Hey Justin. dunno if you're ever gonna see this, but I just want to say thank you. Your lessons have been a big help. I was born with Cerebral Palsy and it made what would be my dominate right side very weak and stiff. It's because of that I never picked up guitar as a kid but always wanted too, I just never thought I could. But I realized as I got older that life is too short to not at least try and do what you love. So for my 20th birthday I got a guitar and an amp and have been playing like a madman. It's been so fun and I have you to thank as a big part of that. I may not be able to play as well as others but I've already made more progress than I ever thought I could and it's thanks to you and all the great resources out there that I'm able to play like I've always wanted.
I almost had my left hand amputated because I broke my ulna in three places and my radius looked like a shattered eggshell. Tore all tendons and ligaments and my arm flapped back and forth like in Harry Potter when the bones disappeared and his arms were rubber. I was gifted a birthday guitar one month later. Needless to say I couldn’t play it. But thanks to Justin I’ve come a long way. Especially enjoyed the blues licks.
I've been doing this half an hour a day for a month and noticed a DRAMATIC improvement in every aspect of my playing. Especially when isolating and focusing on the weaker fingers. I know it's not musical. I know it's boring. I know it's time-consuming. JUST DO IT! :)
If justin is saving you a lot of money, don't forget the honour system, either by donating or buying he's products, he's a great lad and deserves it from us.
Thank You. I lost half of my left thumb in the early seventies, and struggled back from that with a VERY weak left hand. More recently, I required two tendon replacement operations on that same hand - I couldn't move my second or third fingers AT ALL. The usual physical therapy exercises don't (and couldn't) begin to address the dexterity required to play a musical instrument. In the first three minutes of this exercise, I was already feeling 'the burn'. These hammers and pull offs will definitely do more to get my hand back into playing form than anything I have managed to devised myself.
Nice to see the old Finger Gym lesson redone in HD! In my opinion this is one of the best guitar exercises available, and I have only seen Justin teach it. This exercise makes your fingers burn and make them really strong and independent! I have been using it for years! Believe me, for strong and independent fingers, this is the lesson you want to use!
Hammerings: 1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 1-3, 2-4, 1-4 Flick offs: 2-1, 3-2, 4-3, 3-1, 4-2 Triplet hammerings: 1-2-3, 2-3-4, 1-2-4, 1-3-4 4’s hammerings: 1-2-3-4 Do the triplets as flick offs: 2-3-1, 4-3-2, 4-2-1, 4-3-1 4’s flick offs: 4-3-2-1 Thanks for the exercise Justin! Very useful, although I’m sure I will come to dread it (and especially my pinky) :)
Dear Justin, I've watched quite a lot of your videos and read all the comment sections, but not sure I've ever commented myself, so just wanted to say a big thank you! You rock, and are such a great teacher!
I've only done the 1st half of these exercises, & the very next day, I couldn't believe the change in my ring & pinky finger strength! These exercises, are now my warm-up for playing guitar. I'm gonna watch the rest today! Good stuff & thank you!
It's been a decade since I last played guitar and my hand strength and dexterity have been shot. I can't do what I used to be able to do and I've been looking for good exercises to get that all back. I've never heard of this exercise before and I'm excited to keep going at it. Thanks, Justin!
I've been doing these exercises for a week now, and I already feel the muscle memory getting better + some strength being built incrementally. Thank you for posting this, Justin! 😁
Been playing for a few months now and just came across this exercise today, and WOW! What a burn. This will definitely become a staple of my ever evolving daily practice routine. Thank you Justin!
This will really help me as my hand is missing a digit. This will really help give my hand a good work out and push me to engage my pinky finger a lot more. Thanks Justin👍
Thanks Justin!! Tried this for the first time today, looking forward to practising more even if my forearm is sore! I've discovered some muscles I didn't know I had :)
Great exercises. I learned them from a Jazz guitarist back in the mid-1960's. I begin with the 12th fret and work back to the 1st fret. Every day for the last 55 years. It really helps to maintain finger independence, strength, and muscle memory.
