Dexterity
Warmups and finger-independence drills that build strength, accuracy, and coordination — the physical foundation that makes everything else on the guitar feel easy.
Dexterity
Earth guitarists, your tutor has observed, mostly quit for a physical reason dressed up as a musical one: the chord was never the problem, the fingers were. Hands are trainable hardware, and a few minutes of deliberate drilling per day upgrades them faster than hours of frustrated song attempts.
This course gives you three tools: the chromatic warmup that opens every practice session, hammer-ons and pull-offs for left-hand strength and smoothness, and permutation drills that teach each finger to move on its own. All three run on the metronome and the timer from your practice station.
None of it sounds like music yet. All of it is why the music will sound good.
Exercises
- Exercise 00Interview✓Tell your tutor what you already know about this course's topic and what you want to get out of it.
- Exercise 01The chromatic warmup✓Learn the one-finger-per-fret chromatic warmup — four notes per string across all six strings, with a metronome, clean before fast.
- Exercise 02Hammer-ons and pull-offs✓Learn hammer-ons and pull-offs — sounding notes with the fretting hand alone — and the drills that turn them into left-hand strength.
- Exercise 03Finger independence✓Permutation drills that teach each fretting finger to move on its own — all 24 orderings of four fingers, a few per day, practiced to a timer.