Stronger picking hand

[MardyAss]

Does anyone know any excercise to strengthen the left hand, especially the pinkie?
I trying to learn "Linus & Lucy" by Hamm, and I'm poorer than you can think, so I cant buy those "hand-strenghteners-squeeze-thingies"

 

[SanderThomas]

Are you a lefty? Or do you mean the fretting hand? (or is the "picking hand" the fretting hand?)

Anyway, I got stronger hands by playing and playing and playing and playing and playing etc....

 

[Higon]

Are you a lefty?

Hell yeah.

How bad you are? Maybe you should work with cromatics and the metronome. Cromatics are good stuff, you should practice then through all the fretboard.

 

[MardyAss]

Oh sorry, I ment the fretting hand...

 

[narcisco]

Do it slow perfectly. That is the drill no matter how ungodly the slow tempo is do it perfectly. That is the road to chops. And also expect a plateau where no progress seems possible. you will break thru it.

 

[Burning46&2]

There is very hard, but very good excercise for left (fretting) hand:
1. You put your 1st (index) finger on for ex. 5th fret. Then You tap 6th fret with 2nd finger. Do it fast - for ex. in 8ths in 150bpm. Try for about a minute.
2. Same but you tap with 3rd (ring) finger in 7th fret.
3. Tap with 4th (pinky) on 8th..
4. Press 6th fret with 2nd finger and tap with 3rd on 7th fret.
5. -------- // -------------- 4th on 8th.
6. Press 7th fret with 3rd finger and tap with 4th on 8th.
7. Press 5th with your index again and tap in pattern: (1) - 2 - (1) - 2 - 4 - 2 - ... (where (1) is pull of on index)
8. Same but pattern: (1) - 3 - (1) - 3 - 4 - 3 - ...

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