Guitar Training Software

[Kerby Kolpack]

Finallymake sure you are doing all exercises with both of your hands. Regardless of whether you are looking to improve strength specifically for fretting hand or picking hand purposes, you need to keep a balance of strength between the two hands.

The Grip Master comes in different levels of tension. I eventually got to the point where I was using the light, medium, and heavy tension models for different exercises. However, I started off just using the light tension model. I used it for a few months before going up to the medium tension model. I then used it for a few months before switching to heavy tension.

For the first one, you hold the Grip Master in your hand, place the tips of your fingers on the keys, and press repeatedly with each finger. I would just do enough reps with a finger until that finger felt tired, and then move on to the next finger.

For each of the Grip Master exercises, I would focus on preventing movement in my other fingers. For example, if I was doing reps with my index/first finger, I would also try my best not to move or press down with any other fingers. This helps to exercise the finger you are working on more intensely, while also developing good finger independence.

To strengthen my thumb, I would turn the Grip Master around in my hand and press 2 keys at the same time with the thumb. Like the other exercises, I would do enough reps to where my thumb felt tired. While doing this, I was careful to make sure that I was pressing the keys down using only movement from my thumb, without extra movement coming from the fingers on the other side of the Grip Master.

The Grip Master exercises are good for developing the muscles on the underside of the hand that are used for squeezing or bringing your fingers down on the strings. I also wanted to develop the muscles on the other side of the hand that are used in raising the fingers. My own reason for this was to help with being able to finger pick more quickly, but it can also help with bends or trills with the fretting hand.

To work my index, middle, ring, and pinky finger, I would do the exercise shown in the photo below. I would loop 1 or more hair ties under my thumb and around the finger I was exercising. I then used my other hand to hold the hair tie in place on my thumb, and would extend my finger outward. I paid close attention to make sure my thumb was stationary while my other finger extended.

As long as you proceed with caution and restraint, strength training can be an excellent way to build a greater sense of ease into your guitar playing. Always beware of any pain you feel either during or after a strength training session. If you do feel even the slightest bit of pain, take a break from doing the exercises for however long it takes for the pain to go away.

Disclaimer: These guitar players are my top students. None of them practiced 8 hours per day, but they practiced more and worked much harder than the average person.

In the decades that followed, I refined my training to work for virtually everyone. And I taught 100s of guitar teachers how to train their students inside my Elite Guitar Teachers Inner Circle.

Plus, call it pride, vanity or ego if you want, but I want to be known as the best guitar teacher ever. (At least while I'm alive.) I want to be the teacher who turned more people into world-class guitar players than anyone else.

ALL Total Guitar Mastery Training Week attendees improved their guitar speed by 49.9%! For example, a person who was playing at 100 BPM on the metronome before coming to Total Guitar Mastery Training Week, was able to play at 149 BPM at the end of the event.

Disclaimer: these are (some of) my all-time best students who have been with me for many years. They worked MUCH HARDER than the average person. Most importantly, they were all very coachable and did everything I asked of them.

So you should plan to increase your practice time to an average of 60-120 minutes per day in the 2-3 months before the event. This prepares your mind (and your finger calluses) for long days of playing during your training.

Before we dive into playing, we'll start with some fundamental exercises for your picking and fretting hands to get you set up for success. Lastly, we'll work on coordinating your hands so you can play your first set of chords.

The typical guitar has six strings. In standard tuning, each string is tuned to a specific note, and we refer to that string by the note it plays when you pluck it without putting your hands on the fretboard. This is called an open-string note.

For more dexterity training, we have an article on finger exercises for beginner guitarists in our blog. Some may be too advanced for your very first guitar lesson, but others are great for absolute beginners.

When you are strumming open chords, you can either do an upstroke or a downstroke. A downstroke is the strumming motion when your hand moves across the strings in a downward motion towards the floor. The upstroke starts low and moves across the strings towards your chin.

When you strum, you want the main movement to come from your wrist. The rest of the arm should move to support the wrist movement when needed. Your arm should be relaxed and rest against the body of the guitar.

Play one bar of E minor, then change to one bar of A minor. One bar is equal to four beats. So you play four beats on each chord. Once you get comfortable playing the chords, add a third chord to the mix, then a fourth.

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Why Don't You Offer A "Normal" 30-Day Money-Back (Or Similar) Guarantee Like "Everyone Else"? Answer: Because I only want to work with ambitious guitar players. The ones who are DAMN SERIOUS about making a dent in their playing. Who are going to take my training and use it (even if just for 30 minutes a day), expecting some results.

If that's you - I bend over backwards to stand behind my product. I either help you get results, or I don't deserve your money. Thus - my uber-generous (albeit conditional) TRIPLE your money back guarantee.

If you are someone who likes to "check things out" but never implement or commit to anything - this training won't work for you anyway.

And if you were hoping to take a look at what's inside only to ask for a refund "within the 30-day window" (yes, there are many people like this) - I definitely don't want you "buying" anything from me.

1. You continue to practice everything you've already been practicing. The only thing that changes (and improves) is how you practice. This means you improve faster and master the music you want to play more quickly. This course is not guitar lessons. I won't throw new exercises at you that have nothing to do with the music you want to play.

2. You have LIVE access to me during guitar practice support hotline to ask me any questions you want about your guitar playing or practicing. This means you won't be alone and I'm there to help you if you get stuck.

"Before I began Rapid Fire Guitar Practice Training I was frustrated by my inability to play without mistakes in a consistent way. There was no way I could play in a reliable consistent way what ever I tried. Mikes strategies for this issue are simply outstanding. Practicing so I can play without tension has been absolutely revolutionary for my playing.

One of the issues I had problems with was sweep picking and Mike taught me the concepts of rest strokes which I had no idea of and that was really helpful for me and it really cleaned up a lot in my playing & sweep picking and my directional picking."

A few months back I found out about Mike, checked out his website and his videos. After watching him play and absorbing his learning philosophy it became clear that the learning path I had been on all those years was never going to make me the guitarist I knew I could be.

So I took the leap and invested in his monthly "sessions" as he calls them. So far I have been through 2 sessions and just starting the third. The results I have enjoyed over the last 2 months by just following his practice methods are easily beyond anything I could have accomplished just flailing around for a year or more on my own.

In the past I would play guitar, then in frustration I would stop, then start again, then stop. Progress was slow and there were frustrating setbacks. Today, after the success I've enjoyed, I can't imaging ever stopping again. Now my daily practice sessions are totally different. I plan my practices a week in advance. I know exactly what I am going to do each session and why. They are actually shorter, but much more focused than ever before. Best of all, it's more fun, because I am totally confident I will make continuous progress.

Every guitar player has technique challenges that are holding back their progress. Just a few simple stupid little things can totally undermine our potential. The power in Mike's approach is that he will show you exactly how to identify and fix those challenges, one by one. Fix just one or two of those challenges and your guitar adventures will change for the better, forever. Fix them all and just imagine how far you could go.

I cannot predict what future paths your guitar will lead you down, but as for me, I know for sure that my next 50 years of guitar will be a lot better than the last, thanks to Mike."

The course has helped me a lot to sharpen my awareness and to be able to dissect my technique much better. Becoming aware of what causes a problem in the first place is the starting point and its invaluable to have your eyes opened in that regard, because once you know all the tiny details that are going wrong, you can fix them."

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