Hi guitar maniacs, today I want to share with you some of my guitar technique exercises procedure. Let's be honest - technique building exercises like picking, scales, arpeggios - are quite boring and we're tending to speed them up which is highly undesired habit in technique developing process. To make our practice much more exiting experience why shall we not use THE BEST MUSIC EVER WRITTEN as our daily practice material: For me the "best music ever written" comes from that old German Grandpa - J.S. Bach. And if you haven't dig into his cathedra-like opus yet, then take a shortcut and just check the Well Tempered Clavier Preludes and Fugues. For the purpose of alternate picking guitar technique I start with prelude no 2 from book I WLC in C minor. We will get multiple tasks done when learning that short piece:
However the biggest advantage I see, is that we not only are building our technique but we have deep insight into one of the greatest musical mind of all times. What I mean exactly is that we learn from J.S. Bach directly:
I play both parts at: 85 ppm:You play with me: backing track for both parts with tab & notation at 60 bpm:More backing tracks for higher speeds will come soon. Here you can download full files with tab+notation as well as mp3 backing tracks - I'll be grateful if you share or subscribe to my videos
Please make sure that you are practicing correctly i.e:
If you have any question use the comments section below.
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Stephen Bonczkowski
31/3/2017 03:29:07
I have been playing guitar for 59 years and have been using Bach for almost as long, violin sonatas & partitas and others as well as classical violin studies. My first and only real teacher was a great bebop and session player in Chicago. He started me with this material quite early on. It has proved invaluable to me. I use what he taught me to this day. Thanks for spreading the word.
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Tomek
3/4/2017 08:44:19
Yes Stephen, solo violin pieces are also great stuff to play. Thanks :)
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