Needed some tapping exercises for my left hand. My goal with this exercise will be to play "Rob Scallon - For that second". After just one round I can already feel the improvement. Thanks Justin ;)
8 month beginner. got given a acoustic a few months ago and i've been super patient taking it easy to build strength for the acoustic and although its gotten a bit easier, i'm still struggling. hope this exercises helps :)
Haha. I never realized (in 2 weeks of recent Justin practice) and years of fiddling around that my pinky and ring finger are as one in my brain. What a cool exercise. I hope I can train my mind to control these two separately!!!
I was told at an early stage to play my open G chord using my middle and ring fingers on the 5 and 6 string (top) and my pinkie on the 1st string. This allowed me to build independence in the pinkie. Both forms of Open G are correct, depending on your needs for the various flavors of G in a song, but that one tip really helped with separating my pinkie from my ring finger. I can now do the 3 finger salute using my ring finger... and bend my pinkie separately from the rest of my fingers when they are pointing straight (ring finger stays straight with the rest) .
Ooft, this is incredible. It takes me back to my early days of technical work on the piano a million years ago - hard work but SO worth it. And here I was thinking guitar would just be a fun new instrument to learn as a hobby :D.
Great lesson Justin, I am always doing Finger Gym in different formats but this is good doing the power Notes and Pull Offs and making sure the thumb is where it should be behind the fret Board. I often do this in front of the TV so that I always have a guitar with me..I'm one of your customers and will be buying some stuff shortly..Happy New Year 2019 to you and family..
I need a lot of work on 1 & 4 . Can’t do them in the correct fret. But I didn’t think I’d ever reach 3 frets & I have. I have faith these little hands will stretch more!
If people want further excersizes if they get bored of these ones and want a few variations, look up Aaron Shearer classical guitar excersizes. They are the ones that I use at my uni, but he has hundreds of these published in heaps of places and I'm sure you can find some tutorials on them on youtube.
This is by far the best finger workout I´ve found, I can really feel the tendons in my wrist all worked up and it feels SOOOO GOOOD. Thought I used my pinky enough, tried to hammer on, horrible result, keept trying SLOWLY with your video going on in the background and made improvement in 5 minutes. Wow, thank you
Excellent! thanks Justin. Yes, it is to some extent it is similar to lifting. Pace and weight/pressure is a determination of the result. quick pace increase the endurance of the muscle groups and how long ypu can play. While weight/pressure increases the amount of time you can hold a specific chord/note/position without a exhausted or fatigued feeling. As Justin said you won't get anything from a strength exercise if you go faster then waht your supposed to. Apologies my scientific mind got the better of me....😊
This is great! Thank you so much 🙏. I’m a relatively new learner and my hand is small. I want to play the blues but I can only stretch from my index to my pinky 4 frets. I think this will help me a lot. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵🩵
I am 48 and playing guitar for more than 6 years now with exercises for fingers. This exercise is worthwhile to give strength to my pinky only, my all other fingers are already strong enough with other exercises. Good work Justin! But ask your viewers to keep fingernails trimmed like you. Most of the times even a bit of too much fingernails will ruin this exercise and people will be guessing what went wrong!
I'll be truthful that I thought this exercise was a little bullshit at first. but after a week of doing it to see if it would help in anyway, I went from my pinky being locked straight to being able to bend freely (though not accurately), I think another week and I'll have almost complete control over it, thanks Justin, don't know why I doubted you!
Damn when i was 13 trying to learn playing guitar. my dad learned me this exercise because my finger tips couldnt reach the highest snare. Now 9 years later im gonna try to learn playing again ;)
Justin you're a Prince dude. Thanks from the U.S. of A, and just know that your efforts to share your knowledge and experience of playing the guitar is definitely not in vain. ✌🏻🇺🇸
A great excersice. I want to ask something regarding to this excersice. If it's too hard to do all the combination fingers,will it effectively to do each combination for couple of days or the recommendation is to to it as it is. Well I did it and I felt like I did excersice at the gym 🏋️♂️ 💪 😅 Thanks anyway for sharing this excersice
I was so confused about the flick-off exercise on how to pull-off and not play the adjacent note - But it suddenly occurred to me that Justin might be actually muting the adjacent strings with one of his other fingers!!
