1st Guitar Snake Exercises: Introduction to Snake Exercises

1^st Guitar Snake Exercises: Introduction to Snake Exercises. Drop me an email/message and we can set up a lesson.

1:1 Guitar snake exercises are an excellent way of improving your picking hand and your fretting hand.

1:2 Guitar snake exercises can be done with any tuning you may desire.

1:3 Guitar snake exercises should be done on all 6 strings. Not using all six strings when practicing is cheating.

1:4 Guitar snake exercises can and should be done all over the neck of a guitar. However, it is good not a good idea to do too many fingering below the 5^th fret depending on the size of your hand.

1:5 Stop exercising at the first sign of pain. It is probably a bad idea for almost every guitarist to add whole step spaces between any two adjacent fingers.

1:6 John Petrucci is able to add whole steps between fingers, but his hands are bigger and more advanced.

1:7 Before doing finger exercises on your guitar stretch. If you do not know how to stretch properly, then stop here and go see a guitar teacher. I, myself, injured myself partly because I didn’t know how to stretch properly before playing guitar.

1:8 Stretch immediately after practicing.

1:9 Snake exercise consist of using 4 adjacent frets, and doing various patterns with them. In future books, more patterns will be given.

1:10 Snake exercises are often atonal. However, the patterns that you will learn when doing snake exercises are useful for strengthening muscles for scalar work.

1:11 Snake exercises are sometimes tonal. However, if one desires to be a complete guitarist, atonal exercises should be done.

1:12 As you improve snake exercises will help both your song writing and your song playing.

1:13 Snakes exercises are patterns.

1:14 Snake exercising are done repetitively.

1:15 If your hands aren’t big enough to do chords, then you can still probably do snake exercises. Eventually, you will probably also able chords as well as your hands grow.

1:16 Playing an entire snake exercises book may be more than one can accomplish in one day.