitar, but it can be exercised on bouzouki as well. Seems my ring finger needs a lot of practice.

More finger practice

Some more finger practice I found somewhere.

First an easy one, but watch your ring finger:

Take care of the rhythm And where to change finger positions

Easy one. Leave the first finger always on fretboard

This one is a bit harder. Maybe practice one bar after another

Finger warmups for Mandolin and Bouzouki - Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien speaks about Mandolin Warmup Exercises. What works on mandolin must work on bouzouki also. So have a look at it and decide for yourselves.

By the way, some years ago Tim produced a DVD where he explains some of his techniques on Mandolin and Bouzouki. If you don't know it already have a look at it. You can order it from his website:

https://timobrien.net/video-dvd/mandolin-and-bouzouki-dvd




I tried to translate this concept to bouzouki in G-Major. It would look like this:

In D it could look like this, first D chords from D-string on, second line D chords inversed from G-string on:

Here are some short videos as introduction to his DVD:

Exercise: Coordination of both hands 2

Another exercise for coordination of both hands. If you download the photo of the tab it will appear larger.

This exercise is in D-Major.
You will also practice in D-Minor which would be
0,2,3,5 on the D string and
0,1,3,5 on the A string.

If you'd like to practice in D-Mixolydian it would be
0,2,4,5 on the D string and
0,2,3,5 on the A string.


If you don't know which notes you are you can learn them by saying them while practicing.

in D-Major it is
D,E,F#,G
A,B,C#,D

in D-Minor:
D,E,F,G
A,Bb,C,D

in D-Mix:
D,E,F#,G
A,B,C,D