Chromatic exercises

surfville · Post by **surfville** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:02 pm

How important are those? i tell they are very very important this gives you the accuracy you will need to be able to play faster and burn your fingers shredding.

Post by **olly** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:40 pm

I would think that they do have a place in developing speed but I wouldn't just restrict yourself to chromatic exercises.

Work on scales and scale patterns to build speed.

anuj291 · Post by **anuj291** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:25 am

tho i totally agree with oilly , i think chromatic excerc are very important,it helps to build co-ordination among all the four fingers
PS.-we are not following just one patter ie 1234,, mix it up
1324,1243, 1432, 1423 ,anythin and everythin possible,thts how fingers move

iniesta · Post by **iniesta** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:08 pm

my first training is doing 1234 chromatic from the 6th string goes down and climbs up by 4321 to the 6th string again. the pattern goes on 2345... 3456.... until the last fretboard you can do( normally 15th fret). then do it reversely until you reach the 1st fret. it really helps me a lot in precision and fingering!

surfville · Post by **surfville** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 2:41 am

Yeah i don't restricted my exercise to chromatics i just used them for warming up and then doing some real scale runs, some arpeggios and sweeps.

sr106 · Post by **sr106** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:36 am

I totally agree with anuj...
yes, chromatic exercise is very important.....

indieover · Post by **indieover** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:57 pm

well i don't play guitars. i really think that we don't have to playone kind of exrcise only. i will want to do little of different kind of exercises so it will not be tiring. well hope i will be able to learn them soon.

Eidi Kakuno · Post by **Eidi Kakuno** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:34 pm

The chromatic scale is the most important exercise, with this you warn up and sincronize your left and right hand... but speed you`ll have tranning alternate picking... or sweep pickng

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guitarfreternity · Post by **guitarfreternity** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:27 pm

Just as Eidi Kakuno says, it's great for warm ups and sync. But also try running through them with different rhythm's i'e triplets or syncopated 16th notes. It then means you practice 2 techniques in 1.

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capitalalchemy · Post by **capitalalchemy** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:57 pm

Chromatic's are a great way to get started, because they build up good syncopation, but what it means is that if you plan on playing four notes per string very fast, then it will work great, but if you don't want to restrict yourself, then you need to work on other things as well.

Let's say two notes per string, then four on the next, three on the next one, etc. Or maybe string skipping or pedal tone passages.

Even if you get really fast, you really have to break everything down, and account for everything. If you start thinking like this, you'll start to see all sorts of combinations of notes and strings that you can work with.

A lot of guitar players can play fast, but they can only play certain types of runs fast unfortunately. Try and think about how you can mix things up to improve your accuracy. Hope this helps

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capitalalchemy · Post by **capitalalchemy** » Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:43 pm

They are awesome and there are lots of different combinations that you can use them. They are great for syncing up all 4 fingers with 4 pick strokes, but as mentioned above - use different types of exercises to "trick" the fingers and keep them guessing.

Chromatics are great for warming up, but neo classical progressions are very good for the coordination of both pick and hand.

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sanchezgtrs · Post by **sanchezgtrs** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:55 pm

Chromatic's are a great way to get started, because they build up good syncopation, but what it means is that if you plan on playing four notes per string very fast, then it will work great, but if you don't want to restrict yourself, then you need to work on other things as well.

Let's say two notes per string, then four on the next, three on the next one, etc. Or maybe string skipping or pedal tone passages.

Even if you get really fast, you really have to break everything down, and account for everything. If you start thinking like this, you'll start to see all sorts of combinations of notes and strings that you can work with.

A lot of guitar players can play fast, but they can only play certain types of runs fast unfortunately. Try and think about how you can mix things up to improve your accuracy. Hope this helps

http://www.guitarspeedsecret.com

I wouldn't recommend spending too much time practicing chromatic exercises other than tryin to build on rythm and speed with fingers. I found most useful practicing modes instead of scales and chromatics. Just my two cents.

sharong · Post by **sharong** » Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:48 am

I totally agree with anuj..

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LeeRain · Post by **LeeRain** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:13 am

Well i don't play guitars. i really think that we don't have to playone kind of exrcise only. i will want to do little of different kind of exercises so it will not be tiring. well hope i will be able to learn them soon
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