Guitar Aerobics
Rosella Bowlan
From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying online audio includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.
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Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique by Troy Nelson is a book with a clear goal: help you improve your guitar skills by using planned out exercises.
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There are 365 exercises in total which means for a full year you learn a new exercise/lick every day. The licks gradually increase in difficulty to constantly push your abilities to higher levels. Each lick is displayed in Guitar TAB and standard notation with a brief explanation (there is a guitar TAB reference chart at the back of the book).
There are two CDs included with the book. CD1 provides examples of all 365 licks so you can hear what they should sound like. CD2 provides drum tracks so you can move on from the metronome and play the licks in a real musical context in suitable styles.
Every day of the week follows a pattern to focus on specific techniques. The seven main categories of licks are: Alternate picking, String skipping, String bending, Arpeggios, Sweep picking, Legato and Rhythm. This predictable pattern makes it easy to follow the program as you will know what to expect every day (eg: string bending on Wednesday).
You need to already know how to play the techniques (at least to a basic level) before starting the Guitar Aerobics program. I recommend waiting until you have been learning guitar for at least a year before looking into this book. Start with a guitar method book along with a guitar teacher then get this book down the track after you have covered the basics.
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Scales are the backbone of guitar music, providing the framework for solos, improvisation, and much more. "Guitar Aerobics Advanced" dives deep into various scales, from major and minor to exotic modes. Understanding scales helps in developing speed, accuracy, and improvisational skills. This segment of the course will not only improve your fluency across the fretboard but also enhance your ability to create and interpret music dynamically.
Arpeggios allow guitarists to outline chord tones melodically, making them essential for lead guitarists. Our lessons on arpeggios cover everything from simple triadic forms to complex seventh and extended chords. Learning arpeggios increases your ability to play over changes and provides a melodic foundation that can be used in both rhythm and lead contexts. These lessons are designed to develop your picking accuracy and fretboard visualization.
String bending is a pivotal technique that adds emotion and expression to your playing. In "Guitar Aerobics Advanced," you will learn various bending techniques including bluesy bends and unison bends, which can significantly enhance your musical expression. Bending, when done correctly, can emulate the human voice, adding a vocal-like quality to your guitar playing.
Sequences are repetitive patterns that can be applied to scales, arpeggios, or melodies. This course section focuses on developing finger independence and timing through the use of sequences. Practicing sequences helps in building speed and dexterity, making complex solos and riffs more manageable and musically appealing.
Efficient picking is fundamental for playing guitar at an advanced level. "Guitar Aerobics Advanced" includes extensive exercises on alternate picking, sweep picking, and tremolo picking. These exercises are designed to improve your picking precision and speed, ensuring that you can tackle fast passages with ease and confidence.
Guitar playing can be physically demanding, especially at an advanced level. This course includes stretching exercises tailored for guitarists to enhance flexibility, reduce injury risk, and improve overall endurance. These exercises are crucial for maintaining hand health and ensuring longevity in your playing career.
Through "Guitar Aerobics Advanced," Licklibrary.com aims to provide an enriching learning experience that pushes the boundaries of your guitar skills. Each lesson is crafted to challenge and inspire, propelling you towards guitar mastery. Join us to unlock your potential and bring your guitar playing to unprecedented levels!
From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving & Maintaining Guitar Technique is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned.
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"You have to yelp," say Tamsyn, who has spiky blond hair and is wearing a rug around her waist. "Nyyip," she says sounding like a mating peacock. I suddenly feel far too middle class to yelp, at least in public. "Humm," I say, as a compromise. Then Tamsyn goes galloping cross the floor, flapping her skirt. And yelping. I follow, flapping my skirt and not.
The can-can class is just one of the classes put on by the International Workshop Festival, an organisation based in South London which aims to get people interested in the sorts of dance they might not otherwise have a chance to, especially some of the more esoteric varieties, such as Bollywood dancing, podium dancing and nipple-tassel twirling.
Exercise is one benefit they believe that such classes can bring to people; but there are others which are considered equally beneficial, such as making people feel confident and happier in themselves through doing things that they might not otherwise do.
Alternative forms of exercises have been gathering momentum in recent years. Popularised by Kylie and her "Spinning Around" video, pole dancing has acquired something of a cult and it has been followed up by lap-dancing, and for the men, air-guitar aerobics. Increasingly people seem unwilling to join the hordes of what Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, calls the "pleasure-hating lunatics who appear to enjoy going to the gym", and are taking a more holistic attitude to exercise in which the mind and the body are equally benefited.
"We put on pole-dancing classes last year," says Kathy Everett, who helps to organise the festival. "It was a huge success - it sold out overnight and we had to lay on more classes." She hopes nipple-tassel twirling will prove an equal hit. "It is not so energetic," she says. "But it is good for confidence - and for self-expression." Men are also welcome to join some of the classes. "You can still get the movement going without - how shall I put it - the leverage," she explains.
Tamsyn, our can-can instructor, used to dance the can-can professionally - "with the feathers and everything". She used to do the splits too - though she says that they won't be necessary for this evening.
In our class there are six of us - five women and one rather willowy man called Andy. "Are you going to do the class too?" she asks him. He looks doubtful. "I don't know - what do you think?" Needless to say she thinks he should.
The can-can is - always has been - extremely energetic. As Guy de Maupassant described it: "The women... appeared to have double-jointed legs and hips. They leapt about in a frou-frou of lifted skirts flashing their knickers and kicking their legs up over their heads with amazing agility." We haven't got the skirts and knickers - we are making do with sarongs, rugs and scarves - but we are certainly leaping about. "The can-can is very physical,"says Kathy. "It can get quite gymnastic."
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