To the woodshed.
Exercises are great for development and can be fun. No, they won’t sound very good, but you can challenge yourself by seeing how clean and how quickly you can play the exercise.
Good technique can be very helpful in working out the kinks in clumsy fingers and developing your calluses.
Easy to Learn.
Most exercises are easy to learn and memorize. This gives your brain a break and lets you focus on cleaning up your technique.
Not Just for Speed Freaks.
Even if you don’t feel the need to play fast, spending time daily with an exercise can make your playing feel effortless.
Save Your Song.
Constant repetition of any ideas is how you will improve on it. Spending time working on the exercises can develop some of the same ability, but you won’t have overplayed a song much that you ruin it.
My Experience
For the first few years of playing, I spent most of my time playing different exercises that I was taught or found in other videos or books.
This made learning a song a lot easier because didn’t struggle with the physical part of playing it. My first instrument was an organ. I use to come up with ideas similar to the exercises in the video below. It had a great dramatic affect on my playing even then.
What is in the Video.
Even though it’s only titled “1234,” I go over several alterations of the exercise. Before the video is done, you will understand how to come up with many different variations of the 1234 exercise.
