A short YouTube guitar lesson by Lauren Bateman (Spider Exercise Part 2) teaching an extension of the spider finger-dexterity pattern that moves up and down the guitar neck. Instruction covers starting at the first fret (or higher if needed), sliding to the 5th fret when using the pinky, advancing the starting fret after each pass (ending on the 2nd fret, then 3rd, etc.), and practical tips such as using a metronome and being limited by a guitar's cutaway.
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Hey, everybody. How's it going? We're at part two of our little spider exercise here. And now what we're going to be doing is we're going to be moving up and down the neck of the guitar. So if you haven't watched part one to find out what that pattern is for the exercise, then go check out part one, then come back here. Make sure you got that first before you start doing this, because this is a little bit more. A little bit more difficult since we're going to be moving up and down the neck. So what we're going to do here is we're going to start at the first fret. And for those of you, Again, if the 1, 2, 3, 4 stretch is a little bit too much, you could start a little higher. But I would go back and do some of those. Make sure you're doing the 1, 2, 3 exercises and some of your stretching exercises to get those hands so that you know you can stretch out a little bit more. So we're going to start at one, and we're going to move through our exercise, same pattern.
When we get to the pinky at the top, we're going to slide down to five and then go backwards.
So when you come back, you shouldn't end on the first fret. You should end on the second fret. Now, when you get back to the bottom, slide up another fret. So you're going to go three.
When you get up here to the pinky, slide forward.
Now we're at the fourth fret. So you see, slowly we're moving up the neck of the guitar. And then we're going to want to move backwards back down the fret of the guitar. So again, if you don't have that stretch in your fingers yet, you can start at the fifth fret, which is where part one of the video starts, and then you can move up. Depending. If you don't have a cutaway on your guitar, you're going to be limited to how far up you can move, but, you know, move all the way up. Come back down to the fifth fret again. Doing this with a metronome is good so that you're getting a nice.
And remember to use up, down, picking. Alternate picking. Down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. So you should never do two downs in a rush and never be down, down, or up, up. Always make sure it's down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up with your pick. And that's it for this exercise. Not too bad. A little bit more movement than part one, but work with this again, write down your metronome speeds, work with this, get it to go a little faster, and eventually you'll be able to do it really well. And your hands, by the end of this, should be feeling pretty good. So that's the end of this lesson. Hope you guys enjoyed it, and I will see you soon.
