recommended exercises?

[Ironeagle76]

I'm 34 with no guitar experience, hope my brain is not to old to learn lol..... I started fundamental 1 a few days ago. Is there any warmup exercises I should do before lessons to help with muscle memory. I find unless I'm watching my fingers they usually fall on the wrong string or I'm up or down a fret.

Thanks

[Neal Walter]

You're never too old to learn!

Here is a great warm-up exercise you may find very useful:

http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=12293&s_id=621

[tomencome]

I have looked through the lesson outlines and did not see these exercises anywhere.Where are they hidden?

[Razbo]

I presume the Fundamentals somewhere, but I'm not clicking all through them to find it. :p

I think tomencome raises a good point. When I take the link Neal posted, my navigation title informs me:

You are here: Guitar Tricks: Lessons: Focus on Hand Position

But where is that?

[CSchlegel]

I presume the Fundamentals somewhere, but I'm not clicking all through them to find it.
It's not part of a course. Note the right side navigation links are only the lessons in the tutorial & not the tutorial of a course. It's the first lesson in Lisa Spider Fingers warmups, called Focus On Hand Position:

http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=12293

The tutorial overview page is here:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=621

Those are great warmup exercises & finger stretches. Personally, I like doing various scale exercises like the ones near the end of GF 2:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=451

Anything you can use to get your fingers going really helps, though!

[HotXRock]

I don't get what's the problem here. That link leads to the lesson belonging to this tutorial: http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=621 . As it states in the Course section, "This tutorial is not part of a course."

The only mistake in description that I noticed is that there's nothing in the Category and Difficulty sections. If I'm right, then this should really be fixed. But I see that this tutorial still shows up here: http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorials.php . By the way, I don't know what pages links to this page. :) Maybe, that's why you are having difficulties finding this tutorial.

P.S. Looks like I wrote my post simultaneously with Chris. :)

[tomencome]

I promise I am not trying to be hard headed, I am just having a hard time navigating the site. This site is loaded with useful informational, that is the reason I subscribed. I look at the "lessons" an there is a clear path from one to the next. I don't see the path that leads to the "tutorials".

Do I get there through the "instructors" tab? I have VERY slow connection speed so I have to minimize what pages I click through to get where I want to be.

Thanks in advance,

[Razbo]

It's not part of a course. Note the right side navigation links are only the lessons in the tutorial & not the tutorial of a course. It's the first lesson in Lisa Spider Fingers warmups, called Focus On Hand Position

Understood. I think I might be able to make a suggestion for tomencome, if I may be so bold:

With your connection speed, you will want to minimize the page loads. I would recommend getting to know the Search function well, then organize bookmarks in your Browser. Once you find something you want to work on, or might want to come back to, bookmark it (with a meaningful title).

If you use the GT bookmarks (and there is nothing wrong with them!), you'll have to wait for a whole page of book marks to load before you can even click a link to the page you want to actually go to. So use your Browser bookmarks to your advantage.

I've got a fast connection, but still I normally use my Browser bookmarks just because I can arrange them under Do Next and Do Later and other folders, or save links to tutorials I want to review some day in detail, etc. Plus I always bookmark where I am at in a lesson so the next session I can go immediately there with no interim page loads.

Hope that helps a bit.