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- Read the English Faq.htm
- Read the Dutch Faq.htm
- Motivate Yourself
- Stan's ONE-MINUTE Programs Checklist
Here are some basic excersises
Gymnastics
- Temperature
- Warm water
- Hairdryer
- Muscles
- Stretch your (bended) fingers
- Bloodcirculation
- Shake fingers and rest a couple of seconds
Scales
- Frethand
- Pickhand (righthand-tap)
- Frethand plays Chords - Pickhand plays Scales
- Simultaneously tapping with Fret- AND Pickhand
- Static Scales
- Slide Scales
- Pentatonic
- Blues
- Modes 7
- Harmonic Minor
- Chromatic
Remarks:
- Add a chromatic to the Modes (8-tone scales! and sounds nice too!)
- Discover Crosspoints (a shared spot) between scales
- Play with Straight Feeling
- Play with Triple Feeling
Arpeggio's
- Use scales to designate Major/Minor 7/9/11/13
- Frethand
- Pickhand (righthand-tap)
- Root on 6th string
- Root on 5th string
Remarks:
- Play over different modes along the fretboard
- Play over chords like Am-Dm-E7 -each chord 3 different settings
Tricks
Harmonics
- Natural
- Pickhand
- Light-touch
- Tapped
- Classical
- Multiple (also with Frethand-trill)
Show-off tricks
- Slides, Two-handed Slide
- Scrapes, Up & down, Treblestring-scrape
- Stringyanks
- Bends (1/2-1/1.5)
- Pickhand-bends
- Feedback
- Ghostnotes
- Stringrakes Up & Downwards
- Slapping
- Volume-swells
Tremolo-bar Tricks
- Divebomb & Inverted Divebomb (before & after the note)
- With Harmonics (as above)
- With Hammer-on and Pull-off
Paganini
- Play Excerpts
Think & Play
First think then make MUSIC!
- Alternate- en Speedpicking
- Chopping (Straight & Shuffle(triplet)-feel)
- Leadguitar (oa. Dropped-D tuning)
- 8-finger fretboard tapping
- Slidetechnieken (Tunings en Styles)
- How to play a NICE solo (just Fantasize!)
- Analize Dire Straits to Pantera..
- Analize famous players (Satriani, Vai, Joe Walsh, Gary Moore, Steve Morse etc..)
- How to play in a band (how to rehearse, how to sort out repertoire etc.)
- Rithmics
- Musictheory