Good guitar exercise?

[duke 838]

Any good exercise for beginners, that will help me familiarize myself with the chord's and picking?

Edit, if you can it would be helpful to see it in tabs, thank you.

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Play music.

Picking:
Good Riddance - Green Day

Chords:
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

[Sirrus]

Do scales.

And if you're talking basic warmup exercises, fret/pick 1, 2, 3, 4 on the low e with your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers then go to your a string and repeat until you get to your high e, do it for that string, then do it backwards back down the strings (4,3,2,1 on the high e and then go to the b string and repeat until you've done the bottom e)

Then mix it up, like 2,3,1,4 with their respective fingers up and then backwards (4,1,3,2) back down the strings. Good way to warm up.

[yuki]

To excersize your arm and finger muscles, I recommend playing Guitar Hero. No joke, play it for hours until your arms are about to fall off, it's an excellent workout for guitar playing. Other than that, scales, like Sirrus said, or just pick a song you like and do the tabs over and over until you're good at it.

In all honesty, Guitar Hero really does help beginner guitar players.

[Katamari007]

Put weights in it and tape it to your head, then do sit-ups.

[Kira100000]

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[duke 838]

Do scales.

And if you're talking basic warmup exercises, fret/pick 1, 2, 3, 4 on the low e with your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers then go to your a string and repeat until you get to your high e, do it for that string, then do it backwards back down the strings (4,3,2,1 on the high e and then go to the b string and repeat until you've done the bottom e)

Then mix it up, like 2,3,1,4 with their respective fingers up and then backwards (4,1,3,2) back down the strings. Good way to warm up.

Thank you.

To excersize your arm and finger muscles, I recommend playing Guitar Hero. No joke, play it for hours until your arms are about to fall off, it's an excellent workout for guitar playing. Other than that, scales, like Sirrus said, or just pick a song you like and do the tabs over and over until you're good at it.

In all honesty, Guitar Hero really does help beginner guitar players.

Sold my guitar hero :P

[VerticalHorizon]

Play these chords in this order: G, D, C, G, C, D, Em, B, then repeat from the beginning. I do this every time I'm about to play acoustic because it refreshes the chord positions in my head and wakes up my fingers.

[duke 838]

Play these chords in this order: G, D, C, G, C, D, Em, B, then repeat from the beginning. I do this every time I'm about to play acoustic because it refreshes the chord positions in my head and wakes up my fingers.

Thank you.

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