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The Virtuoso Challenge: 7 Exercises In 7 Days

Learn the exact exercises used by guitar virtuosos like Rafael Aguirre, Artyom Dervoed, Vladimir Gorbach, and more. Download the free exercise PDF and take the challenge of completing all 7 exercises in 7 days!

What's Inside
  • 7 exercises for both right and left hands

  • Detailed playing instructions

  • Tips from the players themselves

What You Will Learn

As classical guitarists, we’re always striving to improve our technical abilities on the instrument. A big part of that is finding new, challenging exercises to work into your practice routine. That’s why we put together this 7-day exercise challenge – to introduce you to new, engaging – even bizarre – exercises to help boost your technical development up a level.

Related Lessons & Workshops
Technique Mastery: Exercise #1: Vertical Stretching

by Artyom Dervoed

Many times in order to maintain lines or reach certain chords, a piece will require you to incorporate lengthy stretches in the left hand. With practice, the following exercise ensures that long stretches will become much easier for you.

Rafael Aguirre's Top 10 Technique Exercises: Left Hand Exercises

by Rafael Aguirre

After a quick introduction to the course, Rafael jumps in with two exercises for the left hand; "climbing" and a triplet scale.

On Scales

by Vladimir Gorbach

After walking through a brief warm up exercise and discussing rest and free stroke differences, Gorbach guides you step-by-step through the different levels of speeding up your scales.

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