Hal Leonard Daily Guitar Warm-Ups Essential Elements Guitar (Book/Online Audio)

A good warm-up session can be the most crucial part of practice session. Not only does it limber and stretch finger muscles, it helps to ward off injuries, gets hands in "sync," and promotes accuracy and speed. This book contains a wide variety of exercises to help get hands in top playing shape. It addresses the basic elements of guitar warm-ups by category: stretches and pre-playing coordination exercises, picking exercises, right- and left-hand synchronization, and rhythm guitar warm-ups. The Odds & Ends chapter covers other misc. topics such as legato warm-ups, string-bending exercises, scale sequences, and arpeggios. Use this book daily, choosing one or two exercises in each chapter to warm up, and playing will be cleaner, more articulate, and of a higher caliber. The online audio will help master the lessons.