The Spider II -Advanced Warm Up-

The first "The Spider" post should have helped you to get used to move your fingers independently. One variation of that is combining this with string skipping. So you start on the E string and jump to the G string and back. Another variation is to combine the Spider with stretching by changing from a chromatic scale to always moving by one note. This will stretch your middle and ring finger and train their independence.

tabstave notation=true notes :8 14/6 16/6 18/6 20/6 | notes :8 14/5 16/5 18/5 20/5 | notes :8 14/4 16/4 18/4 20/4 | tabstave notation=true notes :8 14/3 | tabstave notation=true notes :8 14/1 16/1 18/1 20/1 | notes :8 14/2 16/2 18/2 20/2 | notes :8 14/3 16/3 18/3 20/3 |

The next step would be to skip strings by going from the E string to the D string and then to the B string and vice versa.

The Spider - Building Block of Legato

To make progress on the guitar, you want to look at the smallest building blogs of your guitar playing. Most tutorials or books show you how to play a large number of notes in a short amount of time but fail to actually show how to use your hands to play the guitar.
In other words how does one finger press on one string and then on the next one. Here is a simple chromatic scale that is sometimes called "The Spider". The idea is that only one finger is up in the air while all the other fingers press down a string. In other words, while your first finger is already on the next string the other three fingers still press the previous string. Try this with higher speeds on the metronome. The main idea is that your fingers move independently ... that is one of the basic requirements of playing fast and fluid. This training is also a building block for playing legato ... make a habit out of only lifting one finger for all your scales and runs. All the other fingers stay on the strings ...

tabstave notation=true key=A notes :8 5/6 6/6 7/6 8/6 | notes :8 5/5 6/5 7/5 8/5 | notes :8 5/4 6/4 7/4 8/4 | tabstave notation=true notes :8 5/3 | tabstave notation=true notes :8 8/1 7/1 6/1 5/1 | notes :8 8/2 7/2 6/2 5/2 | notes :8 8/3 7/3 6/3 5/3 |