Top 5 Exercises for Classical Guitarists
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:38 Exercise #1- Left hand independence taught to me by @pavelsteidl596
2:02 Exercise #1 Explanation & Sheet music
5:07 Exercise #2 – Right hand independence taught to me by @aniellodesiderio7676
6:01 Exercise #2 Explanation & Sheet music
8:43 Exercise #3 – Left Hand exercise taught to me by @reneizquierdo
9:33 Exercise #3 – Explanation & Sheet music
11:28 About this video’s sponsor – @tonebase
13:01 Exercise #4 – Buzzing!
14:37 Exercise #4 Explanation & Sheet music
15:54 Exercise #5 Left and Right hand coordination taught to me by Bruce Holzman
16:24 Exercise #5 – Explanation & Sheet music
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can you give advice for jumping from one fret to another, especially chord jumping
Etude No. 1 is such an amazing study for right hand and barre development.
Great video man ????????????????
Hi Evan., can you show us, the Exercice for right hand, speed whit apoiando?
¡Muchísimas gracias! ¡Salud y mucha música! Saludos desde las Islas Canarias. ????
GREAT lesson, thank you very much.
What guitar are you playing?
From my personal experience… I fret harder than necessary due to lack of flexibility and from less optimal hand physiology..E.g. My as I curl my m and a fingers toward the fretboard, they maintain a good gap except at the end – my fingers come together at the tips. I have often tried to just hold a wide left stretch like some kind of finger yoga pose.
These are nice exercises except the buzzing exercise. My opinion is if you practice buzzes you just practice buzzes which must be wrong. There are other exercise to reduce left hand pressure.????
This is SO awesome!
Excellent video and lesson. Thank you.
Oh yeah, I had one of these self-absorbed teachers. Talking a lot f what they do and what they teach and what …. but at the end of a 30 Minute lesson, there was 20 Minutes blabla. It's hard to find someone on the internet, that is focussed on the point what to teach. I found one and my progress increased 300% in 2 Months. Professional at the end. No Internet self absorbing actor.
Interesting! Going to try these , And well explained! I like your humility in terms of acknowledging great players when you are yourself a extremely good player !
I try to make little exercise s out of my repertoire if I can but I could spend 15 mins a day on these I think
I have playing classical guitar for many years reaching an advanced level. However I find these first exercises impossible.
Excellent exercises for left hand fingers independence.
Thank you Evan!
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The practices look good ones but sadly the presentation may need massive improvement… it is a pity.
thank you very much for sharing these nice exercises! The last one i already know from my teacher, he calls it "telephone digits" and he does it with climbing up the strings as well
All this talk about touching and squeezing, now my panties are soaked, thanks for the lesson!
Really nice!!!! Thank you very much!
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Thanks for the exercises! I’ll add them to my routine????????
That first exercise is amazing. It also showed me that one of my picking fingers is weaker than the others, resulting in a much quieter note attack. I was not aware of this
Can you please also do a set of exercises that focus on the right/plucking hand ?
I’m especially looking for exercises that learn to prevent the nails of my right hand accidentally touching the adjacent string when plucking a note. Since I can’t grow my nails, it seems to happen more quickly because the fingers have to dig in deeper through the strings to pluck a note.
What a great set of exercises ! Thanks ! ????????
Thank you for sharing this info. ????????
This will be very useful. I've listened once through, but made note of it so I can come back to it next week. Good clear points. Thank you
check out guitarist hands by John Dwarte
My problem is: How to manage the right hand without a pick?. What is the normal digitation in the right hand for exercises where you have to go chromatically on strings. Please help meee
Yeah I see your fingers shaking like an incoming earthquake imagine what us Mortals are going to struggle with lolollol!!!!
Amazing content!
Evan, what is that black clip at the top of your headstock, above the g string tuner? I’ve seen this in guitars for other players, too.
Is there a time limit you recommend doing these exercises? E.g. I used to play the flute and Marcel Moyse's sound exercises ("De la Sonorité") shouldn't be played more than twenty or thirty minutes at a time otherwise you risk learning the wrong way due to fatigue. Is there a similar rule for specific guitar exercises? I subscribed because your explanations are really really wonderful.
Awesome examples! I'll definitely have to try the 4 of them out. I personally do not like the buzzing exercise. From my own experience, I've realized the buzzing exercise is moreso an example than an exercise. It shows us what is possible in understanding the pressure we put on the fretboard with the left hand, but I don't believe in practicing this buzzing, or using it as a warm up for your repertoire if such that this exercise actually causes more buzzing in a player's technique. And this drilling of an exercise is exactly why I don't encourage it for anyone. I believe the guitarist can learn to relax the hand without this exercise and practicing "not enough pressure" as a technique. Think about the fact that the exercise itself has a learning curve to achieve buzzing on all notes of the exercise. It's absolutely nonsense, if I may say so myself. Ironically it's the most popular exercise, and I just don't believe it should be an exercise. Anyways, that's just my two cents on that and the negative experience I had with that exercise. It serves to get a point across, but I don't believe achieving a buzz sound should be our goal in any practice or warm up.
Exercise #2 is actually in the song conquer or die
I just simple Love your video, thanks for share those tips and excercises. ❤????
Nice
It was very helpful Thank you. What's the name of Exercise #2?
Exercise 3 is gorgeous. I'm glad I saw this. Thank you.
i totally get the third exercise????????????… who else doesn't
For those of us that work 9 hr days, and have maybe 15 hours of practice a week or 2 hours per day, what percentage of time should we spend on these exercises?
I have to say not only is exercise 1 so friggin GD useful for finger strength, but it also strengthens your "silent finger" technique of not going all "satellite" pinky… something myself (and many other top rock guitarists like EVH) suffer from.
Regarding the first exercise you mention. There is a book by John Duarte and Luis Zea called the Guitarist's Hands that actually provides a multitude of shapes and positions to focus on this aspect of finger independence, not just that basic shape. It is a very powerful concept imho.
play the chromatic octaves up and down; play them broken; play with 3 finger tremolo; 4 finger (flamenco) tremolo; play up-down-up-up pattern: E F E F Gb F Gb G Gb G Ab… then in the opposite direction, together, broken, 3/4 finger tremolo. one of Sagreras' books has a great octave study as well as studies in 6ths, 3rds and 10ths, all great for dexterity. I recommend to learn them in that order and leave the octaves for last
The first exercise from Pavel Steidl addresses a problem many guitarists have, which is that they tend to press down more than one finger of their left hand when only one should be pressed. Pressing two fingers down when only one is needed is a wasted motion. Also, the finger that should not be pressed may need to cross over to another string immediately afterwards. This move to another string will be easier to execute if you don’t have the finger pressed down on the fretboard.
Aaron Shearer had a book of exercises just like this.
Awesome! Love it! ????