Exercises by the kind of playing you do
The Exercises page now has a page for each style: Metal, Rock & blues, Fundamentals and Bass, each with where to start, the exercises by skill, practice routines and tips for the style.
The Exercises page used to be one long list, split into warm-up, picking, legato, scales and rhythm. Now it starts by asking what you play, and each style has a page of its own:
- Metal: palm-muted downpicking, gallops, triplets, power chords and tremolo picking.
- Rock & blues: for clean and crunch electric, often single-coil guitars. Alternate picking, string crossing, legato and the pentatonic.
- Fundamentals: for every guitarist, whatever they play. Warm-ups, finger independence and scales across the neck.
- Bass: plucking, scales in one position, octaves and grooves for 4-string bass.
Each page has:
- Where to start: the exercises in order for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Every exercise now has a level.
- The exercises by skill, with a few words on why the style needs that skill. Each card shows the first bar of the tab. Your progress and your goal tempo are on the cards as before.
- Exercises from the other styles that help with this one too.
- Two practice routines: which exercises to play, for how many minutes each.
- Tips for setting up for the style, and answers to common questions.
Each exercise's own page now says its level and links back to its style. Old links to the Exercises page, from bookmarks or the player, still take you to the right exercise.
Acoustic and classical guitar are next: strumming patterns, chord changes and fingerpicking for the acoustic, and arpeggios, scales and études for the classical guitar.