Little Star Exercise

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Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: This month I present to you an exercise you might find to be quite unorthodox. I've been getting a lot of questions about how to clean up playing and finger tone. The answer is quite simple but choosing a method can be quite a confusing process. What we're going to do here is choose a very simple melody. So easy that it should free you up to listen intensel...

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Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Let's face it. We all want to sound better and there's only so much high end gear can do. The beginning of it all starts at the fingers. I find that finger control is the source of why a lot of hard working guitar players out there may come off as sounding quite novice. We're going to correct and perfect this, given you apply that same hard work to this meth...

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Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Like I said before, we're going to cycle only the first 7 notes of 'Twinkle twinkle little star' and here are the rules: 1. You get to choose two fingers to play this melody 2. No sliding, slurs, or string talk (noise) 3. Each note has to be held for it's complete duration (in this case one quarter note) Take your time. No matter how good you are at this...

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Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Have fun with the backing track! Closing statements are in the next video.

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Instructor: Al Joseph Level: Beginner Topic: Exercises Style: Any Style

Excerpt: Hope this was fun guys. I know play 'Twinkle twinkle little start' can be quite insulting to a lot of you great players out there. But I trust by now that you see this is not the point of the exercise. Thanks for tuning in this month as always. Cheers, AJ

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