Great exercises! I've been playing for over 50 years and this is so useful! Yes, as others have alluded below, the pinky is the weak link. Any ideas or specific vitamins that will beef the little guy up? I guess these exercises will help. Thanks for the video. You got a new subscriber! Can't wait to see your other videos!
Can you please show the back of your hand for reference to see the position of thumb also can you show one side angle too. Would be really great for us to learn.
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After practicing for a few days I really improved. I noticed yesterday while driving I could give a guy the finger with 3 different fingers.
doowoppify hahaha!!
He must have been so confused :D
Lolllll
Wtf😂😂😂
This is especially funny because Justin often calls the middle finger the driving finger.
Hey Justin. dunno if you're ever gonna see this, but I just want to say thank you. Your lessons have been a big help. I was born with Cerebral Palsy and it made what would be my dominate right side very weak and stiff. It's because of that I never picked up guitar as a kid but always wanted too, I just never thought I could. But I realized as I got older that life is too short to not at least try and do what you love. So for my 20th birthday I got a guitar and an amp and have been playing like a madman. It's been so fun and I have you to thank as a big part of that. I may not be able to play as well as others but I've already made more progress than I ever thought I could and it's thanks to you and all the great resources out there that I'm able to play like I've always wanted.
what a great thing to write! I'm happy for you, I'm on a journey to improve my guitar and i'm 70...
I almost had my left hand amputated because I broke my ulna in three places and my radius looked like a shattered eggshell. Tore all tendons and ligaments and my arm flapped back and forth like in Harry Potter when the bones disappeared and his arms were rubber. I was gifted a birthday guitar one month later. Needless to say I couldn’t play it. But thanks to Justin I’ve come a long way. Especially enjoyed the blues licks.
I've been doing this half an hour a day for a month and noticed a DRAMATIC improvement in every aspect of my playing. Especially when isolating and focusing on the weaker fingers.
I know it's not musical. I know it's boring. I know it's time-consuming.
JUST DO IT! :)
I dont mind doing it, but i only just started playing guitar so. Might get bored
+fatfrankblack whoa half an hour, no signs of overtraining?
fatfrankblack Thanks for the reinforcement. I am glad to hear that it has helped you as well!
well here i am a year later and i definitely have stopped practicing and i am hardly improving. fuck you spam you lazy shit
Half an hour - ouch. I'll stick with 5-10 mins and be happy with my mediocrity
If justin is saving you a lot of money, don't forget the honour system, either by donating or buying he's products, he's a great lad and deserves it from us.
true. I am definitely going to donate when I am through college. Really appreciate the work he does for us.
I agree, is that a liberty cap on justins arm, the tattoo?
i think its a broken arrow but culd be a shroom?
As soon as I become financially independent, which could be in about a year, I will DEFINITELY donate and buy some stuff from his shop! 🤘
Tom Thomas I thought so too lol - it's an arrow, check 5:50
*Finger sequence in this lesson, starting from 1st thread*
12, 23, 34
13, 24 , 14
Flick off: 21, 32, 43, 31, 42, 41
Then
123, 234, 124, 134
1234
Flick off: 321, 432, 421, 431
4321
Thank You.
I lost half of my left thumb in the early seventies, and struggled back from that with a VERY weak left hand. More recently, I required two tendon replacement operations on that same hand - I couldn't move my second or third fingers AT ALL. The usual physical therapy exercises don't (and couldn't) begin to address the dexterity required to play a musical instrument.
In the first three minutes of this exercise, I was already feeling 'the burn'. These hammers and pull offs will definitely do more to get my hand back into playing form than anything I have managed to devised myself.
Are you playing now?
Yo give us an update! Hope you’re doing better and playing like a madman
Michael J Conway Are you playing better now?
