Lesson 7 - Hand Synchronization

The exercises in this lesson are aimed to help you improve the syncing between the hands as well as make the fingers of your fretting hand move in more thoughtful and clear way.

An example of a good synchronization is when:

• Just in a moment the fretting hand finger begins pressing a string you strike it with the plectrum - without any perceptible delay.
• while the string rings, another finger of the fretting hand gets closer to a next fret you're gonna press, in a moment you play at this fret, you lift the previous finger off the fingerboard just a bit.

This makes the job of each finger more defined and clear and the transition from one note to the next happens in an instant.

Exercises

I inform you again that you can use either the index, middle and the ring finger of the fretting hand or the 4 fingers (including the pinky).

I recorded these exercises long time ago using the '3-finger' scheme, but since then I returned back to using the pinky finger.

Alternative fingering: 4 3 1 3

Alternative fingering: 4 2 1 2

Alternative fingering: 4 2 1 2

Alternative fingering:
4 3 1 3 4 2 1 2 || 4 2 1 2 4 3 1 3

Alternative fingering:
4 3 1 3 x2 || 4 2 1 2 x2 || 4 2 1 2 x2 || 4 3 1 3 x2

This exercise is very similar to the previous one, but here each 4 note sequence is played twice.

Alternative fingering:
4 3 2 1 4 2 1 1 || 4 2 1 1 4 2 1 1
4 3 2 1 4 2 1 1 || 4 2 1 1 4 3 2 1 2

Alternative fingering:
4 1 3 4 4 1 2 4 || 4 1 2 4 4 1 3 4
4 1 2 4 4 1 2 4 || 4 1 2 4 4

Chromatic Exercise

Chromatic exercises are very helpful for warming up and improving hand synchronization. Just go back and forth on the fingerboard playing notes in a sequence like these: