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Understanding Legato and Staccato Techniques on Guitar

Legato and Staccato Techniques sound like quite a mouthful, right? Although they have a very “classical” sounding air to their descriptions, they are really a basic concept that all musicians should learn. Especially rock guitarists! As a guitar player who is studying this advanced area of the website, you might be using a combination of both already without even knowing…

10 Legato exercises that will double your finger strength

Here’s a fun method that I came up with many years ago using legato exercises to dramatically increase the strength and dexterity of all the fingers on my left. I used to have all of my one-on-one students practice this every week. This is another one of those deceptively simple exercises. And if you don’t spend a week trying things…