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Legato Exercises for Beginners

Lucas Fowler
BeginnerAny styleExercises 5 lessons15m

Hey everyone! This month we're going to discuss some very basic exercises to strengthen your legato technique. These will help build muscle memory that you can apply to scales and muscial playing as well as increase your stamina and the length of time you can play this way without fatigue. This first exercise deals with a half step, whole step pattern using fingers 1, 2 and 4. Use a metronome and start slow! -LF

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  1. 1 5:20 Lesson · 5m Legato Exercises for Beginners: Intro & Figure 1 Hey everyone! This month we're going to discuss some very basic exercises to strengthen your legato technique. These will help build muscle memory that you can apply to scales and muscial playing as well as... Tab Guitar Pro
  2. 2 1:20 Lesson · 1m Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figure 2 Following the previous exercise, this is essentially the same thing but using the whole step, half step combination with fingers 1, 3 and 4. Remember to start slow and only increase the speed once you can do... Tab Guitar Pro
  3. 3 2:26 Lesson · 2m Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figure 3 Now we're going to practice the last "shape" in the form of fingers 1, 2 and 4, but with whole step, whole step intervals. As with the previous drills, start slow and build up the tempo only when you feel the... Tab Guitar Pro
  4. 4 4:04 Lesson · 4m Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figures 4-7 Now that you feel comfortable with the "shapes" from the first three examples, we're going to apply them across all six strings using a pattern of two steps forward, one step back. These will build up stamina... Tab Guitar Pro
  5. 5 1:32 Lesson · 2m Legato Exercises for Beginners: Figures 8-10 For the last section, we're going to add to the pattern idea used in the last figure. Now instead of doing two steps forward, one step back, we are going to do three steps forward, one step back. This will... Tab Guitar Pro

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