Guitar Aerobics - Exercises for the Advanced - Bosworth Music

Duck Baker's 'Guitar Aerobics', presents a variety of amazing and challenging exercises and arrangements. Both your right and left hands, as well as each finger, will receive a complete work-out.
The traditional folksongs 'The Wreck Of The Old 97'' and Duck's original composition, 'Holding Pattern' are used to illustrate various right hand picking ideas. This followed by the left hand techniques and ideas to increase the independence of motion of your fingers as well as exercises featuring trills, thumb-fretting, hammer-ons and pull-offs.
'The Rakes of Waterloo' is presented featuring left hand fingerings and techniques necessary for the ornamentation of Celtic melodies. Grace notes, slides and complex embellishments are demonstrated. 'Guitar Aerobics' concludes with right hand slapping techniques and the tune 'The Dirtman Cometh'.