The Power Punch Guitar Workshop - Instructional Book

This is a finger exercise guitar book which I wrote for the conservatory that I own and operate. After introducing it to all of our students at the conservatory, the high schools here in southwestern Ontario started using it for their high school guitar programs as well. The book has 8 grades of finger exercises (divided into belts from white to black: like karate) that get progressively more difficult with each grade, starting with random simple finger combinations and later advancing to scales, modes and arpeggios!  Mp3 recordings of every exercise in all 8 grades are available for downloading. 

In the beginning, the key is to develop good right-left hand technique while avoiding bad habits that eventually hamper your picking clarity and speed.  Simple things like raising the fingers on your fretting hand too high, sweeping to wide with your picking stroke, not using precise fingertips and holding your pick with 3 or 4 fingers….all can be very detrimental to your improvement on guitar. These are some of the important points that are highlighted throughout the book.

Each level in this program will require a little more skill and finesse than the last until the ultimate test, LEVEL EIGHT (BLACK BELT). The higher levels will push even the most accomplished players to their limits. Each page has slow, medium and fast metronome markings to gauge progress and create clean articulated speed. I know that speed is not the most important thing to have as a player but it sure is nice to incorporate it into a solo when you need to. 

Included are the .mp3 finger exercise recordings that go along with this book in a downloadable format!