Remember these will animate at different speeds depending on your computer
set-up. At first watch them and just get your fingers doing the moves.
I use these types of exercises waiting in traffic. This is a forward roll. It needs to be learned before you can
learn the next movement. Concentrate on your right hand and play
it smooth. It's set to loop forever. Its is played in the eight position. After you learn the forward roll you can then learn to put a
half step slide on each finger to create new moves. The three
moves of a forward roll plus a slide give you four notes. These
can be 8th notes, quarter notes, 16th notes, etc. If you have
problems learn them separately and then put them together. This is the forward roll with a slide after the thumb going up
the neck. You should continue up the neck to get repetitions and
to get your bar hand used to going up to the high frets. Here's a crude animation showing the left hand sliding from fret
3 to fret 8. I'm working on making these more efficient. This is an alternating exercise that I do. This is slow speed.
It is set to loop ten times. It alternates the thumb with each
finger, then then first finger with each finger, then the second
finger with each finger and finally the third finger with each
finger. If they stop press reload to start them all again. This is the above exercise done at a faster speed. Don't try
this one until you can play the entire exercise at the speed above.
Imagine what can happen when you utilize the A, B & E pedals and
levers! These are C triads played at the third fret with AB down. This
makes the right hand move from position to position. If you have
trouble playing them at first low them down and play multiple
hits of each. Play each position three or four times then move
to the next. The next time do it twice at each position. Then
try it once at each position. You can trick your hand into doing
it by working from four, three, two and one at a time. The colors
are accenting what pedals are being activated. A pedal shows 5
& 10 blue. B pedal shows 3 & 6 yellow. These are C triads played at the eigth frets with no pedals.
The right hand is playing the same movements. |