Nice to see the old Finger Gym lesson redone in HD! In my opinion this is one of the best guitar exercises available, and I have only seen Justin teach it. This exercise makes your fingers burn and make them really strong and independent! I have been using it for years! Believe me, for strong and independent fingers, this is the lesson you want to use!
rhi
nice
Hammerings:
1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 1-3, 2-4, 1-4
Flick offs:
2-1, 3-2, 4-3, 3-1, 4-2
Triplet hammerings:
1-2-3, 2-3-4, 1-2-4, 1-3-4
4’s hammerings:
1-2-3-4
Do the triplets as flick offs:
2-3-1, 4-3-2, 4-2-1, 4-3-1
4’s flick offs:
4-3-2-1
Thanks for the exercise Justin! Very useful, although I’m sure I will come to dread it (and especially my pinky) :)
this man makes it looks so easy
Dear Justin, I've watched quite a lot of your videos and read all the comment sections, but not sure I've ever commented myself, so just wanted to say a big thank you! You rock, and are such a great teacher!
I've only done the 1st half of these exercises, & the very next day, I couldn't believe the change in my ring & pinky finger strength! These exercises, are now my warm-up for playing guitar. I'm gonna watch the rest today! Good stuff & thank you!
"The finger gym" was also my nickname in college.
I'll bet your nose was clean
Silly lol
😁
@Prophetorium 😂
Ane koi dibi toi
I want to thank you for teaching me a lot than i care to remember.
Thank you .
You are the greatest teacher ever.
It's been a decade since I last played guitar and my hand strength and dexterity have been shot. I can't do what I used to be able to do and I've been looking for good exercises to get that all back. I've never heard of this exercise before and I'm excited to keep going at it. Thanks, Justin!
This kind of exercises come in really handy. Even for changing chords, as you develope your fingers' independence. Totally recommendable.
been doing it for about 2 weeks and noticed some improvement. hammer on's are a lot easier than flick offs.
absolutely beneficial ... guys don't rush to play before mastering these basic exercises ... thank you Justin
wow, I am learning real quick, my pinky is in need of serious work
I've been doing these exercises for a week now, and I already feel the muscle memory getting better + some strength being built incrementally.
Thank you for posting this, Justin! 😁
Whats your situation right now?
@@isaozturk2107 I wish I kept up with this practice. Unfortunately, it's slipped off. Are you keeping up with this practice?
Been playing for a few months now and just came across this exercise today, and WOW! What a burn. This will definitely become a staple of my ever evolving daily practice routine. Thank you Justin!
He is literally the best coach!!! I'm so excited to learn from him🙌❤
If you having trouble doing the spider walk this was help alot
This will really help me as my hand is missing a digit. This will really help give my hand a good work out and push me to engage my pinky finger a lot more. Thanks Justin👍
Justin, this is exactly what I needed! Thanks for sharing this technique routine with us! I think this will help me a lot overtime.
I have been playing fity years I wish I had know this years ago . It really does help me !😀
I tried it and it really does work. I can now play Nothing Else Matters (Metallica) in an ok fashion without wincing in the bar chord section.
that guitar is beautiful. thanks for sharing these great exercises.
Thanks Justin!! Tried this for the first time today, looking forward to practising more even if my forearm is sore! I've discovered some muscles I didn't know I had :)
Great exercises. I learned them from a Jazz guitarist back in the mid-1960's. I begin with the 12th fret and work back to the 1st fret. Every day for the last 55 years. It really helps to maintain finger independence, strength, and muscle memory.
Thanks!
Thanks for the thanks 😊
You're an inspiration sir.🙏🙏🙏🙏. I will never forget how much you have contributed to learners. Always in your support.🙏🙏🙏
Needed some tapping exercises for my left hand. My goal with this exercise will be to play "Rob Scallon - For that second". After just one round I can already feel the improvement. Thanks Justin ;)
8 month beginner. got given a acoustic a few months ago and i've been super patient taking it easy to build strength for the acoustic and although its gotten a bit easier, i'm still struggling. hope this exercises helps :)
I’m gonna do this when I get tired of practicing chords..I just started learning a few days ago
Grazie.
