In this video, I’m going to give you a guitar technique workout for the fret-hand that is going to help you build better skill for accomplishing finger-rolls without having to feel as if you are leaving anything on the table.

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DEVELOPING CONTROL:
The key to developing fret-hand effectiveness is to master individual finger control and develop smooth vertical single-note transitions from one adjacent string to the next.

The mastery of these vertical single-note transitions can be accomplished by way of developing the best finger-roll technique possible. In this lesson I've provided a workout to help master the use of ascending and descending finger-roll motions. 

You may never have known that doing this finger-roll idea was so valuable for creating clean, accurate single notes on the guitar. But, after completing this lesson, you will have the tools to develop this idea to a much higher level of skill.

In this lesson I’m going to put together for you what I would call the perfect guitar exercise for getting amazing fret-hand results. 

The reason why this exercise I have for you becomes the perfect fret-hand workout is because we are going to be targeting one of the most problematic technical areas that happens to the fretting-hand, and that is being able to produce a clean sounding finger-roll technique.

The finger-roll is similar to barring, but instead this is a technique that occurs when a note has to be performed from one string over to another string - when both of those strings are running parallel to each other. 

Normally, what happens is when a guitarist who is still developing this technique goes to execute the idea they will unintentionally produce bleed over from the two vertically aligned notes. 

It can be tough to fix this, but I’ve got a great exercise that will go a long way to helping you master the movement. Let’s get started into this right now.

HIGHER STRING TO LOWER:

Another note travel direction that we need to get good at is the direction of a lower string tone moving up, (by way of a finger-roll) to an upper string tone. When we do this movement, the technical approach is basically the opposite of how we did the “higher to lower” finger-roll. 

LOWER STRING TO HIGHER:

Example 2).
The next exercise operates between the 3rd and 2nd guitar strings.

MULTIPLE STRING FINGER-ROLL:

The final exercise is going to focus on taking the finger-roll technique across a greater number of guitar strings. This time, we’ll be practicing the exercise to include an ascending finger-roll across the; 4th, 3rd and 2nd strings!