3 Awesome Finger Exercises For Guitarists | Tim Pierce | Learn To Play | Guitar Lesson

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The great thing for me is that these exercises are so incredibly humbling they almost feel like "guitar therapy".
We enjoyed doing this so much that our hope is that we can make a regular series based on exercises.
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[@johnnyfreedom4117]

That was awesome getnts. Truly, this may be the most important lesson for anyone, and certainly for me. I am thinking one thing that could HELP replace years of reps to a degree, is amazing practice. So, let's make practice great again....

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thank you this is great. Recovering from stroke...

[@phillipasby9202]

There is a beauty in humility and a willingness to show vulnerability - particularly when an amazingly gifted artist does so... I will be working on these tonight and expect a level of incompetence that would boggle the mind - but you don't get better playing the same licks you know!

[@lynnhathaway1247]

Tim, you look like you're taking your first guitar lesson ever! Haha, this was fun to watch. Really levels the playing field!

[@javierf55]

You should see me now practicing these great exercises... Thank you for the video!!!

[@CA10Z]

I love to watch the masters struggle and stumble. ........AND LAUGH

[@gathda]

I'm on day #2 of trying the first exercise and it is already getting a bit easier. Still really tough, but I can kind of do it now. Amazing how brain plasticity and all that works!

[@marianoulibarri]

Excelent tim, you’re awesome!!!

[@duncanmathers76]

Would love to see the great one do a lesson on articulation. His playing is so fluid, amazing.

[@bobboitt3126]

Now Tim knows how I feel every day...lol

[@lucasich]

hahahaha

[@cello_melow]

Is that an artist package 594? What a beauty!

[@rockandrollrabbit]

"Are you sure this is helping?" Hilarious 🤣

[@hoffy1003]

I'm in the master class. I'm looking for these exercises and, maybe pdf's showing them exactly how they're done. I'm having trouble following where the notes or patterns are. But, I can't find em' on the master class. Do they exist? PDF's or downloads would be helpful. But that's just me.

[@danioliveira8611]

Sensacional!!!

[@Songwirer]

Dropped my guitar laughing 😂

[@georgegriffith7263]

Reminds me of Steely Dan

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

2:15 lol I love that comment...

[@ADEker]

LoL overture ,my stomache hurts ! some way to get funky!

[@Guitaroverkill]

Tim should do these with Rick Neilsen. The twins lessons.

[@skobywankenobi]

It kind of looked like he was browsing /pol/ on his pc for a few mins. I'm a little disappointed it's not.

[@NickGranville]

That first exercise doesn’t make sense to me. It’s not how one would ever play. I get the economy of motion but this isn’t really that either. Maybe I’m missing something?

[@jerrywestaway9316]

Are You Sure This Is Healthy :-)

[@drothberg3]

Tim proved that these exercises are not required for being a great guitarist!

[@srh361]

I was thinking the exact same thing! Some exercises are point less.

[@solocam1962]

Tim is so real! As great a musician as he is, he really shines here. THANKS Tim for your YT vids and the lessons that I have purchased! You absolutely have inspired and helped me.

[@XR650L_GUY]

I love stoned guitar players.

[@kenlee5015]

At 56, my fingers are saying FU to re-training. Wish I had some instruction when I was young.

[@davidrobinson5928]

I second that emotion !!!!

[@Jekylnhyde55]

Pebber Brown utilizes some of these type exercises (spider, etc) in his teaching methods. Even when you've been playing for 40-50 years it can drive you nuts because of existing muscle memory...

[@patrickfoster4586]

Any exercise that makes Tim sound like a beginner has got to be tough!

[@jorgegvb]

Nice to see even the most experienced players struggling with a basic exercise. Shows we are all human and have much to learns no matter what level we are at. Enjoyed the lesson!

[@vazkenkouftaian3252]

🎉

[@joeurbanowski321]

Hey guys.! Don’t quit your day jobs 🤣

[@colinerrington9187]

I can't stop laughing, Tim is hilarious...love it!!

[@MWright95186]

lol!!! good to know that awesome pro players have a hard time on some stuff too!!!lol kinda sounds like Steele Dan on a REALLY bad day... lol? ;) M

[@crisbochguitar]

My guitar teacher introduced the first exercise to me almost 30 years ago and named it "spaccadita", that literally means "fingersbreaker" 😃

[@danielweeks3723]

I shouldn't have burned my guitar after hearing Tim's Crossroads solo. Instead I should have waited til I heard this one and burned Tim's guitar.

[@jasonring5231]

Haha!

