Comments on: Using Finger Patterns to Improve your Playing http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/using-finger-patterns-to-improve-your-playing/ A Community for Guitarists Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: guitar speed http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/using-finger-patterns-to-improve-your-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 guitar speed Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:24:47 +0000 http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/?p=2174#comment-1029 This is a good one. %50 percent of getting more efficient at playing is to analyze one's playing and then make corrections accordingly. This of course requires us to have to slow down which is something that no player likes to do ;) This is a good one. %50 percent of getting more efficient at playing is to analyze one’s playing and then make corrections accordingly. This of course requires us to have to slow down which is something that no player likes to do ;)

]]> By: Scott Von Heldt http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/using-finger-patterns-to-improve-your-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Scott Von Heldt Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:46:07 +0000 http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/?p=2174#comment-979 Those Dream Theater cats are the kings of funky fingerings! But yeah, this is a big issue for many players. I think dissecting the physical aspects involved with playing really helps one to recognize where hidden potentialities lie! Great post!!! SVH Those Dream Theater cats are the kings of funky fingerings! But yeah, this is a big issue for many players. I think dissecting the physical aspects involved with playing really helps one to recognize where hidden potentialities lie! Great post!!!

SVH

]]> By: Dan http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/using-finger-patterns-to-improve-your-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Dan Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:46:43 +0000 http://sharemyguitar.com/blog/?p=2174#comment-978 One way that I overlooked for a long time of using my middle and pinky fingers was for grabbing power chords without having to change my hand position. Two examples I can think of, that I'm too lazy to try to notate in the comment box: - switching between, say, G5 and G#5 on strings 6 and 5, playing the G5 with index/ring and the G#5 middle and pinky - jumping from an open position power chord, say A5, up a minor 3rd to C5, by playing the E on the second fret of the D string with your index finger and then the 3rd and fifth frets for the C5 on strings 5 and 4 with your middle and pinky Also, one drill for finger independence was something I saw on John Myung's DVD that I think was called the Spider. You basically play the G5/G#5 fingered as described above except play the notes individual (G, up to D, down to G#, up to D#), then invert your fingers to play the minor 3rds (A to C to A# to C#), then slide up a fret and do it again. You can also work on your string skipping by skipping one string to play octaves and minor 6ths, or skip however many strings you want. (Yes, John Myung's technically a bass player, but he claimed to have learned the drill from Petrucci :p) One way that I overlooked for a long time of using my middle and pinky fingers was for grabbing power chords without having to change my hand position. Two examples I can think of, that I’m too lazy to try to notate in the comment box:

- switching between, say, G5 and G#5 on strings 6 and 5, playing the G5 with index/ring and the G#5 middle and pinky

- jumping from an open position power chord, say A5, up a minor 3rd to C5, by playing the E on the second fret of the D string with your index finger and then the 3rd and fifth frets for the C5 on strings 5 and 4 with your middle and pinky

Also, one drill for finger independence was something I saw on John Myung’s DVD that I think was called the Spider. You basically play the G5/G#5 fingered as described above except play the notes individual (G, up to D, down to G#, up to D#), then invert your fingers to play the minor 3rds (A to C to A# to C#), then slide up a fret and do it again. You can also work on your string skipping by skipping one string to play octaves and minor 6ths, or skip however many strings you want. (Yes, John Myung’s technically a bass player, but he claimed to have learned the drill from Petrucci :p)

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