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Technique Challenge: Day 8 - Spider Madness (Patreon)

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2025-01-09 09:39:44
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2025-01-16 07:56:15
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We're kicking off Week 2 with some more Spider madness! There are 24 possible finger permutations available, I suggest working with just 2 or 3, perhaps the ones you find the most tricky. As usual, prioritise good timing and tone over speed. Tab can be found below.

Have fun, see you tomorrow for day 9.

-Adrian

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The ACPG 30 Day Guitar Technique Challenge: Day 8 - Return of the Spider

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Comments

Matty

I've just become arachnophobic.

Peder Olsson

As always, simple, challenging and great lesson! I wonder - when I do a mistake - what do you recommend me doing: Start from the beginning of my "set", or repeat the exact part I messed up or at the start of the section I was at when I messed up? I wonder if there is a best practice to this?

Mark Fry

Love this series of Challenges. Thank you.

Jake B (edited)

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2026-09-07 18:00 Thank you for keeping me on track once again!
2025-01-09 10:45

NB

Have to remind myself that slow and steady is the trick … walk before I try to run!!!

John Moynihan

It's going to take me years to do these properly but very valuable resource and stops me just strumming cowboy chords :-)

Iain G

These deceptively simple exercises are incredibly useful. Adrian, as a little aside, to get the number of combinations for a given number of numbers multiply them all together up to that number. For example, 4 numbers have 4x3x2x1=24. You were correct!

Ted Alkins

That's exactly me as well

John Olenski

I'm still hanging in there. Thanks Adrian... very helpful

Charles Cluck

Today is a rare snow day here in Texas, so I get to stay home and practice these all day ! Is it easier on a Tele ?

Chris Strane

Another Texan hanging in! Cold and rainy here in Houston but a good day for practice!

Bob Wrobel

Thanks Adrian, These challenges are particularly helpful for me because the pinkie finger on my left hand is bent away at the top joint (old injury and arthritis). The exercises are helping to strengthen that finger and get it more involved in my playing. Great work!

Tamra O'Halloran

Thanks for all the spider variety. Spideriety? I feel like this one and the arpeggiation practice fit together for working all the angles. Really enjoying these practices!!

hugh hales-tooke

I found it was much easier to do if you can avoid thinking about it too much. As soon as you get stuck and think about what your fingers are doing it gets harder. I had to remember to breathe too. Like with all exercises and playing in general!

tyler taube

Didn’t fall by the wayside! Haha. But I am behind after going back to work.

J.P. McDermott

Good question. I wonder about this as well.

Aaron Deas

These have been great. Thanks Adrian for the new year's gift!

Dave Knowles

Is this making music? Although exercises like these are all over, there's no evidence that they improve your playing. My jazz trumpet told me years ago the best way to learn was to play jazz tunes. We worked on the riffs - often ii-V, ii-V-I or vi-ii-V-I (think Autumn Leaves). This approach taught me where the 3d, V and root lay over the changes along with enclosures, arps. I practice these with roots on the 6th and 5th strings. Who was it that said "practice with purpose?"

Steve Brodie

I’m hanging on in there still! 🤪 My approach is not to worry too much about playing each one perfectly each day, but just getting the exercise in my memory, then I can keep revisiting it on subsequent days.

Paul Crane

I'm still hanging in. It is getting harder to play each exercise for ten minutes each day as they're piling up though! It's brilliant, thanks Adrian

anyonecanplayguitar

Sure, this particular exercise isn't musical. But I think it has its usefulness in terms of building technique or as a warm up. The majority of the other exercises in this series have a very obvious musical application as well as serving to build technical facility. And of course making music, playing tunes is the most valuable thing you can be doing, as I've said in many of my videos.

anyonecanplayguitar

Well done Tyler! Always annoying when work has to get in the way of guitar playing!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, so common to hold your breath when doing something tricky! I often need to remind myself to breathe then everything starts to flow better.

anyonecanplayguitar

That's great. Yes, these kind of exercises are great finger strengtheners for sure!

anyonecanplayguitar

Snow in Texas - didn't know that happened! Enjoy the day off. Don't know about easier, but the Tele does feel very different to my Jazzmaster.

anyonecanplayguitar

Absolutely, building technique is something that happens over months and years not overnight. So just do what you can with these exercises and enjoy the process.

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes you'll be playing for hours if you try and do every exercise each day! No one is going to be able to do that so I recommend you just keep moving on. Do each new exercise and maybe one or two of the previous exercises if you have time. Once the challenge is done you might like to try integrating some of your favourite excises into more of a long term practice routine.

Bo

3421 takes a little work! lol

hugh hales-tooke

I found that I did experience this as a musical exercise. I would play the sequence on the sixth string, and memorized it by the sound as much as the tactile experience of fingering it. The sound was my check that I was doing it correctly. I also liked the sound of some of the sequences. I'd say that's music.

Peter Healy

Day 8. This type of exercise helps me as far as getting my fretting and picking hands working as a combination but doing their own part., if that makes sense. Cheers Pete

Peder Olsson

Looks like our teacher skipped over this question… 🤷🏼

Iain G

Education these days, eh. I don’t know!

Tim

Finding this series very engaging, but is it considered cheating to watch Netflix while doing spider exercises?

anyonecanplayguitar

No not skipped, just missed it yesterday! Sorry guys. Good question. I'd say either restart on the same string, or else go back to the starting string for that particular set. The most important thing would be to keep in time and on the beat ie downstrokes on the metronome click. If you're making too many mistakes then it indicates you probably need to slow down and perhaps play the exercise in free time before attempting it with the metronome. Hope that helps.

Peder Olsson

Thanks Adrian, that is helpful! I think holding my concentration over a longer time always has been a weakness in my playing. I often get lost playing songs I know by heart (playing and singing at the same time in a band setting is HARD) - and aging is making it worse I'm afraid. With that said: I think your pedagogical instructions and is really helping me creating deeper grooves in my nervous system and eventually nailing the things. Practice makes, well if not perfect, good enough!

Brian West

I am still here enjoying these excercises I am keeping up with each day's challenge and am now compiling a schedule of my favourite ones to include in my daily practice regime. The difficult ones for me I am not ignoring but keep going back too. Thanks Adrian

Steve Crockett

I'm a slight straggler but I'm not giving up! just wanted to say how excited I am today because I was actually able to play along at your speed on some of the permutations of the spider! and it's because I was practicing these techniques since day 1 :) thanks for keeping us motivated Adrian!

Haroun Haroun

Excellent for getting those Troutmask Replica riffs down-pat!

HagRunDan

Hi Adrian, a simple question. I wonder about holding fingers or not. I remember that many years ago a guitar course recommended only doing this with fingers holded, both going up and down the chromatic scale. I really wish to remove this doubt. I find that holding the fingers really makes it many times harder. But does it pay off? Can you give us your definitive opinion? Please tell us.