The Guitar Finger Gym: Build stamina, coordination and dexterity on the guitar (Learn Rock Guitar Technique)
£12.30
Build and Master Essential Guitar Technique
- Do you want to improve your guitar technique to fluidly master your instrument?
- Are you tired of boring exercises?
- Are you looking for a creative, musical way to improve your guitar technique
- Do you want to learn hundreds of licks and tricks to make your guitar playing smoother and more engaging?
The Guitar Finger-Gym is a condensed and instant guitar technique ‘shot-in-the-arm’ for electric and acoustic guitarists of any level. It focuses on building a solid foundation of clean, usable guitar technique.
Learn the most important, effective exercises
Each guitar exercise is individually targeted to a common guitar technique problem. You will discover hundreds of musical guitar technique exercises that build your rhythm, strength, fluency and speed on the guitar
Solve every common guitar technique problem
Whether you play rock, jazz, blues or funk, or play electric or acoustic guitar all guitarists come across exactly the same pain points. Whether it’s picking intricate passages, smooth and fluid legato, rhythm and timing, or expressive techniques like bending… The Guitar Finger Gym has all the answers you need.
Come to the Guitar Finger-Gym to build your skills and develop your finesse!
Which guitar exercises will you learn?
Over 50 essential guitar technique exercises are included to help you build speed and fluency on the guitar, along with musical studies to consolidate your skills.
These exercises focus on musical drills to improve:
- Your Speed & Dexterity
- Your Coordination & Control
- Your Strength & Stamina
- Your Guitar Scale Sequences & Chords
The Guitar Finger Gym also includes:
- Standard Notation and Tab
- Bespoke, Timed Workouts and Practice Schedules
- Musical Pieces to Consolidate your Skills
Bonus Download free audio examples to play along with. Lock in with the tracks to ensure you’re learning guitar correctly
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by Vic Thornley
Although I do not class myself as a beginner I do confess to being a little lazy in my approach to developing further skills – until this book came along. At the grand old age of 57 I have picked up the guitar again and am taking a much better approach to develop even some basic techniques. My first book by Joseph is the ‘Fretboard fluency’ which I am still currently reading. I liked the simple laid out format and liked very much the free audio downloads to accompany it. On the strength of this book I found the ‘Guitar finger gym’ would be an ideal accompaniment to any of Joseph’s books. The exercises begin with the most basic technique of alternate picking of which I am guilty on being lazy with and then progress to more challenging exercises such as hammer on, pull offs, string skipping etc – and even throwing in a couple of ‘Joe Satriani’ style warm ups. The samples are clearly written with suggested tempo speeds and , again, have free downloadable audio accompaniments so you can hear exactly what is required. This book has taught me quite a lot in the short time of ownership in that its the first one I turn to before a session to warm up to. It has improved my techniques with the book mentioned goals of dexterity, strength, co-ordination and stamina. There is also one aspect I have grasped which is not quoted in the book and that is ‘discipline’. Even if you do not have any of Josephs other book, this is one book any guitarist should have – from complete beginner to advanced, quite simply – go buy it.
by Twenty1stCenturyreviewer
A book like this is not going to make you play like Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton but what it will do is enable you to markedly improve your playing whether you are experienced or a novice. If you practice these exercises regularly, you will soon see pleasing results. As always with drills, little and often is far better than one or two longer workouts per week. No matter how short your practice routine is, it’s worth finding 15 minutes per day going through this book. Simple and even if you are lazy you can get something out of it.
The exercises are suitable for electric or acoustic guitars. Staff and TAB are both provided and I recommend using a tablet to read (Kindle is good) as you can click on each example which makes it full screen and easy to read. The book starts with simple patterns but getting them up to speed is not something to rush. Next up are hammers and pull offs, which are thoroughly covered, followed by scale sequences which are useful to play in combination with the backing tracks provided.
If you make a note of your metronome speeds you can really see how you progress quickly and then you can play arpeggio patterns with string skips at high speed. A short (perhaps too short) list of rock songs is added at the end as something to aim for but it’s likely you already have a good idea of the riffs you’d like to play by this stage and there are plenty of sites online where you can get sheet music or TABS. There are also sample workouts; this could be a valuable resource for some people. Finally an exhaustive appendix lists common scale and arpeggio shapes, very useful!
The price of this book is a bargain in itself but to sweeten the deal even further, they have audio examples of all the exercises available at a website free of charge (link provided in book). All in all, highly recommended.
by chano
Simple, well written, to the point and practically useful. It got my ageing fingers dancing (sort of) over the fretboard.
by Bev
Ok if you’ve got discipline & dexterity – My arthritis allows me neither & I had a hard time smiling when I said thanks to the person who bought me this as a gift. If you are a Keen guitarist it could help.
by slawek
Beginner knocking to lower intermediate here.
I tried to warm-up, stretch or work on other aspects of fretting or picking using practices found here and there or invited by myself but none of this works as good as method and exercises found in this book.
Gym is always a gym only – blood, sweat and tears but Finger Gym… don’t know how Author made it – is really interesting, a bit addicting and fun.
Difficulty progresses gradually, every exercise is well explained and in no time I observed development in many aspects of my playing.
Whats very important for me – access to audio files (which itself are excellent) is very easy and once downloaded and uploaded to Cloud are accessible at any given moment, at any place.
Really can’t praise and recommend this book enough for person on my level.
Print and overall quality is very good. However the cover feels and looks somehow cheap.
Delivery was obviously perfect in every aspect (as for time of lockedown).
by kristina
I am taking a time to write this because I want any beginner (or whoever else) considering the purchase of this book to not be mislead by the above mentioned person’s review who said this book is too advanced for a beginner.
I am a complete guitar beginner, but I first tried my hand on the bass (a few months ago), so I purchased ‘BassTechnique Finger Gym’. Just like then, and now with a classical guitar and the ‘The Guitar Finger Gym’ I find the material extremely useful. If the suggested tempo is too fast, then do the obvious thing- play it slower. As many times as you need it until you build it up. The variety of exercises offered inside do what it says on the book- it teaches flexibility, strength and dexterity. To be honest, I’m not sure what else I would be capable of playing if not this. As a beginner I find this invaluable and as a beginner of course I find it (and found it) difficult: to stretch my fingers, to keep it firm and not zingy and awkward and whatever else. It is not supposed to be any different. If it was easy without practice everyone out there would be a guitarist.
These are great lessons and great study material. If I stay up with my instrument I am going to use this as long as I play the guitar. Over time it only gets more challenging as you build the speed and really, you do learn new things. This is a practice book, beginner and otherwise. A professional pianists never stops practising their scales.
Good luck.