Here's a lesson that does more than just show you a few dexterity exercises. This post is going to teach you the THREE elements that make a dexterity exercise function properly and produce results. 

With this lesson, you'll be able to master studies you already know and develop your own dexterity exercises to rid your guitar playing of sloppy technique once and for all...



Sloppy guitar playing is generally the result of a combination of many different technical problems. Some of these have to do with just simply going too fast, too soon and basically rushing past proper levels of hand coordination in the pursuit of being able to play a song, or a scale, or a guitar lick (whatever it is), up to its top speed as soon as possible.

The problem with rushing the skills is that when you rush things, you will often learn just as many bad habits as good ones. And, that kind of learning is something that we really need to avoid as much as possible.

Let’s begin by breaking down a collection of ways that you can design dexterity exercises so in the end your skills develop slowly and perfectly.

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STAGE ONE). 
Commit Every New Dexterity Drill to Memory
With the practice of any new guitar part, you'll need to develop playing the part up to a level for which we’ll refer to as the, “best as possible,” level of skill.

However, to get there, you’ll need to begin from a starting point of what we’ll call, “slow perfection.” This slowed down level of practice involves committing what you’re going to play to memory.

If it’s a lick, or an exercise, or a riff that you’re learning, memorize it first, before doing anything else. That initial commitment to memorize the part will go a very long way to helping you fully absorb the part and reach new performance heights with the idea.

Let’s try out a fairly basic fret-hand dexterity drill that involves some; stretching, some picking hand work, and some hammer-on, / pull-off technique…

Dexterity Exercise #1).





STAGE TWO). 
Perfect Practice = Perfect Playing
Once you’ve committed the guitar dexterity drill that you’re working on to memory, the next area that you'll need to focus on is how well you can perfectly play that guitar part.

Be critical of yourself when you do this. Ask a lot of yourself and demand the best from yourself. Make a decision that “Good enough,” isn’t going to be a part of things.

You want excellence. Really “perfect” guitar playing...

Pay attention to how your pick is attacking the string, how clean each note rings out, how connected your fretting hand is upon each fret. These may sound like you're setting yourself up for a lot of nit-picking, but that’s exactly what we want when we study dexterity.

I’ve got another exercise for you to try and develop. Remember, memorize the part first. Then work at playing it as perfectly as possible.

Dexterity Exercise #2).





STAGE THREE). 
Establish a Metronome “Rate and Pace” 
Playing to a click track, (the tick-tock of the metronome click), is one of the hardest things that a guitar player who is new to developing their skills up to much higher levels of achievement will often face.

The perfect click of the metronome requires solid timing and perfect meter. The fact of the matter is that doing this kind of practice takes a lot of patience, and discipline plus there has to be a drive there for the metronome to eventually become your friend.

Over time and with practice, the metronome will start to become a lot more manageable to deal with. You’ll just have to get used to it.

To help you start to become more acquainted with listening to that constant click of the metronome, I have a general picking study for you to try working on…

Dexterity Exercise #3).





CONCLUSION:
Before wrapping up, I do have a couple of bonus suggestions. Just a few more ideas that will really help you as you’re either moving through drills that you’ve studied here in this lesson.

The first idea is that once you’ve memorized (and built the exercise that you’re working on - to be able to perform it with a metronome), you’ll want to establish some kind of goal tempo.

The tempo you shoot for should be attainable and it should be at a realistic speed that will take time to reach. Something in the range of 2-3 weeks of practice. Also, make sure that once you know your idea on the neck, move it around. Play it all over the fret-board.

This is an excellent way to help develop a dexterity exercise up to a high level of skill…

Lastly, make sure that you’re creating your own studies as well... Someone else’s dexterity exercises can be great, but sometimes the best exercises are the ones that you make up on your own.



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