Want to learn guitar

Neapolitan · 04-06-2010, 12:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littleknowitall

When you get that adapt it and try to build on your hands co-ordination. Different patterns work very well at both improving your finger strength and picking such as in the previous exercises but also on your fingers co-ordination being something you don't have to think about.

|------------------------------------2---4--------------|
|----------------------------2---4-1---3----------------|
|--------------------2---4-1---3------------------------|
|------------2---4-1---3--------------------------------|
|----2---4-1---3----------------------------------------|
|--1---3------------------------------------------------|

Stuff like that and then moved up and reversed etc.Just be creative. I could write lots and lots more but I've been up all night with a bug and I really am too tired to write out lots and lots of this ****. But I hope to the extent it can that these exercises help.

With finger exercises there are 24 permutations
1234 2134 3124 4123
1243 2143 3142 4132
1324 2314 3214 4213
1342 2341 3241 4231
1423 2413 3412 4312
1432 2431 3421 4321

After doing them all I decide to do them on two strings, I like to do your last exercises but I invert the pattern which is the blue exercise. After doing them on two string I decided to skip a string which is the green exercise. The last one is my favorite. I saw video of Buckethead, it was hard to understnad him but he did this thing that sounded like a computer, it was almost impossible to understand him, but I got the jist of what he said. He mentioned this episode of the "Bionic Man" where he said Steve Austin had a cyborg double and at one point the face mask was ripped off and behind the mask was a computer and it made this computer music. I have literally no idea how Buckethead did it, but just by experimenting with finger exercises I got something that reminds me of a computer.

|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|------2-----4--|--1------3-----|
|-----2-----4--|--1-----3-----|---1------3----|------2-----4--|
|--1-----3-----|-----2-----4--|---------------|---------------|

|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|------2-----4--|--1------3-----|
|-----2-----4--|--1-----3-----|---1------3----|------2-----4--|
|--1-----3-----|-----2-----4--|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|

|--------------|--------------|------2-----4--|--1------3-----|
|-----2-----4--|--1-----3-----|---1------3----|------2-----4--|
|--1-----3-----|-----2-----4--|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|

then I skip a string

|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|------2-----4--|--1------3-----|
|-----2-----4--|--1-----3-----|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|--1------3-----|------2-----4--|
|--1-----3-----|-----2-----4--|---------------|---------------|

|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|------2-----4--|--1------3-----|
|-----2-----4--|--1-----3-----|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|--1------3-----|------2-----4--|
|--1-----3-----|-----2-----4--|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|

|--------------|--------------|------2-----4--|--1------3-----|
|-----2-----4--|--1-----3-----|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|--1------3-----|------2-----4--|
|--1-----3-----|-----2-----4--|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|
|--------------|--------------|---------------|---------------|

Neapolitan's version of Buckethead doing Steve Austin's cyborg double mask being ripped off.

|-----14--13------|--12----------15--|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|------14--13------|--12----------15-|
|-12----------15--|------14--13------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|--12----------15--|------14--13-----|
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|

|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----14--13------|--12----------15--|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|------14--13------|--12----------15-|
|-12----------15--|------14--13------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|--12----------15--|------14--13-----|
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|

|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----14--13------|--12----------15--|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|------14--13------|--12----------15-|
|-12----------15--|------14--13------|------------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------------|--12----------15--|------14--13-----|