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Speed, Accuracy And Coordination

Great exercises to keep your hands in shape from Mike Campese.

by Mike Campese October-November 2008 · Guitar Technique · Guest Columnists

Welcome back! In this lesson I will be showing you some great exercises to help you with your speed, accuracy and right and left hand coordination. If you would like to keep your fingers in shape these are great exercises to practice.

Before a gig, or when I first pick up my guitar, I always go through these to get warmed up. Be sure to start off slowly and then increase your speed.

On the PDF lesson, I gave you a complete list of all 24 permutations your left hand can move, so if you master these you can play just about anything. It would be a great idea to hang this up on your wall as a reference until you memorize all 24. Once you figure out the mathematics behind this, you will easily memorize it.

Technique examples; Click to access PDF file

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Mike Campese

Mike Campese is an all-around music performer, session artist and teacher competent in many musical styles, electric and acoustic. He has studied at G.I.T. (Honors Graduate), and with Paul Gilbert, Norman Brown, Stanley Jordan, Scott Henderson and Keith Wyatt.

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