Many thanks for the Super Thanks. It is much appreciated 😊
This one of the BEST exercises for me ive found that works on most of my problem areas! Thanks so much!!!
Great drill. Like you said Justin, the magic is in the slowness of the exercise. Felt a big change after doing it for 3 days. Thanks ! ! !
Glad it's helping.
Cheers 😊
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...I got a roofing job for a while....and it helped my guitar playing a lot...
Haha. I never realized (in 2 weeks of recent Justin practice) and years of fiddling around that my pinky and ring finger are as one in my brain. What a cool exercise. I hope I can train my mind to control these two separately!!!
I was told at an early stage to play my open G chord using my middle and ring fingers on the 5 and 6 string (top) and my pinkie on the 1st string. This allowed me to build independence in the pinkie. Both forms of Open G are correct, depending on your needs for the various flavors of G in a song, but that one tip really helped with separating my pinkie from my ring finger. I can now do the 3 finger salute using my ring finger... and bend my pinkie separately from the rest of my fingers when they are pointing straight (ring finger stays straight with the rest) .
I feel the burn, bro. LoL
Ooft, this is incredible. It takes me back to my early days of technical work on the piano a million years ago - hard work but SO worth it. And here I was thinking guitar would just be a fun new instrument to learn as a hobby :D.
Justin should at least put an ad on these videos.... he's one of those youtubers whome I wouldn't mind watching an ad for....
Thanks Justin. It’s perfect what I’m looking for. Though, it’s a hell of challenging but I’m enjoying it. Keep it up boy.
Wow this exercise is kicking my butt. Thank you.
How long did it take till you guys saw progress? I did it the first time today and my Fingers are super weak - il do this daily now!
Justin, your video beginner course is helping me, and your music theory course is great
Thank you so much! this is so hard for me, especially on my fingers 3 and 4. I'm excited to watch my progress.
this has really, REALLY improved my accuracy. seriously people, you will see improvements in just a few days
U still playing guitar 4 years later?
My ring finger always wants to cling to my second finger.
This excercise is def. helping, though. Sometimes, simplicity is best.
Great lesson Justin, I am always doing Finger Gym in different formats but this is good doing the power Notes and Pull Offs and making sure the thumb is where it should be behind the fret Board. I often do this in front of the TV so that I always have a guitar with me..I'm one of your customers and will be buying some stuff shortly..Happy New Year 2019 to you and family..
pinky no like that
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Im just checking if theres really no one replied to this 7y and 300 likes comment lol
This was so helpful. Thanks
Thank you...God Bless you..
Awesome so excited to try this just what I needed thank u
never knew that my innocent pinky could piss me off so hard
yeah sometimes when I'm frustrated i literally want to snap it off!!!!!
😁😁😁😁😁
Thanks Justin! You are the man!
This just what I needed! My hammer-ons sound so wimpy. Thanks!
Excellent exercise, Justin. Thank you for this.
Will certainly be giving this a go, thanks Justin.
man i love you justin, thank you
I need a lot of work on 1 & 4 . Can’t do them in the correct fret. But I didn’t think I’d ever reach 3 frets & I have. I have faith these little hands will stretch more!
These lessons are great. Thanks Norm Macdonald.
Kieran Hogan I don’t understand this comment
Kieran Hogan but I like it very much
@@yesindeed5608 Justin resembles Norm Macdonald just a bit.
this is something i was looking for.
great job
If people want further excersizes if they get bored of these ones and want a few variations, look up Aaron Shearer classical guitar excersizes. They are the ones that I use at my uni, but he has hundreds of these published in heaps of places and I'm sure you can find some tutorials on them on youtube.
Thanks Justin for sharing convenient information.. Keep it up dear.. Thanks again
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
This is by far the best finger workout I´ve found, I can really feel the tendons in my wrist all worked up and it feels SOOOO GOOOD. Thought I used my pinky enough, tried to hammer on, horrible result, keept trying SLOWLY with your video going on in the background and made improvement in 5 minutes. Wow, thank you
Excellent! thanks Justin.
