Guitar Exercises For Dummies features over 400 exercises, plus technique-building opportunities to help readers refine their techniques and improve control and timing.

Train your fingers to become a lean, mean guitar-playing machine! Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You'll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter. * Review basic guitar fundamentals - posture, holding the guitar, sitting and standing with the guitar * Brush up on guitar notation - decoding tablature, comprehending chord diagrams, interpreting neck diagrams, recognizing rhythm slashes * Warm up away from the guitar - release tension, improve breathing, prepare your mind and body to play * Wake up those fingers - limber up your fingers by playing simple exercises * Develop strength, speed, and independence - play single-note patterns and chord progressions Open the book and find: * More than 300 exercises in various keys, positions, and rhythms * Drills & tips to perfect your playing and maximize your practice time * Technique building opportunities * Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords * Full-length pieces to play along with * Ways to improve your musicianship Bonus CD Includes * Selected exercises from each chapter * Every performance piece * Open string tuning notes * Metronome tracks of different tempos