Everybody loves to play the guitar but does anybody really love to practice? I haven’t met many people who could honestly convince me that they did, and yet we all know that if we want to develop a solid finger technique, which in turn will help us realize our musical ambitions and ideas, then we must practice. With this book I have tried to lay out a concise method to achieve the best results with minimum time and effort.
The book was developed for guitar students who want to build up a solid finger technique, for advanced players who want to improve their abilities and also for the professional guitarist‘s daily workout and for teachers who want to teach according to the concepts presented in this manual.
FINGER WORKS is a minimal and transparent yet comprehensive compilation of all possible finger movements required to play the classical guitar, using the fingers of the left and the right hands. With a strong focus on such topics as rhythm and voicing, this method aims to help develop a musical rather than an abstract mechanical guitar technique.
Practice the exercises as written in this book but also improvise around them creatively, according to your individual needs and requirements. For example, all right hand exercises may either be played with an open e-minor or with any shiftable chord of the left hand. Bass note patterns may be improvised freely.
The various chapters are arranged loosely and do not need to be practiced in the order they are presented.
You can choose all or only certain parts of each chapter or concentrate only on one particular subject at a time.
