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Post by TKennedy on Jan 23, 2023 22:58:32 GMT -5
I found this on Youtube a couple of weeks ago and the exercises are great. I am only doing the first several patterns but I have noticed a difference already. Better than anything else I have done for finger control. Check it out.
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Post by PaulKay on Jan 24, 2023 10:24:11 GMT -5
Interesting. I actually did a very similar thing when I was in college. Only I would do the exercises with my picking hand, not the fretting hand.
The idea was to get my fingers to move independently.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Jan 24, 2023 11:26:50 GMT -5
His ring finger is about 15 inches long!
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 24, 2023 12:14:32 GMT -5
As a left-hand routine, those would seem to be aimed at linear soloing--not unlike, say, scale and arpeggio exercises. They also struck me as the sort of thing pianists would use. This came to me while watching Barry Harris's hands in a jazz workshop that starts with an examination of "Stella by Starlight." (The video is also really interesting to listen to--Harris's ear is as amazing as his hands.)
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 24, 2023 13:28:12 GMT -5
His ring finger is about 15 inches long! One of the YouTube comments was “alien fingers” |
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Post by howard lee on Jan 24, 2023 21:39:46 GMT -5
I got your finger exercises, right here:
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Post by Dub on Jan 25, 2023 0:59:34 GMT -5
I found this on Youtube a couple of weeks ago and the exercises are great. I am only doing the first several patterns but I have noticed a difference already. Better than anything else I have done for finger control. Check it out. Very nice exercise, Terry. Thanks. It's going into my library. Here's a link to a string of good exercise videos I've saved. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu3urSQQjonjX5H2ob3Vat9_N2MDEi3k5And here's a PDF I made with a couple of exercises I use. These are for flat picking using consistent up and down picking. They expect you to use one and only one noting-hand finger per fret. The first line is just an A major scale in two octaves. The second is three lines long but will be a Joy to play. Guitar Exercises.pdf (35.56 KB) |
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 25, 2023 1:41:25 GMT -5
Googling around on him, I discovered that there's also a fellow named Harry Barris--who supposedly made some of the earliest scat recordings (which I couldn't find), also in a group with bing crosby. |
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