Technique Drills
Guitar · 6 stringsMost players plateau because they practise fast rather than practising accurately and letting the speed follow. Every drill here runs on one rule: play it perfectly four times in a row and the tempo goes up 4 BPM — miss one and it drops 8.
Chromatic 1-2-3-4
Frets 1-2-3-4 with fingers 1-2-3-4 on the low E, across every string and back, then up a fret.
The most efficient synchronisation drill there is. Musically it is nothing; that is not what it is for.
Tempo
60BPM
Your best
Not set yet
Four clean reps sets it
4 more clean reps to reach 64.
48 notes · ~96s
Space starts and stops. M logs a miss without letting go of the guitar.
Moving this by hand clears the reps you had banked — they were earned at another speed.
Plug your guitar in and this will mark every note of the drill against what it asked for — right note, wrong note, or missed entirely.
It never moves the tempo ladder — that stays yours to judge. It only tells you what it heard.
Watch for this
Both hands arriving together. That — not the notes — is what you are actually training.
Fretting hand
- Fingertips close to the frets, not in the middle of the box.
- Minimum pressure — press until the note speaks, and no further.
- Fingers hovering over the board rather than flying away from it.
Picking hand
- Small motion from the wrist, not the elbow.
- Consistent pick depth on every stroke.
- If you are digging in harder as the tempo rises, you are tensing.
Stop if anything hurts. Speed work rewards frequency over duration — fifteen focused minutes daily beats ninety minutes on Saturday.
Also in the daily set
Scale in position, then in thirds, already lives in Guitar Scales — same click, same ladderless pattern runner. It is not duplicated here.
Open the scale pattern runner →