Guitar Gym: Power Chord Workouts
Power chord exercises to take your playing to the next level.
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In this edition of Guitar Gym, Chris Buono focuses on developing your power chording technique with an emphasis on clean & clear chord changing, timing, focus and endurance. Buono will guide you through 27 Workouts across 3 levels. Level 1 will establish a solid foundation through common low string set two-note voicings with Workouts ranging from 40 BPM to 100 BPM. In Level 2 three-note voicings are put into the mix along with all other string set possibilities while the tempos increase to 50 BPM through 110 BPM. Level 3 Workouts push you to extremes with more challenging movements both vertically and horizontally as you play the established two- and three-note voicing approaches at a tempo range of 60 BPM and 120 BPM.
Each Guitar Gym course focuses on a specific guitar technique by guiding the student through a deliberately prescribed series of optimized workouts, organized across a series of levels with increasing intensity. Buono demonstrates each of the workouts by explaining how the workout is engineered and then showing you how to play the workout correctly.
The workouts are ALL interactive video playalongs -- Buono performs each workout with you, for the correct amount of time, at all of the prescribed tempos. You will not be alone in the shed!
All of the workouts also include text guides, PDF charts, Guitar Pro files and all of the practice metronome tracks, at all of the prescribed tempos. Everything you need to develop monster chops by practicing correctly is included.
Practice does NOT make perfect -- "perfect" practice does. We've heard this time and again from our instructors and we get it; practice the wrong thing, or practice the wrong way, and you'll learn how to play it perfectly wrong. Makes "perfect" sense but what exactly do we practice, and how specifically do we practice it? TrueFire's resident Professor of the Deep, Chris Buono has invested the last couple of decades coming up with the answer.
Developing solid guitar techniques is particularly subject to the quality and intensity of your practice regimens -- you'll only get so far relying on repetition and frequency alone. Chris Buono's Guitar Gym workouts will take you the rest of the way with 12 collections of tried, tested and proven intensive workouts for Triad Arpeggios, Tapping, Hybrid Picking, Alternate Picking, Hammers & Pull-Offs, Power Chords, Scales, Speed Picking,Triads, Harmonic Minor Triad Chord Scales, Major Triad Chord Scales and Melodic Minor Triad Chord Scales
Guitar Gym -- your path to "perfect" chops!
Each Guitar Gym course focuses on a specific guitar technique by guiding the student through a deliberately prescribed series of optimized workouts, organized across a series of levels with increasing intensity. Buono demonstrates each of the workouts by explaining how the workout is engineered and then showing you how to play the workout correctly.
The workouts are ALL interactive video playalongs -- Buono performs each workout with you, for the correct amount of time, at all of the prescribed tempos. You will not be alone in the shed!
All of the workouts also include text guides, PDF charts, Guitar Pro files and all of the practice metronome tracks, at all of the prescribed tempos. Everything you need to develop monster chops by practicing correctly is included.
Practice does NOT make perfect -- "perfect" practice does. We've heard this time and again from our instructors and we get it; practice the wrong thing, or practice the wrong way, and you'll learn how to play it perfectly wrong. Makes "perfect" sense but what exactly do we practice, and how specifically do we practice it? TrueFire's resident Professor of the Deep, Chris Buono has invested the last couple of decades coming up with the answer.
Developing solid guitar techniques is particularly subject to the quality and intensity of your practice regimens -- you'll only get so far relying on repetition and frequency alone. Chris Buono's Guitar Gym workouts will take you the rest of the way with 12 collections of tried, tested and proven intensive workouts for Triad Arpeggios, Tapping, Hybrid Picking, Alternate Picking, Hammers & Pull-Offs, Power Chords, Scales, Speed Picking,Triads, Harmonic Minor Triad Chord Scales, Major Triad Chord Scales and Melodic Minor Triad Chord Scales
Guitar Gym -- your path to "perfect" chops!
What you'll learn
- Navigate fretboard with power chord shapes
- Improve power chord technique across skill levels
- Understand effective skill development
- Develop systematic practice routine
- Develop clean muting techniques
Release date: 10/24/2012 • 2h 14m runtime
Sample lessons
Power Chords: Level 1
Workout #3: Overview
Power Chords: Level 1
Workout #3: 40 BPM
Power Chords: Level 2
Workout #1: Overview
Power Chords: Level 2
Workout #1: 80 BPM
What's included
42 lessons • 27 charts • 36 Jam Tracks
Power Chords
Chops: Our heroes have them and we all want them. In order to get them you gotta do what any other person training to better themselves in some way would do - get to the gym! Well, that's exactly what you're going to do - welcome to the Guitar Gym series. No matter what level you're at or if you have various strong and weak points in your technique, Guitar Gym has you covered. Each course is comprised of a collection of leveled workouts waiting for you to dig into.
