#44 – Master A Fragment of the “Walking Exercise!”
The “Walking Exercise” is very popular but guitarists are rarely encouraged to practise it with good technique (meaning it can be negative rather than massively positive for your playing). Here is a short two minute challenge to get you practising it the proper way. Use this as a reminder or kickstarter for the full lesson which is HERE.
- Remember, you can find the complete lesson where I teach the “Walking exercise” in full HERE.
This is an essential warm up exercise for me every time I pick up my guitar to play. Great stuff!
Glad to hear it, Olin. It is a really useful one for sure! 🙂
This too has been part of my warm up. However I need to remind myself to use a light touch and go slow occasionally. Metronome can help.
Dan, do you have a spiderweb exercise as well? Where one uses a staircase approach from the low E string to the G string and then back up to the E string. And then up the neck to the 12th fret. Also, can cover all 6 strings. I first tried this a year ago and at first it was rather hard. Now I do it everyday after your walking exercise.
Good stuff, Don. Yeah, those reminders are key as it can be easy to rush through it. As for the staircase exercise, yeah, I do use that and teach that, not quite as much as this one, but it is a really useful secondary exercise once the walking exercise is solid. I will do a lesson on it at some point too.
Excellent reminder. Great exercise to start or end a session. Also good when I’ve only got a couple of minutes
That’s why I love the two minute challenges – a quick way to get some specific practice in quickly. Glad you found this useful.
Finding this a good exercise to limber up when I’ve overplayed the day before
Yeah, that is a good benefit of this exercise! 🙂
This is a great exercise that I keep coming back to. Seems so important.
Definitely, a really useful one that many do wrong. Good to refresh it to keep up the good habits. 🙂