Beginner Guitar Exercises - Using Pointer Finger to Fret Several Frets On A Single String

In this exercise, we use the pointer finger to fret several notes along a single string.Show more

The idea of these exercises is to develop good habits, and break bad habits before they start.

The good habit here is the idea that your pointer finger is mobile, and can access many frets, and make many sounds,

And the bad habit of assuming that a certain note must be played with a certain finger.

Ideally, you want to run all 4 of your fret hand fingers thru the same grueling rote listening exercises, to strengthen, callous, attenuate, muscle memory, etc

So that almost no matter where you are on a fingerboard, your fingers know where they are, relative to each other, and what they have to do to get where you want to go next.