Here in Guitar Gym: Power Chords it's all about those diadic stalwarts that we guitarists just can't get enough of. Split into three leveled sections Guitar Gym Power Chords doles out a comprehensive, rigorous game plan for you to get your picking together. Each level is split up into three workouts made up of 13 video segments starting with the overview where I'll give you a quick synopsis of what's in store. The following 12 videos are the three workouts further split up into three tempos - slow, medium, fast - that all have an accompanying introduction video where I explain the ins and outs on how to play the workout. Eachworkout is clearly laid out for you in Power Tab and will be readily available for you to download right from the TrueFire player. In the three actual workout videos I will play through the workout for the amount of time I prescribe in the overview and introduction videos so you always have me right there with you (in various views) as you sweat it all out here in Guitar Gym.
At the heart of any drilling regimen including this one is precise timing. It not only keeps things orderly in all aspects of music, but it also serves as a guide and indicator as to how you're progressing. What's more, anyone who has been in the chops shed knows that one of the most important practices is to increase the tempo incrementally one-by-one. While the three parts of each workout will be presented in a slow-medium-fast fashion in regards to tempo, it's up to you to take the workout into your own shed and incrementally up the tempo while you practice, preparing you for the next tempo mark. Dig?
Ready!?
Let's do it to it!
Here in Guitar Gym: Power Chords it's all about those diadic stalwarts that we guitarists just can't get enough of. Split into three leveled sections Guitar Gym Power Chords doles out a comprehensive, rigorous game plan for you to get your picking together. Each level is split up into three workouts made up of 13 video segments starting with the overview where I'll give you a quick synopsis of what's in store. The following 12 videos are the three workouts further split up into three tempos - slow, medium, fast - that all have an accompanying introduction video where I explain the ins and outs on how to play the workout. Eachworkout is clearly laid out for you in Power Tab and will be readily available for you to download right from the TrueFire player. In the three actual workout videos I will play through the workout for the amount of time I prescribe in the overview and introduction videos so you always have me right there with you (in various views) as you sweat it all out here in Guitar Gym.
At the heart of any drilling regimen including this one is precise timing. It not only keeps things orderly in all aspects of music, but it also serves as a guide and indicator as to how you're progressing. What's more, anyone who has been in the chops shed knows that one of the most important practices is to increase the tempo incrementally one-by-one. While the three parts of each workout will be presented in a slow-medium-fast fashion in regards to tempo, it's up to you to take the workout into your own shed and incrementally up the tempo while you practice, preparing you for the next tempo mark. Dig?
Ready!?
Let's do it to it!
Working Out in the Gym
Developing great chops is not about just mindlessly drilling an exercise over and over. There has to be a method to the madness
First and foremost you need to create what I call in my Guitar Gym Sherpa classroom a Workout Schedule. My Workout Schedules carve out a set amount of time on set days of the week that slot out precisely what it your going to play. This helps big time and results are inspiring to say the least! And, this is not as much time as you might expect. If you're working on just one skill such as the one here in this course you need but 15-30 minutes a day depending on how many Workouts you want to drill down. That said, you could set it up so you do a morning and evening session. The key is focused, disciplined practice time with a metronome. Just stick to your "WS" and let your fingers do the rest!
Speaking of focus and discipline when starting to put together your own WS keep this mantra in mind: You absolutely must start out playing the Workouts slow and gradually climb up the tempo ladder to the top tempo tier. No if's, and's or lazy butts about it. Even if you think you can play the Workout at the medium tempo, trust me, knock it down to the lowest tier and build. You may be masking playing anomalies you don't even know are there by jumping into passages at a medium to high tempo. Slowing down what you're playing will reveal what you may need to work on. Do it!
Not only does starting out at the lowest tempo tier ensure you'll get the most out of your practice time, but it will also help to prevent any injuries. Notice I mentioned 15-30 minute Workout Schedules, spaced out if you want to do more, and not marathon sessions. Playing in reasonable blocks of time is much safer way to build your muscle memory as well as help you attain the ultimate skill in playing proficiently on the guitar: The art of relaxation. If you're relaxed and keeping your practice time calculated and spaced out, you'll be safe successful.
