Effective finger exercises

Finger exercises | One of the keys to amazing guitar

Have your fingers ever not cooperated? Bar chords hard to form and hold? Guitar fingerpicking not as fast and accurate as you think it should be? Finger exercises can help. They have helped me tremendously.

Maybe your hands gave out on you 20 minutes into your 4 hour practice session?

How do professionals practice huge amounts of hours a day?

Are they super-human? Maybe.

Another thing I'm almost sure of - they have probably had their share of repetitive stress injuries. Sometimes that how it works, people have to learn the hard way.

If you want to play for all of your life, get and stay in top physical shape. That usually takes regular finger exercises, proper practice techniques, nutrition and rest from workouts for recovery.

I'll give the following advice guitar finger exercises and any other physical exercise routine.

Make sure you consult your doctors on anything I suggest here and do not start any exercise program without your medical doctors consent.

So what is the objective that we should be seeking with a finger exercise program? -

To speed your progress while learning how to play guitar. To increase your guitar fingerpicking abilities, strengthen your abilty to form chords, build dexterity and confidence while playing the guitar.

Strong pain free hands with the agility, speed, control and endurance to play the things we want to play and continue to practice and improve continually.

So what your needing is finger independence - isolate the movements of one finger at a time while keeping the others as still as possible.

Finger strength and endurance. By exercising the gripping muscles for holding chords and the extensor muscles of the hand for the ability to move quickly over the fretboard.This is great for gripping bar chords as well as open chords and fingerpicking.

Here are some great sources of information and and some great hand exercise equipment I've used and a few finger exercises to help get the job done.

1. A good stretching, exercise and massage program for your hands, wrists and forearms.

Quick hands with the dexterity needed to move quickly over the fretboard are going to have to have amazing flexibility and strength. Stretching each finger carefully through its range of movement.

Here are some simple stretches for the fingers. Proceed with caution.

Gently stretch the fingers out by grasping the finger and apply a easy stretch outward and through its range.

Stretch between the fingers with your other hand in between each set of fingers.

stretch the thumb out away from the hand and repeat until a good stretch is felt.

A good daily hand stretching program will help keep your hands supple and fluid.

I recommend one called Healthy Hands by Martin Grey. I have this program and it is the only one that I have been able to find.

He is a massage therapist that specializes in this area.It has some great isometric exercises, stretches, and a very thorough massage routine.

These provide great exercises for developing hand, finger and forearm dexterity, coordination and speed. There are many ways to use them. They are fun to use and after you get used to them , you can work with them while your doing other things like watching television.

They are excellent for gaining coordination and fine movement in your fingers wrists and hands.

If you just leave it around where you normally watch television it makes it easy to get a hand workout and gain hand strength.

4. Finger Weights - These slide onto your fingers and provide resistance hand exercise while you go about practicing your guitar. Increasing hand, fingers and forearm strength.

I've got to admit I was skeptical about these at first, but was surprised when they actually made a difference that I could notice.

They do take some getting used to. They pinched the heck out of my fingers but I found that if you move them around just a little bit that goes away. but I have found them to be a great help, and they are great to use in the Finger fitness Program.

These are for closing grip strength and grip. They also work the wrists and forearms.

These can really give a great workout - just keep close track of the included string used to start the ball rotating.It's a great piece of hand exercise equipment.

It can be started by hand but I haven't mastered the technique yet. But I'm getting there.

I don't know too much about that. I've never experienced carpel tunnel syndrome or anything like that. - I use mine to exercise the extensors muscles in my hands as a preventative and to build strength and speed in hand, fingers and forearms.

Around 15 finger exercises from one outstanding tool.

I like them. They are probably what I consider towards the top results producing tools that I have. I feel I'm getting great results with the exercises.

They are not inexpensive at $200 a pair but if it helps a person avoid a $20,000 carpel tunnel operation that might fail, hey that what I consider a good investment.

Sleep and regular physical exercise is also a good idea for most people unless they are in really bad shape. Plenty of good fresh water, eating healthy food and keeping your stress level down will help maintain the enthusiasm and energy levels needed for some kick butt guitar.

Get out into nature and take care of yourself. Take a break every once in awhile from the guitar so you will look forward to getting back to it.

Shake your hands out frequently, move your fingertips quickly in the air. This keeps them loose, relaxed and ready to play guitar.

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