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Free ebook · 14 pages · PDF

Twelve short exercises that build your hands and your ears.

By Marty Schwartz · Blues, rock and beginner guitar

Open-string picking, a chromatic warm-up, then the A minor pentatonic in 4s, 3s and fourths, the blues scale, the pentatonic across the neck and the Mixolydian in 4s. Every exercise in this free 14-page ebook is in tab, with its counts and a tempo to set your metronome to.

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Real pages from the ebook.

  • Page 4 of the ebook: the A minor pentatonic box at frets 5 to 8 and a tab that runs it up and down, with the counts and the tempo
    Page 4: running the A minor pentatonic, frets 5 to 8
  • Page 10 of the ebook: the A blues scale box with the blue note ringed, and an exercise up and down it in tab
    Page 10: the blues scale, the pentatonic plus one note
  • Page 13 of the ebook: the A Mixolydian scale three notes per string, as a scale box and in tab
    Page 13: the Mixolydian, three notes per string

What you will learn in this free ebook

  • Right-hand picking on two open strings, and a chromatic warm-up over every fretpages 2–3
  • Running the A minor pentatonic, frets 5 to 8page 4
  • The pentatonic box in patterns of 4s and of 3spages 5–6
  • A target run that changes direction and lands on the rootpage 7
  • Playing with fourths: pairs of notes on neighboring strings, then zigzagpages 8–9
  • The blues scale: the pentatonic plus one notepage 10
  • The pentatonic extended from fret 3 to fret 12, with a slide and a hammer-onpages 11–12
  • The Mixolydian in 4s, three notes per stringpages 13–14

Who wrote it

Marty Schwartz

Blues, rock and beginner guitar

One of the best-known guitar teachers on YouTube. Marty teaches more than 30 of our courses: first chords, strumming, blues licks and soloing, with a lot of fun along the way.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. It costs nothing and there is no card to enter. It is yours to keep: read it on screen, save it or print it.

Do I need to read music?

No. Every exercise is in tab, with the beat counts under it and a tempo to set your metronome to.

How do I use it?

Set a metronome to the exercise’s tempo, or slower, and count along. When an exercise feels easy at its tempo, move to the next chapter, and come back to the warm-ups before every practice.

Is it for acoustic or electric?

Both. The exercises work on any guitar.

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