First and foremost you need to create what I call in my Guitar Gym Sherpa classroom a Workout Schedule. My Workout Schedules carve out a set amount of time on set days of the week that slot out precisely what it your going to play. This helps big time and results are inspiring to say the least! And, this is not as much time as you might expect. If you're working on just one skill such as the one here in this course you need but 15-30 minutes a day depending on how many Workouts you want to drill down. That said, you could set it up so you do a morning and evening session. The key is focused, disciplined practice time with a metronome. Just stick to your "WS" and let your fingers do the rest!
Speaking of focus and discipline when starting to put together your own WS keep this mantra in mind: You absolutely must start out playing the Workouts slow and gradually climb up the tempo ladder to the top tempo tier. No if's, and's or lazy butts about it. Even if you think you can play the Workout at the medium tempo, trust me, knock it down to the lowest tier and build. You may be masking playing anomalies you don't even know are there by jumping into passages at a medium to high tempo. Slowing down what you're playing will reveal what you may need to work on. Do it!
Not only does starting out at the lowest tempo tier ensure you'll get the most out of your practice time, but it will also help to prevent any injuries. Notice I mentioned 15-30 minute Workout Schedules, spaced out if you want to do more, and not marathon sessions. Playing in reasonable blocks of time is much safer way to build your muscle memory as well as help you attain the ultimate skill in playing proficiently on the guitar: The art of relaxation. If you're relaxed and keeping your practice time calculated and spaced out, you'll be safe successful.
Power Chords: Level 1
No matter what style(s) of music you're going to pursue power chords will surely be a part of playing it. While these chords have a few ways they can be played more often than not it will come down to the two note grip we have here. In these three Level 1 Power Chord Workouts we'll work through three essential approaches. First up will be playing a pair of two-note voiced power chords rooted on the 6th string ala the power chord pioneer, Tony Iommi (just try and find an instance where he plays power chords on another string set!). Upping the ante just a bit we'll go into a four chord change that will have you moving up and down the neck continuing to play 6th string rooted power chords. This will be a great workout for looking ahead as well as nailing chord changes as cleanly as possible. The third and final workout set will close things out with a two chord change that has you playing power chords from one string set (6th-5th) to another (5th-4th). Don't laugh - it's harder than you think.
Ready? Let's do it.
Ready? Let's do it.
Power Chords: Level 1
In this workout #1 we'll play two 6th string rooted power chords that are separated by a whole step. You'll start with a V position A5 and then go down two frets to play a III position G5. You'll notice we'll start out nice and easy playing whole steps at a very slow tempo. The key here is to play the chords clearly and keep the pressure applied to the grip steady. While you're holding down a chord visualize the next one, and when it comes time to make the change, keep your fingers in that formation and you'll make the move to the next chord smooth and strong.
Power Chords: Level 1
In this workout #1 we'll play two 6th string rooted power chords that are separated by a whole step. You'll start with a V position A5 and then go down two frets to play a III position G5. You'll notice we'll start out nice and easy playing whole steps at a very slow tempo. The key here is to play the chords clearly and keep the pressure applied to the grip steady. While you're holding down a chord visualize the next one, and when it comes time to make the change, keep your fingers in that formation and you'll make the move to the next chord smooth and strong.
Power Chords: Level 1
In this workout #1 we'll play two 6th string rooted power chords that are separated by a whole step. You'll start with a V position A5 and then go down two frets to play a III position G5. You'll notice we'll start out nice and easy playing whole steps at a very slow tempo. The key here is to play the chords clearly and keep the pressure applied to the grip steady. While you're holding down a chord visualize the next one, and when it comes time to make the change, keep your fingers in that formation and you'll make the move to the next chord smooth and strong.
Power Chords: Level 1
In this workout #1 we'll play two 6th string rooted power chords that are separated by a whole step. You'll start with a V position A5 and then go down two frets to play a III position G5. You'll notice we'll start out nice and easy playing whole steps at a very slow tempo. The key here is to play the chords clearly and keep the pressure applied to the grip steady. While you're holding down a chord visualize the next one, and when it comes time to make the change, keep your fingers in that formation and you'll make the move to the next chord smooth and strong.
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