Lockdown Workout

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Key Various Tempo Various CD TRACKS 4-10

Will improve your…

Alternate, hybrid and sweep picking.

Legato techniques

Two-handed tapping and string bending

For the time being at least, most of us are having to spend more time at home. So what better opportunity to knuckle down and get those chops in order; hone what you already can do, or perhaps try a technique you’ve shied away from in the past? To that end we’ve created a targeted, 30-day workout. So let’s head to the (virtual) guitar gym and pump those silver strings.

The programme has been designed to address common weaknesses in fretting and picking techniques. If you follow each day’s lesson carefully, we guarantee a noticeable boost to your abilities in just 30 days.

We have divided our studies into six sections, each with five increasingly difficult tasks totalling 30 mini-workouts that focus on: string bending, alternate picking, sweep picking, hybrid picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and two-handed tapping. While not pastiches as such, we do reference revered guitarists in the musical captions, since these