Courses

Dexterity

Goal
Daily drills for finger strength, accuracy, and independence.
Time
38 min

Steps

  • The chromatic warmup
  • Hammer-ons and pull-offs
  • Finger independence

Dexterity

  • Three drills, a few minutes each, at the start of every session.
  • Chromatic warmup, hammer-ons and pull-offs, finger permutations.
  • All run on a metronome: clean before fast, tempo logged.

You need

  • A guitar and a metronome (every exercise page has one).
  • The practice routine from Orientation.

Exercises

  1. 00 · 3 minInterviewTell your tutor what you know about this topic and what you want from it.
  2. 01 · 15 minThe chromatic warmupPlay one finger per fret across all six strings, clean at 60 BPM.
  3. 02 · 15 minHammer-ons and pull-offsSound notes with the fretting hand alone: hammer-ons and pull-offs.
  4. 03 · 5 min/dayFinger independenceDrill all 24 finger orderings, a few a day, to a timer.