Lauren Bateman presents Part 2 of her finger independence guitar exercises, demonstrating opposite-direction motion for finger pairs (1&2, 1&3, 1&4, 2&3, 2&4, 3&4). She emphasizes practicing Part 1 first, explains the up/down motion for each finger pair, and links the motion to chord transitions (e.g., C, G, D to G).
Hey, everyone, it's Lauren. I'm in my music studio and we're going to talk about part two of these finger independence exercises. Now, in the first one, if you didn't see it, I showed you to move each finger independently on its own. If you did not watch that video, I really suggest that you go and watch that first before attempting this one. Because if you can't do that exercise fluidly, you're not going to have a chance at doing this one. So now what we're going to do is we're going to do different finger combinations. So we're going to have fingers moving in opposite directions.
And you're going to do each finger. So it'll be the first and second finger, first and third finger.
All right, first and fourth.
Just like this. So we're going to do. You're going to do each combination. So it'll be the first and second finger, first and third finger, first and fourth. Then it'll be the second and third, second and fourth, and then third and fourth. So those are all your different finger combinations. And all you're doing is just moving. One finger is moving up while the other one moves down.
Again. This is really good for chords because this is an actual motion that your chords, if you go, we see our C chord, G chord, what's happening? I basically just did that motion. Here's my first finger, here's my second finger. One's going up and one's coming down.
D to G.
D to G.
So you'll see in your chord changes, this is an actual part of them. You're going to be moving your fingers in opposite directions. You're not just going to be moving one finger at a time. Sometimes you will, depending on the chord, but most of the time, you know, you're going to be moving a couple fingers up and down and all around to get those chords. So. So this is a great exercise again for building a little bit more independence between your fingers. It'll help you with your core changes, getting them a little quicker, moving those along a little faster. So I would stick with these again. You know, practice. Do about 20 for each combination. And you don't have to spend five minutes on it. A couple minutes, not too long. And if you do it once a day, say you do it as your warm up before you're going to start practicing or playing guitar, playing your songs or what have you, by the end of the first week, you're going to see a huge improvement. So this is again one of those exercises that if you stick with it doesn't require a lot of time, but if you stick with it and do it consistently, you're going to see big results. So that's it for the part two of the hand independence exercises. Hope you guys enjoyed it and I will see you soon.
