A 4 Note Chromatic Guitar Exercise

Series Summary

One of the most popular instruments today is the guitar. It is a beautifully sounding and very versatile instrument that can be played in any style and at any volume. Another very popular instrument that is just as versatile if not more so is the human voice. Many people today who choose to learn one of these instruments often choose to learn the other relatively soon after. Depending of the musical part you are playing it is relatively easy to sing and play the guitar so people gravitate to it quickly. There are many things one must learn with each instrument though in order to play and sing at the same time or to be good at one or the other.

In this free video clip series our expert, Brian Hudson, with explain a few basic yet important details on both the voice and the guitar so that you will be able to not only play the guitar well and sing well but so that you can do them both together. Learn how to increase your vocal range and some exercises you can do to strengthen your voice. Also learn how to tune your guitar by ear and several fingering techniques to increase your knowledge of the fretboard and hand coordination. Take a gander at these videos and you'll be writing songs in no time.

Video Transcript

"OKay, so I'm going to play, I'm going to do a finger exercise that involves playing four notes per string and then moving to the next string. So, it's like this. (audio demo) Then when I get to the top, I'm going to move up a fret and come back down. (audio demo) I'm going to do that all the way up to the twelfth fret, when my pinkie hits the twelfth fret, then I'll turn around and start coming back down. I highly recommend using a metronome and playing things as quickly as you can play them, but then also make sure to practice things really slowly. Because time is really important in music and a metronome just helps you practice time passively. I'm going to play it quickly for the sake of the exercise so I can go up and down quickly. This is one eighty four. One, two, one, two, three, four. (audio demo) Then when I get to the twelfth fret, I'm going to go, and come back down until I get all the way to the bottom."