[@johncuster3833]

Watching Tim talk to his fingers "stay down, stay down" is comical. Not only is he a Great musician and teacher, but he's such a humble person.

[@reggiebellamy7112]

...now I don't feel so bad...(yes I do)!

[@teaheadQ]

4.45 reveals Tim’s commemorative Hitler portrait rug.

[@ragingchimera8021]

Haha, playing is easier when you can just let the muscle memory fly! Humbling indeed.

[@tekannon7803]

Dear Mr Pierce, I would like to thank you for your solo guitar teaching for the J Hendrix video cast. What a kind and generous person you are to give so much of yourself to the world. Your clear steps and excellent teaching technique have shown me a new world: the lead guitar. Thanks to you I have been given the keys to enter electric lady land. Jimi turned us on to a style of guitar that lives on, and you have shown us the way to play like him. Your playing is fabulous as well.

[@ROONTANG]

Awesome! I played through the exercises with you guys, and man, you can really feel that tension in your lower arm.

[@saknut]

LOL...That was fun to watch and some of it sounds amazingly similar to sounds that come out of my guitars.

[@ChristosLouridas]

I really enjoy your vids Tim also that's an awesome studio you got. Keep these up. Hi from Greece. First try on my SG and on the D string I lift everything up trololol. Nice fail xD

[@metalmick]

If Tim can find this challenging, then there's hope for crappy me yet.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

This is what Tim was probably like when he first learnt guitar as a baby or as a young kid.

[@LordFingers1]

metal micky - have you seen tim play? that dude cuts it so strict, he is obviously being nice to the kid pretending its hard for him. he could literally do those exercises on a two by four with bass strings, with his eyes closed, with tape around the joints of his fingers to impede movement, and tim would just laugh as he effortlessly plowed through those exercises. this guy, who has played on every big album ever, whether it be lead or rhythm, doesn't struggle with anything, for he is the six string slayer, the guru of guitar, the master of movement, and the greatest by far: he is tim!

[@metalmick]

That's it then. My LP shall become kindling and i shall take up the triangle!

[@brettweber6132]

Guys that was so funny!! LOL I'm so Psyched out even just watching you guys do these that I can't even walk over and pick up my guitar, fearing my mind will explode.

[@anthonydinardo5334]

LOL..!! I was literally cracking up! It's so funny seeing a guitarist who can obviously play like anything spot on, struggle with a finger exercise! Not that these exercises are easy . I'm gonna go grab the guitar & see how bad I butcher these exercises. Then I'll just play some Jeff Beck material. LOL!! I think that kinda sounded like sarcasm but it really wasn't. Love the videos brother, I always take away something from all of your experience. Even if it's some session stories, they're as entertaining or better than a new technique,etc....... Thanks for sharing.... ✌️

[@pwnEdge1]

That first one is tricky ,like some guys ,you said as I was typing hardy look like there moving there fingers lol. I think I heard you say fing G :-). I know there was a C in front of it . Love you vids

[@six_rabbits]

All the same, it's like Bootsy Collins said: 'If I had your hands, I'd throw mine away.'

[@mpogze8020]

These are great! Wow, they are tough!!! The third exercise reminds me of some fingering exercises on piano when I was young.

[@L.Scott_Music]

I think this guy has made you feel young again. Not a bad feeling is it?

[@josephsliger3308]

I used to do these in the early 80s. I'm sure I didn't invent it. But then again maybe I did. The idea is to create evenness, strength, technique conviction and playing clean.

[@davidfriesen7748]

You guys are Hilarious ! You really make up Us wannabe's feel good !?! 🎸

[@macleanclassics]

Tim, you are actually human.... lol. Great to watch an all time great player try something unfamiliar... We normally just get to se the results of your playing, but this reminds us all of the hard work and practice required to get there.

[@silentmajority5999]

I don’t agree with tat exercise…. It pons all your fingers down and doesn’t allow for flexibility

[@dannyhayden1170]

How could anyone give this a thumbs down????!!! Timmy is the greatest ever! This was fun and something to work on

[@phillippehrson4908]

Love the Guild in the beginning.

[@mk8530]

All I want to know is that opening lick. LOL.

[@jordimartinez]

Thanks for the interesting ideas, guys...!

[@thegolfnut812]

Love what you did with the modes. Great learning tool and practice. Then at 7:11 this is genius. Thanks Tim

[@mikiegood]

Love that Guild Tim. It sounds killer

[@rogerwilliams4742]

These exercises are sure to improve mental and physical dexterity. Thanks guys!

