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Norman Paul Kliman -> 34 exercises with diatonic chords (Mar. 19 2024 20:25:16)
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Hi everyone,
I’ve updated the guitar exercises on my website. I’ve deleted some of the older stuff to add 34 new exercises that apply different right-hand techniques and patterns to a single diatonic chord progression.
I’ve been playing these new exercises for about a month, and they seem to be making my hands stronger.
I developed the material from my most recent warm-up exercise, but it all goes back to a very basic idea in thirds that Ramón Montoya and others played a lot. Extending that idea up and down the neck, I worked out 13 chords, from E minor in first position to C major where the neck joins the body. Thirteen is an odd number that works well for forming a loop with 12 chords up and 12 down.
The six techniques applied to this progression are (1) arpeggios, (2) horquilla, (3) thumb and index, (4) thumb and index + single-note lines, (5) single-note lines and (6) tremolo. I’ve worked out ascending and descending patterns in triplets, sixteenths and other time values, trying to cover all the possible variations that are useful.
The result is a lot of new material, some of which will probably be too easy or too hard, and some that should be juuuust right for you.
Here’s the link to these exercises on the updated exercises page:
http://canteytoque.es/pmiexc.htm#diatonic
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