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Guitar Spider Exercises

September 7, 2008 By Lee 14 Comments

The spider exercise comes in a few different forms but they are all based on the same thing. Whatever versions you use, they are great for building dexterity, synchronisation and speed, in fact they are just all round useful for improving your guitar technique.

I haven’t shown any picking patterns in these Tabs because as always, I think you should practice them all. Do the whole thing starting on a up stroke, then do it again starting with a down stroke, alternate picked, economy picked. There’s always a lot of questions about how you should pick scales and exercises. I always have a simple answer for this… try them all! If something’s difficult then you can only benefit from practicing it.

Spider Exercise 1

exercise 1 tab

Spider Exercise 2 Up and down the strings

exercise 1 tab

Spider Exercise – Variation 1

variation 1 tab

Spider Exercise – Variation 2

variation 2 tab

Spider Exercise played in triplets. This is difficult, make sure you play with an accent on the beat (every third note) to get the most benefit from this exercise.

triplet exercise tab

Spider Exercise – variation of the first played in reverse

reverse exercise tab

You can create many variations of this exercise, try to find others yourself.

Have fun!

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Comments

  1. chino says

    November 25, 2008 at 4:34 am

    great! i will give it a try. tnx!

    Reply
  2. znuxor says

    February 12, 2010 at 3:02 am

    Nice exercise! It helped me a lot. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Anonymous says

    February 27, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    thnx

    Reply
  4. Some Random dude says

    March 3, 2010 at 8:43 am

    Pure guitar wisdom right here…..

    Reply
  5. Ronnie Cahya says

    April 2, 2010 at 10:31 pm

    Thank you for technique….

    Reply
  6. Jimmy says

    April 2, 2011 at 8:34 am

    Nice exercise, but I would like finger numbers on it..

    Reply
    • JH says

      June 20, 2012 at 9:12 am

      Jimmy, the finger numbers strike me as obvious. You’re playing the same four frets throughout the exercise, you just do the entire thing in the fifth position.

      Reply
  7. Aman Soni says

    June 9, 2011 at 9:55 am

    Thanks.. Its nice.. Help me in increasing my speed..!!

    Reply
  8. Anonymous says

    June 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Exactly what I was looking for!
    Thanks a lot!!!

    Reply
  9. Anonymous says

    February 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Thanks for this tip..

    Reply
  10. Anonymous says

    February 8, 2013 at 10:10 am

    nc scales 4 exercise…

    Reply
  11. Nathaniel M.J says

    April 12, 2013 at 1:52 pm

    I have been doing the exercises for hours and days and my left fingers are getting stronger than even my right fingers.They are helpful but is that the only benefit of the execise.Where can i apply it to for example how can i use them in a song?
    But they are superb and splendid.i’m grateful for your help.

    Reply
  12. Anonymous says

    July 13, 2016 at 6:30 am

    thanks for this lee…

    Reply

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