Yes, it is to some extent it is similar to lifting. Pace and weight/pressure is a determination of the result. quick pace increase the endurance of the muscle groups and how long ypu can play. While weight/pressure increases the amount of time you can hold a specific chord/note/position without a exhausted or fatigued feeling. As Justin said you won't get anything from a strength exercise if you go faster then waht your supposed to.
Apologies my scientific mind got the better of me....😊
you can feel the muscle pump after. thanks
awesome advice for fingers, thank you!
You should add the 1 and 5 stretch to the list. Also add 1-3-5 to the triplets. Nice add for practicing hammer-ons and pull-offs otherwise.
This is great! Thank you so much 🙏. I’m a relatively new learner and my hand is small. I want to play the blues but I can only stretch from my index to my pinky 4 frets. I think this will help me a lot. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵🩵
I am 48 and playing guitar for more than 6 years now with exercises for fingers. This exercise is worthwhile to give strength to my pinky only, my all other fingers are already strong enough with other exercises. Good work Justin! But ask your viewers to keep fingernails trimmed like you. Most of the times even a bit of too much fingernails will ruin this exercise and people will be guessing what went wrong!
I'll be truthful that I thought this exercise was a little bullshit at first. but after a week of doing it to see if it would help in anyway, I went from my pinky being locked straight to being able to bend freely (though not accurately), I think another week and I'll have almost complete control over it, thanks Justin, don't know why I doubted you!
Damn when i was 13 trying to learn playing guitar. my dad learned me this exercise because my finger tips couldnt reach the highest snare. Now 9 years later im gonna try to learn playing again ;)
Taught*
Impressive!
Brilliant video.
Thank you! Finally someone I understand :)
Very well done, thanks for sharing it.
Excellent exercise
my hand feels super fly, thanx!
OBRIGADO PELAS DICAS
Justin you're a Prince dude. Thanks from the U.S. of A, and just know that your efforts to share your knowledge and experience of playing the guitar is definitely not in vain. ✌🏻🇺🇸
Good daily exercise lad. Subscribed!
Thank you Justin Really helpful
Great video Justin! Couldn't do the the flick off's with my pinky and third finger....hoping I will someday :)
A great excersice.
I want to ask something regarding to this excersice.
If it's too hard to do all the combination fingers,will it effectively to do each combination for couple of days or the recommendation is to to it as it is.
Well I did it and I felt like I did excersice at the gym 🏋️♂️ 💪 😅
Thanks anyway for sharing this excersice
It really helps me a lot my gf is so happy because mg finger performs well. Stronger than it was before.
Kyle bruh😂😂😂
it is like learning how to play the guitar without your right hand :-)
I was so confused about the flick-off exercise on how to pull-off and not play the adjacent note - But it suddenly occurred to me that Justin might be actually muting the adjacent strings with one of his other fingers!!
i have trouble barring chords with my pinky finger and ring finger so ill be practicing this method
3:07 workout starts
Watch the whole thing,it's important
Tiktok brain lol
Justin your remarkable thanks
Thank you Justin. I have trouble stretching my fingers across 4 frets. Do you have any advice for helping my fingers separate out?
Very Helpful Finger Exercise.. Thx Sir
very good video thanks i'm a beginner so this is a awsome video for me
im doing this for barre chords
Great exercises! I've been playing for over 50 years and this is so useful! Yes, as others have alluded below, the pinky is the weak link. Any ideas or specific vitamins that will beef the little guy up? I guess these exercises will help. Thanks for the video. You got a new subscriber! Can't wait to see your other videos!
A pinky workout perhaps? www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/pinky-workout-b2-907 | LievenDV | JustinGuitar Official Assistant
This is an excellent video. iv read this technique in other places but only a few of them say to do hammer on's.
Can you please show the back of your hand for reference to see the position of thumb also can you show one side angle too. Would be really great for us to learn.