Sort Out Your Strength & Stamina

Jon Bishop serves up a smorgasbord of exercises designed to improve strength and stamina. A broad base of picking and fretting techniques are covered so there’s something in here for everyone.

- Jon Bishop

This month it’s time to head to the metaphorical guitar gym and pump some iron - well, some steel (strings, that is). If you notice inconsistencies or apparent sloppiness creeping into your performances or find yourself running out of steam when playing those fast runs or that song with the horrendous barrage of barre chords, then this is the feature for you.

We have designed this program to address various popular areas of weakness in both the fretting and picking hands. Classic issues like that of holding down the aforementioned passage of barre chords, keeping string bends in tune and involving the fretting-hand’s fourth finger are all addressed. To keep it interesting we have also included a few more challenging and certainly more impressive sounding techniques such as fast hybrid picking and two-handed tapping.