This is another simple but powerful exercise to improve your string crossing. It’s a basic right-hand pattern - arpeggiating any 6-note chord voicing - where you play picado across all six strings to work on adjusting your hand (as opposed to your fingers) when playing across multiple strings.

A look at five moveable Major Scale patterns that together give you a good command of the Major Scale just about anywhere on the fretboard. The patterns are good for sale practice, but also one of the foundations of good fretboard knowledge.

José Antonio told me that when he was at the conservatory he and his friends would use this pattern as a warmup and to develop speed moving across string-sets. I agree that it’s a great warmup, and also great for working on more complex right-hand patterns.

A movable form of the Major7 Arpeggio with its root on the sixth string, this little pattern is great one for warmup and for working on string crossing across all six strings. It’s also another little bit of fretboard knowledge if that’s new to you.

Work on the two ways of planting you left hand for Arpeggios with this traditional bit of Tangos Arpeggio. The material is pretty simple, but learning to groove it well is key for playing a grooving Tangos compás, and deciding how you eat to plant is a big part of building a solid Arpeggio here.

This is the Ultimate Lots-Of-Notes Scale. By combining three chromatic scale patterns - single-string, open position and moveable - we create six different ways to play a three-octave chromatic scale. You’ll also be able to play chromatic scales anywhere on the neck by using various combinations ...

A minor scale passage I like to use either as a warmup or as a speed building exercise. We look at the scale in open position, and then in a moveable form that can be played with or without a bar.

I used to hear guitarists in the Caño Roto barrio of Madrid work on this one all the time. It’s basically a synchronization exercise for Picado that can either be played very comfortably or extremely uncomfortably.

Not actually a Chromatic Scale, but it sort of looks like one. This exercise is great for improving your finger independence while barred. And by taking the concept and changing the left-hand fingerings, you can make lots more exercises out of this one.

The traditional Alegrias Escobilla falseta is basically a ton of Arpeggios, so use that as an exercise while you developing solid planting, both full and sequential. And you can use exactly the same melody to work on your 16th PAMI Arpeggios or your sextuplets.

We look at a basic exercise for working on your PAMI Arpeggios - probably the most important Arpeggio in flamenco - and at both Full and Sequential Planting.

This little Tangos passage is good for your Arpeggio or for your Picado, but it’s even better as an exercise for transitioning between the two.

If the "Grisha Exercise" is good for you, then why not take it one step further and play it all barred? This is basically the same exercise, but rather than playing in open position you play it barred, getting all of the benefits of the original exercise, with the added "complication" of keeping ...

This one's a bit noodle-y, but great for string crossings, general accuracy, speed, and endurace. Once you've learned it make sure you try it starting on both the i and the m fingers.

This might look like a picado exercise, but it's more about synchronization and learning to relax the pinky when it has a lot to do. Take this one slow, really focus on relaxing that pinky, and don't overdo it!

A simple exercise with no string crossings that starts with a little burst of 16th that can be a powerful workout for synchronization or for working on the speed of your bursts.

This is a deceptively simple exercise that Viejín showed me many years ago. Learn Part 1 first, then take this one slowly to get the most out of it. And don't underestimate it just because it's "simple."

This is a deceptively simple exercise that Viejín showed me many years ago. Learn Parts 1 and 2 first, then take this one slowly to get the most out of it. And don't underestimate it just because it's "simple."

This is a popular exercise that can really be about whatever you want to work on, given that it's just a ton of notes. You can focus or synchronization, mechanics of either hand, relaxation, alternation, endurance - whatever you want really. This one's practically a blank canvas.