[@jrwojick]

Spider scales kill me...my fingers will not behave hahah

[@Whodidthis12345]

Sounds like robert fripp

[@robgoodson2212]

I Saw Chet Atkins giving this kind of lesson quite a few years ago. Struggled then and now!

[@alainbrasseur7083]

exercise = boring? NO, make it FUN! that's the lesson here.

[@jerrymckenzie6205]

2:16 does this really help?? hahahaha

[@lindataylormusic]

Terrific exercises and very revealing (uh-oh)

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Recovering from stroke. This is great.

[@Aniki82]

Thank you for your energy and everything you give to us Tim, This is very precious !

[@AdamGotheridge]

You had me at .02 and the guild guitar. :)

[@borni8243]

Was zeigt mir das? Wenn ein Tim Pierce die Übungen nicht einfach so aus dem Ärmel schüttelt, scheint es sich um nicht brauchbare Fingerübungen zu handeln 😉😉😉😉😉

[@wenzwenzel2529]

Nice. My hand is angry and it's good.

[@jerrywestaway9316]

Must Be Nice To Have Guitars As Nice As Those .

[@robbiegarnz7732]

I could never see why these exercise were stressed so much. It was almost like you couldn’t learn anything else until you mastered them. I wonder how many people quit guitar because they never got these down.

[@jimsmith4611]

excellent enjoyed the humour

[@chriscarroll2330]

Tricky fingers

[@robertfrederick4714]

Look at all those 🎸

[@silentguitarist8250]

Prs🔥🔥

[@WickBeavers]

Drives me crazy just watching. Then I figure I've gone off the deep end when I consider what the hell I AM watching!

[@Aniki82]

Yeah one of the "trick" is unplugged in front of tv or whatever ahah But yes this is a nightmare for the girlfriend too xD

[@bobankr]

Yes! My sentiments exactly. Love seeing these talented pros struggle to master their fingers too.

[@ianforsyth6513]

Hahaha lots of fun

[@bjm9650]

Killer!! TU

[@RobertSaxy]

I had a teacher tell me once if you sound good when you practice then your not really practicing, in other words work on the stuff that needs work

[@Larrymh07]

According to Howard Roberts and Chet Atkins you're correct! 👍😄

[@danielweeks3723]

Steely Dan?

[@liferelation]

The first exercise does not help you use less energy. Its only a warm up exercise. Your progressively using more energy as you go up the fret board on each string fretting (pressing four frets at once 12 times and only playing one note with the pinky. That's a lot of wasted energy to hear one note played. Unless of course, your warming up.

[@hochha]

Check out Eric Johnson in the early eighties playing lead GTR for Carol King, some of this is clearly used on her "One to One" single. Eric was a monster back then too.

[@joelandrew84]

This is my fav video by far. 😂 I feel like I want to do these exercises as much as I want to have never seen them 😂 It made me so happy to hear y'all laugh so much.

[@KyleEngen1]

As the hobbits humanize Elven history, so Tim Pierce helps us accept imperfection on the path forward. Loved this all the way through.

[@kdcyp]

Great fun! But the most surprising thing to me, I never knew James Cordon could play!

[@ericruddphotography]

Another, even trickier version of this is.....for those fingers at rest...have them rest on the string but NOT fret the note beneath. Talk about crazy-making.

[@donindri]

Pretty sure that the ring and middle fingers share a tendon, that’s why these kind of exercises are so difficult. (And funny to watch)

[@MeanMaoriMean555]

I love this video! Weirdly enough - It makes me take guitaring more seriously! 😆👍

[@chrisjelley6899]

always great useable stuff. love the clunkers and all Thanks Tim you always make me want to grab a 🎸

[@tunaficiency]

Feels very relevant to doing pieces like Granada were you have to play melody but also hold a chord down. I’ll be adding these to my practice cheers

[@speediegonzales]

You should invite kiko loureiro...he is one of the first I saw teaching this spider thing...nice video!

[@jdb62]

That last exercise will give you those Allan Holdsworth hands.

[@speediegonzales]

It would be nice either to see you playing power rangers theme again...😉!

[@littlerhodyguitar2169]

Wow that was hilarious I suddenly don't feel like I have a chance to be a better player. Thanks

[@TheJeffcurran]

I trashed the first exercise right out of the gate. Easier seen than done. LOL.

[@michaelvarney.]

Tim is revisiting how his first day of guitar playing felt!

[@toninhotattooarte8769]

Tim voce nao consegue fazer o exercicio kkkkk e o rapaz nao deve tocar quanto voce...e aí????

[@jefferylord3068]

was the 2nd guitar tim played a prs?

[@gottastayfocused]

You guys are wonderful!!