Author(s): Mark Phillips; Jon Chappell

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• Build strength and consistency as you play


• Practice with warm-ups, scales, arpeggios, and chords


• Play full-length pieces and songs

Sharpen your guitar-playing skills

This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises with scales to arpeggios, chords, and more. Brush up on guitar notation, wake up your fingers, and develop strength, speed, and dexterity. With more than 300 exercises in various keys, drills to perfect your playing, tips to maximize your practice time, and performance pieces to test your expanding skills, you'll be strumming the strings like a pro in no time.

Inside...

• A review of the fundamentals


• How to release tension and improve breathing


• Technique building exercises


• Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords


• Ways to improve your musicianship