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Beginner Guitar Lessons – Finger Dexterity Exercise
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This is so much harder than it looks, I’m making some progress but I have to look at my right hand and coming back up the strings is really difficult, I’m just focusing on going down for now.
Started playing today.
thats awesome! i just got my guitar. so ill be practicing this a lot
thanks dog
What weird is i can play songs i just dont no the chords…..
yay my pinky is getting stronger…no body taught me this ive been taking lessons form one of my friends and ive never seen the exercise so this was really helpful
This is great man. Thanks! I’ll practice this tonight!
how did you start without throwing your guitar threw a window :@
This is just the sort of thing I’m looking for…
Thanks for this
I’ll practice this exercise more often
thanks for the video, but I can’t seem to keep my finger froms hitting the string underneath no matter how hard I try. is this just something that beginners experience?
when were practicing the technique are we supposed to look at our picking hand if we keep on missing the string
I am going to buy a Washburn d100dl 6 string acoustic for my self for x-mas and this is the perfect first video for me to get started. I played around with the washburn at guitar center here in Dallas and loved it. I don’t know diddly about guitar but have found some great vids on here with simple 3-5 chord songs that I would love to learn. I would love to be able to play Whore House blues by Motorhead that was done in the video. So thank you for taking the time to make this video. This helps.
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@Guitar101Ramstein
As a Beginner, I say: THANKS for your time and the foolproof explanation. I’ll sure make your exercise become the basis for my efforts in o rder to master the guitar. As for the results: I’ll be back in a few weeks with the feedback
Thanks again!…..
hey i wanna learn how to play the gutiar but i just never even played it before i got an electric gutiar that i got from doing a tattoo but its like a little bit shorter than the normal ones n it only has a volume knob and not a wamy bar but i think its still good to learn with it or is it nesessary i get a bigger one?
getting ready to start playing guitar…need help finding a good beginner guitar…any advice would be great, and i think my hands are too small, but idk..
advice would be great, thank you.
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The hardest part of this for me is keeping my pinkie from lifting off the frets. All my other fingers are fine, but the pinkie won’t stay put. ><;
is it even possible to do it with small hands?
i can’t stretch my fingers far enough!
i have an eleca btw but ordered an encore for xmas.
Thank You for this. It has helped my greatly!
someone told me to tight a robber band around my fingers while doing this kinda exercise… so i can improve the speed speed… i think its somehow true coz it works with me…
Im a beginner, and findin it slightly hard but i know if i keep practicing i’ll get it.. every comment i see here are complaints.. my hands are too small, i cant bla bla….. just do it and practice and eventullay u’ll get it..!!
@GOFCYUSLF166 That is defeating the purpose of playing through it backwards.