recommended exercises?

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

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

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

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?

Originally Posted by: RazboI 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!

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. :)

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,

Originally Posted by: CSchlegelIt'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 [u]Browser[/u]. 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.