Nik Harrison - Left Hand Dexterity & Control 01

This lesson is for classical, acoustic and electric guitar. It uses a repeated pattern to develop left hand control, strength, and dexterity. The exercise comfortably repeats itself and isn't a pattern which has any uncomfortable or awkward moves from one note to another. 

This lesson is a filmed extract from part of the Contemporary Guitar Performance Workshop. This is an approach to the guitar which is independant of stylistic considerations, (or style specific techniques) or instrumental characteristics (electric, acoustic, or classical guitar). The approach is based on musical vocabulary, chords, scales, and techinques. It uses no repertoire, instead relying on the students musical taste and creativity to apply the exercises and ideas to their own musical taste, and develop their own 'voice' on the guitar.

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[nikharrisonmusic]

The tab for this exercise is now available on the CGPW facebook page.

[yhuji123456]

i am left handed and i play guitar on rigth is it good or not because i am not that fast yet on freting

[nikharrisonmusic]

Phil HiIlborne and Steve Morse are both left-handed but play right handed guitar very well indeed! Playing right or left handed guitars shouldn't make any difference. fretting "speed" is just a matter of practice.

[RazzleFr]

Nice! Anyway thanks for the exercises they helped with my legato :)

[nikharrisonmusic]

Thanks for your kind words. It's nice to get some feedback. It's good to hear that it helped.

[RazzleFr]

How do you get your hair that way? Its very hot!

[nikharrisonmusic]

Gillette Mach 3.

[tabula123456]

It's a real pity you didn't have close ups...understanding that is a lot more difficult...not impossible...but I would rather spend the time trying to do the left hand exercises than spend it trying to understand what is going on...a close up would have sorted that out completely...apart from that it is a class exercise...