Guitar Training Exercises For Stamina

frank gambale chop builder Have you been practicing the same old guitar scales over and over again?

If you’ve already mastered your current training routine, it’s time to break out of the rut and push yourself out of your comfort zone – you won’t get any better without a variety of different exercises.

One DVD I constantly use till this day is Frank Gambale’s Chop Builder. It’s like a workout/training video that gets you practicing a moutain of licks and scales over and over. Each lick is played an average of 7 times then it switches to the next one.

The DVD is a “play-along” format, and the feeling you get is like working out along to an aerobics video, difference is you’re doing it with a guitar instead. It runs through quite a few customized licks and all the scales like the Major, Minors, Dorians etc..

I find it really good in my practice routines ’cause focuses plenty on repition and building stamina. The whole workout session runs for about 1 hour and by the end of it, you’ll definitely feel fatigued in your picking hand. I definitely feel the “strength” in my picking when I do this workout 3 times a week.

For you absolute beginners, you might want to skip this guitar DVD as it’s a bit too advanced. I think Amazon.com still stocks this title, it’s a bit old but there’s nothing else like it on the market.