Weekly Workout

The Weekly Workout is a series of monthly exercises made up of interesting technical workouts that will get your fretting- and picking-hand fingers working in different ways, and offer musical studies that will help you visualize and explore the fingerboard.

Collections of Weekly Workouts organized by topic and technique are available to download in the Acoustic Guitar store for a year's worth of guitar lesson workouts that promise to engage your fingers as well as your mind.

In every lesson available here, you’ll get a different guitar exercise to work on for each week of the month, as well as a few extra variations and extended practice ideas.

Jane Miller seated teaching a weekly workout lesson on her acoustic guitar, photographed in a studio with a microphone in front and a grand piano in the background.

Weekly Workout: Using Triads to Negotiate Seventh Chords

Learn to use three-note, three-string triads — you probably already know a lot of these chords, and in this lesson, you’ll find ways to repurpose them.

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Weekly Workout: Building Colorful Chords from the Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

In this advanced guitar lesson, meet the melodic and harmonic minor scales and explore the harmonies that can be generated from them.

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Video Lesson: Generating Challenging Picking Exercises From Ninth Chords

Let’s take a close look at a common extended chord—containing a note beyond the seventh, the venerable ninth.

4 Ways to Improve Your Fingerstyle Guitar Improvisation

This Weekly Workout will help you develop your frame of mind and confidence in solo fingerstyle improvisation on guitar via Tárrega's “Etude in E minor.”

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Using Slash Chords to Strengthen Your Bass Lines and Chord Progressions

Slash chords are a small change to a chord voicing that can have a big impact on the sound of a progression, as we’ll explore in this guitar lesson.

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How to Strengthen Your Picking Skills Through Efficient Patterns

In this guitar lesson you'll learn economy picking, which includes alternate and sweep picking styles, as well as legato techniques for your fretting fingers.

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Try These Fun and Challenging Counterpoint Exercises on Guitar

Contrapuntal lines are not necessarily intuitive for most guitarists, but the approach is certainly worth the investment and yields dividends equivalent to sonic gold.

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Guitar Lesson: Using Augmented Arpeggios to Add Dreamlike Sequences

In this guitar lesson, learn fretboard exercises to play beautiful, dreamlike augmented arpeggios for soloing and composing in any style.

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Make Your Own Blues Using Classic Guitar Licks and Phrases

If you look to the masters for inspiration—without copying them note for note—you can produce blues verses and solos that sound fresh and exciting on guitar.

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Weekly Workout: Add Jazzy Walking Bass Lines to Your Accompaniments

Learn how to play walking bass lines with chords—a cool approach to have up your sleeve, no matter what style you play.

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