The Right Hand Exercise I Should Have Been Doing for Years
Mar 06, 2026I added one simple exercise to my daily warmup and my right hand accuracy improved drastically.
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In this Sound Practice Log, I'm sharing what I call the "Calibration Exercise", an open string right hand walking exercise adapted from Scott Tenant's Pumping Nylon.
I think every fingerstyle and classical guitarist should be doing this every single day.
If your right hand ever feels inconsistent, imprecise, or like you're just hoping the right string gets plucked, this is for you.
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What you'll learn:
• The calibration exercise and how to practice it,
• All the finger combinations (p, i, m, a, c),
• Why planting quickly matters even at slow tempos,
• How right hand security unlocks tone, dynamics, and expression.
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