Guitar Lessons - Another warm up routine

Before playing and fast picking over your fretboard, warming up your muscle is very important.

It will help you to develop coordination and accuration. This warming up routine is called diagonal chord relay. Its have very simple pattern, but it's very effective and challenging too. It will help you prepare your guitar muscle before you shredding.

You can start everywhere on your fretboard, and do chord variation. Use strum mute switch strum mute switch approach. This technique will help you developing your control.

E ------------4--1--|-------4--1--------|
B ------4--1--3--2--|----4--3--2--1-----|
G 4--1--3--2--2--3--|-4--3--2--3--2--1--|
D 3--2--2--3--1--4--|-3--2--1--4--3--2--|
A 2--3--1--4--------|-2--1--------4--3--|
E 1--4--------------|-1--------------4--|

Guitar Lessons tools - Tux Guitar, Opensource Tablature Editor

There is a lot of guitar tablature software today. From just tab editor to complex guitar learning tools, but none of them is free and run on linux. When i heard about tuxguitar, i was surprised that it was free and opensource, and its run on linux too.

Tux Guitar have very complete feature, that set any competition with commercial guitar tab software. You will be able to compose music using :

- Tablature editor
- Score Viewer
- Multitrack display
- Autoscroll while playing
- Note duration management
- Various effect, like bend, slide, vibrato, hammer on, pull-off
- Repeat open and close
- Time signature management
- Tempo management

As you know, most guitar tab site offer their song tab in Guitar Pro format, TuxGuitar can open and export several popular format : Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, gp5, and Powertab .ptb file. Also it can export your tab to MIDI, ASCII, XML and even PDF.

If you playing guitar, and linux user too, then i recommend this Tuxguitar

Guitar Lessons - Chromatic Warm Up, First step to fingering accuracy

Here is another my favourite warm up routine before shredding the neck. Taken from Steve Vai guitar workout routine.

It will work wonders on your picking technique. Just like another guitar lessons, start slowly, and keep relax. Look at the detail, focus, keep your hands, wrist relax. Do it right,coordination first and then speed.

Use alternate picking, and starting from 1st fret. But you can start anywhere you like it with same pattern.

E -1-2---3-----4-----------|-------------------------|
B -----1---2-----3-----4---|-------------------------|
G -----------1-----2-----3-|-----4-------------------|
D -------------------1-----|-2-----3-----4-----------|
A -------------------------|---1-----2-----3---4-----|
E -------------------------|-----------1-----2---3-4-|

E -------------------------|-----------4-----3---2-1-|
B -------------------------|---4-----3-----2---1-----|
G -------------------4-----|-3-----2-----1-----------|
D -----------4-----3-----2-|-----1-------------------|
A -----4---3-----2-----1---|-------------------------|
E -4-3---2-----1-----------|-------------------------|

Guitar Lessons - Warm Up Excercise 3

Warm up excercise can helpful in many ways. Here another warm up routine, which is call "Diminished Chord Relay". I take this from Joe Satriani Guitar Secret. This warm up excercise is helpful for developing finger accuration on guitar playing.

Memorize finger position for all chord, then strumming it with strum-mute pattern. Make sure, it's clean and good sound. For variation, arpeggiate each chord, with alternate picking. Do #1 #2 #3 #4 pattern and then back to #3 #2 #1, and move one fret higher.

Have fun with your guitar lessons.

    #1    #2    #3    #4  
E -----|--3--|-----|--6--|-----
B -----|--2--|--5--|--5--|-----
G --3--|--3--|--3--|--6--|-----
D --2--|--2--|--5--|--5--|-----
A --4--|-----|--4--|-----|-----
E --3--|-----|-----|-----|-----

Guitar Lessons - Warm Up Excercise 2

After do chromatic warm up, for about 5 minutes, you can do finger stretching. This excercise is usefull too, for your finger, before walk over fretboard. The excercise is simple, but it's very effective for finger muscle stretching. Here is the tab :

E -1-5-------------------------------------1-5----
B -----1-5-----------------------------1-5--------
G ---------1-5---------------------1-5------------
D -------------1-5-------------1-5----------------
A -----------------1-5-----1-5--------------------
E ---------------------1-5------------------------

This excercise is written starting from 1st fret, but you can start anywhere on the fretboard. The rule is always add one more fret from your second finger position. In this example, 1st finger is used on 1st fret, 4th finger is used on 5th fret. The rule is Repeat, with combination of all finger. Here is the finger combination :

Finger 1 4 on Fret 1 5
Finger 1 3 on Fret 1 4
Finger 1 2 on Fret 1 3
Finger 2 4 on Fret 2 5
Finger 2 3 on Fret 2 4
Finger 3 4 on Fret 3 5

Have fun..

Guitar Lessons - Warm Up Excercise

Before you shredding fast over your fretboard, your finger should have any warm up first. It's very important step, before you play. Warming up your finger, can reduce repetitive stress injuries developing by your guitar playing excercise.

5-10 minutes is enough for warming up, before you play over fretboard. Here is warming up example tab, it's just chromatic scale. Always start with slow tempo, and gradualy increase your speed.

E -----------------------------------------1-2-3-4
B ---------------------------------1-2-3-4--------
G -------------------------1-2-3-4----------------
D -----------------1-2-3-4------------------------
A ---------1-2-3-4--------------------------------
E -1-2-3-4----------------------------------------

Mind map for learning guitar

One big problem when we learn guitar is to know, what we learn first. Most effective way to learn is learn all of that stuff and conquerer them to small part. I use this map to learn almost all of guitar playing aspect.



You can learn one subject by another without any order. You can learn scale this day, or just want warm up your finger, tommorow you can start with blues scale, arpeggio, chord, fretboard, riff, song, and any other. just choose what you want to learn.