Chords for Slur Exercise for guitarists (serious workout)

Hi, I'm Alan Matthews from Classical Guitar Shed.
In this video, I'm going to give you a slur exercise
that can build speed, agility with your left hand and
these type of things happen a lot in music as well.
But also, this is just a lot of fun once you get it going.
It's kind of a
mildly challenging at first perhaps, but as you get it going, it's a lot of fun.
And so what this exercise is is
1 2 3 4 4 3 2 [A] 1 1 4 3 4 1 [B] 4 2 4
Something like that.
Let's do that.
_ _ [F#] _ [D#] _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _
[E] So it's just all 16th notes.
I'll show you exactly how to do it right now.
So let's start out with the first finger on the first fret of
I'm just gonna choose randomly the fifth string here.
You can do this with all the different strings.
Move it up, do it all the frets.
But we're just gonna start right here.
[G] First finger, first fret, fifth string, the A string.
[A#] And then just playing once with this hand,
[B] we're [C] gonna hammer on
each [F#] finger in succession.
[C#] And so now all four [B] fingers are on there.
So now we're gonna play this over here again and pull off each one individually.
4 3
[A#] So that's our second part.
Our first part is 1 2 3 [C#] 4.
Our second part is 4 3 [A#] 2 1.
And remember pull down and into [B] the fretboard.
[C#m] Don't flip off into space like this.
[A#m] No, because it makes it really soft.
What we want to do is pluck the string with our pull off
down and in, [A#] down and in, down and in.
Just like that.
And the 1 just stays on the whole time.
The third part of this is 1 4 3 4.
So we're gonna do a hammer on 1 [C#] 2 4 and then pull [C] off to 3
and then hammer on 4.
[A#] So again
1 hammer on 4, pull off to 3, [C#] hammer on to 4.
[G#] And then we play 2
[C] 4 3 [C#] 4.
So it's just the same.
That's the fourth part.
It's [B] just the same as the third part except instead of 1 4 3 4, now you got 2 4 3 4.
So the whole thing is we only play this hand, we only play the right hand, four times in this.
[A#] And so it's
_ _ [C#] 1 4 3 4 3 4.
[A#] _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
Then you can move up a fret and _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ just go as much as you want, as fast as you want.
Different strings, you can go this way to where you do it on each string, go across, you can do one,
go all the way up and back down.
But it's just a great _ _ _ finger exercise for you.
Now some people may find this a little bit difficult at first.
They might have trouble with the stretches or with making the
sequential
hammer-ons and pull-offs sound right.
If that's you, do not become discouraged.
These things can take time.
Be very patient.
[C#] And you may want to just isolate the parts.
If you notice that say your pull-off
from 4 to [N] 3 is a little bit
weak, then maybe just isolate that part and just kind of break it up into little pieces.
As you get better at these, then you'll be able to put it all back together and everything.
The main thing is that you just be patient, be easy on yourself, be kind to yourself with it,
and just keep going with it.
And every little bit that you do, you'll just get better and better at it.
Alright, I hope you got that.
You can also do these off the guitar, just on your leg or on your other hand.
This type of thing, anything that you can do off the guitar, is going to actually help you once you get back on the guitar.
Because your mind doesn't know the difference whether you're practicing or not.
This exercise isn't for everybody.
It doesn't work for everybody.
It only works for those people who actually practice it and actually use it.
So it's one thing to have the knowledge and one thing to say, okay, that's that.
1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 1, etc.
It's another thing to actually put this into your daily practice for a little while and actually get the benefits from it.
So to actually learn something, you have to actually know what it is, the knowledge, which is what we just did.
You have to get your hands on the instrument, get some hands on.
And it doesn't even have to be on the instrument.
It can be on your hand or on your arm like this or something.
But you have to actually internalize it muscularly.
[A] And then you have to [G] really pay attention while you're doing it.
So don't, you [N] know, just tune out.
You want to actually do it and pay attention.
And then you just need repetition.
Those are the things you need to actually learn anything in any kind of project.
So that's very good.
I hope that you get a lot out of that.
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