Great Fretting Hand Exercise

Created for classical players to help with fretting hand independence, but will work for everyone.

Parallel Octaves

Giuliani Arpeggios pdf

Click here for the 120 Giuliani Arpeggios

Great for classical guitarists and for finger-style guitarists alike.

Learn New Styles - Brazilian

You can never have a basic knowledge of enough styles. Comes in handy for sessions or you can import ideas from other genres into your genres of choice to make yours more interesting and unique.

Loving this book....

The Brazilian Guitar Book

A New Pinky Exercise

Courtesy of flamenco guitarist Rayito...

Giannini GWNC 4 Asturias Handcrafted Classical Guitar (Acoustic, Nylon)

Two Simple Exercises

Here are a couple of basic exercises for developing finger independence.

Start on the first fret of the first string (F) with your first finger, then play the second fret with the second finger, third with the third and fourth with the fourth and back again. ie - 12344321

Now move up a fret and repeat. All the way to the 9th fret (so your pinky is on the 12th fret) and back down. Repeat on each string. If playing on classical guitar alternate your right hand fingerings as well to bring a greater challenge.... imimimim, mamamama, iaiaiaia, imamimam, pppppppp, etc.

The next exercise is 14342434 and should utilize the above variations.

Pumping Nylon

For those classical guitarists out there who are looking for some exercises that will kick you butt look no further than this book by Scott Tennant...

Pumping Nylon (Book & DVD)

No pain, no gain.

If you are wanting to dig even deeper in...

Art of Classical Guitar Playing (The Art of Series)

Cool Site #5 - Free Classical Guitar Music

Free Classical Guitar Music - in pdf, gif or jpg formats.