No more taped fingers

Oh yea forgot to mention, my cousin adviced me against finger taping, so since the third day its been bare fingers...ok so it was a good way to survive the second day but he was right, it wasnt too prudent an idea...

He gave me an exercise to practice, i must say it was the most effective exercise yet. It is to place your fingers on the very end of the guitar.

step 1 pluck the sixth string bare

step 2 pluck it again but this time with the first finger on the first fret

step 3 pluck it again but this time with the second finger on the second fret, without letting go of the first fingers position

step 4 do the same for third and fourth finger while holding all the fingers in place. Its actually pretty hard at first, but once u get the right hand position its actually rather easy.

step 5 repeat the above said for the 5th string and so on

step 6 one uve reached the first string and ur pinky is on fourth fret, let the pinky go and play, then let the third finger go and pluck again, basicly the reverse of wht uve been doing before

step 7 repeat this same thing for the second string, by placing ur fingers in position and letting go of finger by finger

Now the trick is to make a proper sound with each pluck, so its important to apply enuf pressure each time, and ur cheatin if u loosen ur grip on any of the fingers while playing.

As u get better u can do this exercise faster and faster with more accuracy. After this exercise hitting chords will be pretty much childs play, as this four finger exercise makes u stretch ur fingers apart more than any chord with the exception of barre chords, i have seen em, but its hard to explain it, go wiki :P

NOTE: while pressin the fingers on the chords avoid touching the adjacent strings, pluck the other strings while in position and make sure they make the same sound otherwise u will need to adjust the position of ur fingers. Making sure ur fingers dont touch the adjacent strings during this exercise will greatly improve chord hitting accuracy.

Another thing to keep in mind is the pluckin technique, the thinner strings need to be plucked differently to make an actual sound. see that youtube vid and its links for guitar basics, im just covering the stuff they forgot to mention :P

Neways thats the stuff i shud have written before Krauser Vs Shoichi post, now back to practice