Right Hand Fingerstyle Arpeggio Playing
- Right Hand Fingerstyle Arpeggio Playing
- Fingerstyle Guitar Pull-offs, Hammer-ons, slurs
- Fingerstyle Guitar Chord Study
- Fingerstyle Guitar Arpeggio Study
- Fingerstyle Guitar Half Barre Chord Study
Creating A Secure Right Hand Fingerstyle Foundation
Most people who want to play guitar can often run headlong into learning chords, scales, songs but in this lesson, James Akers discusses how you can develop a secure and strong fingerstyle technique when playing arpeggio patterns.
Topics Covered
- Finger position of both the right and left hands.
- Hand and arm position both left and right arms.
- Describing the four note pattern to be played.
- Demonstrating the actual exercise.
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Learn More About James Akers’s Guitar Exam Exercise Book.
For guitarists looking to further their playing technique and/or who are preparing for ABRSM, Trinity, Guildhall or indeed any classical/fingerstyle guitar exam, this book is for you.Â
The exercises and studies in this book are graded to correspond to the technical demands required of each grade from 1 to 5, in both classical and acoustic guitar syllabuses. A section with more advanced techniques is included towards the end of the book.
BOOK CONTENT 85 exercises & 16 studies grade 1 to grade 5 and beyond covering:
- GRADE 1 – The exercises for grade 1 are intended to help the guitarist in the early stages of their development build up their finger strength, improve their coordination, tone production, speed, and accuracy.
- GRADE 2 – The exercises for Grade 2 extend and consolidate the ideas introduced in Grade 1, providing more material to allow the evolving guitarist to improve their technique in a systematic way.
- GRADE 3 – New techniques are introduced, including slurs, (or hammer-ons and pull-offs) and natural harmonics. In addition, as well as exercises, there are several specially composed study pieces, in a variety of styles, to allow the techniques learned so far to be practised in a more musical context.
- GRADE 4 – Common descending arpeggio pattern across three strings, 4 note chords using all right-hand fingers, multiple slurs, or hammer-ons and pull-offs, in various finger combinations including open strings and multiple fretted notes, the half-barre technique for the left hand.
- GRADE 5 – Ascending arpeggio patterns, speed & rhythmic pattern exercises, left hand workouts with repeated patterns, mixed ascending/descending slur patterns, full barre technique
- BEYOND GRADE 5 – Tremelo technique, natural harmonics in exercise and within a study.
STUDIES
Sixteen original studies are provided for grades 3 onwards:
- GRADE 3 – Six studies individually demonstrating various left hand finger combinations, two part chordal textures, three part chords, ascending slur and hammer on techniques,
- GRADE 4 – Four studies individually demonstrating arpeggio playing, three and four part chordal performance, half barre in a musical context, ascending and descending slurs, playing in complex time signatures, introducing natural harmonics.
- GRADE 5 AND BEYOND – Six studies individually demonstrating arpeggio playing, slur exploration, speed study, thick textured chordal playing, tremelo study, artificial harmonics in melodic scenario.
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