Exercises for develope finger skills

jazzswing · #1 04-24-2011, 02:51 PM

I would like you recomend me a good exercises routine to become in virtuoso.

I need some advice about the exercises for get that achieve.

Thanx

jzucker · #2 04-24-2011, 07:41 PM

start copying charlie christian, move on to kessel, wes, pass, martino

jazzswing · #3 04-25-2011, 07:05 AM

it is not about that, it is about to know how to develope my finger skills to become in a virtuoso like them

how will i copy them if i dont have a good exercises routine?

thanx

23skidoo · #4 04-25-2011, 07:38 AM

check out this thread:

http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/impro...tml#post131687

there are several good exercises posted in this thread, but hopefully my link will take you to post #56 with a video posted by Reg. IMHO, this should be it's own thread in the 'Getting Started' forum, maybe a sticky. I started working on it the day after he posted it and it's helped a lot. I don't know about making you a virtuoso, but it will increase you speed, finger independence, and picking skill if you do it everyday.

Reg posted another video further along, similar but based scales. Haven't worked my way up to it yet, but it looks good, too.....

Hope this is constructive..... for a beginner like me, it's a definite aid in addition to listening to the masters....

jzucker · #5 04-25-2011, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by jazzswing

it is not about that, it is about to know how to develope my finger skills to become in a virtuoso like them

how will i copy them if i dont have a good exercises routine?

thanx

that's exactly how all the greats developed. Nobody got great technique and *THEN* copied the masters. We develop our technique through emulating the masters. You have the whole thing backwards.

pierre richard · #6 04-25-2011, 05:39 PM

check out pagannini violin studies....

any intermediate violin or clarinet study book will be of much help..

time on the instrument..pierre

fumblefingers · #7 04-25-2011, 08:01 PM

1. you can develop "virtuoso like" technique through technique studies if you have the discipline and physical talent.

2. but a real virtuoso also knows how to express music artistically.

3. and becoming an virtuoso improviser is a completely different skill. perhaps master improviser is a better term. its more compositional skill than technique skill. of course the more technical skill the master improviser has, the better.

but whatever.

so if you want to study guitar technique, the Berklee series by William Leavitt is a first rate course of study. it is far from the only one though. there are many.

John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell have some jazz guitar courses that can help you. Pat Martino too. They are not for the beginner however.