I watched this YouTube video a couple of days ago from creativeguitarstudio.com that hosts an accompanying blog post whose author is Andrew Wasson. I hadn't visited this guy's channel before but the video, posted on September 1st 2019, has garnered nearly three million views so I figured it was worth watching.
To quote from the blog site:
The Spider Walk exercise is one of the most challenging finger studies known to guitar players. But, one of the problems with learning it is that this exercise is rarely ever shown to students correctly. In this post we're going to explain the proper way to study the Spider Walk and we'll discuss the benefits that it can provide within just 30 days of practice.
He begins with what he calls the "fixed finger approach". See Figure 1.
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| Figure 1 |
Keep the fingers "glued" to the neck, moving only one finger at a time onto the next adjacent guitar string. As you perform the exercise, be sure not to even flinch any of the other fingers from their fretted placement within the position.He then goes on to what he calls the "single string" exercise. See Figure 2.
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| Figure 2 |
- 2009 --> 35 posts
- 2010 --> 20 posts
- 2011 --> no posts
- 2012 --> no posts
- 2013 --> 278 posts
- 2014 --> 484 posts
- 2015 --> 498 posts
- 2016 --> 427 posts
- 2017 --> 322 posts
- 2018 --> 162 posts
- 2019 --> 121 posts
- 2020 --> 104 posts
Despite starting in 2009 and continuing into 2010, he had a hiatus of two years and then began in earnest. His phenomenal output for a three year period from 2014 to 2016 averaged more than one post per day. He output has been declining steadily ever since but even his 2020 output of 104 posts is impressive and averages exactly two posts per week. By comparison, my Mathematics blog is the blog to which I make the most posts and my record is 68 posts in both 2018 and 2020.
Andrew Wasson has another site, http://www.andrewwasson.com, that dates back to May 2010 but he says that "as of June 24, 2016, YouTube lesson Handouts are posted in the members area of CreativeGuitarStudio.com." Previously I've subscribed to the following YouTube guitar training or guitar playing channels:
- Paul Davids
- Rick Beato
- Mark Cirillo
- Guitar Jamz
- EricBlackmonGuitar
- Guitarist
- James Bartholomew
- LickNRiff
- Mary Spender
- Nail Guitar - Song Lessons
- Sammy Copley
- Tatyana Ryzhkova
- Walter Rodrigues Jr.
- John Fogerty
Of these channels, it's LickNRiff that I've viewed the most times. He has over half a million subscribers and his videos are both entertaining and instructive. I'm making this post in an effort to reinforce one of my New Year resolutions which was to improve the standard of my guitar playing. One last thing is that was mentioned in the Spider Walk video was the use of an online metronome that is available at this site for free.
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