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Guitar Warm Up Exercises for Beginners

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This beginners guitar scales warm up sheet with chords contains 4 one octave scales with the corresponding chords at the end of each one. The scales included are two G major scales in different octaves and with different chord variations at the end and also A major and C major scales.

The C/E chord is an easy variation of a C chord, and the G/D chord is an easy variation of a G chord. If you are able to do the full chords you can play them instead, or have a go at these easy chords instead, which by the way are useful moveable shapes if you move them up the fretboard and convert them into barre chord shapes by holding down the 1st finger across the first 4 strings and playing the rest of the chord in relation to this.

Beginners Chords Exercise using C, G and F, with a strumming rhythm and fingerpicking tab

Use the strumming rhythm with the chord progression and chord diagrams to play the strumming exercise. Then for the fingerpicking exercise you will need to follow the tab and play the exercise using all 4 fingers. Holding the suggested chords down won’t help much with this exercise but the chords above the tab will fit if someone else plays those along with the fingerpicking pattern.

The strumming pattern for each chord is Down, Down Up, Up Down Up. D DU UDU.

Intermediate players could play the barre chord F on the right instead of the easier F.

This chord progression of G F C G is could be in the key of C, where I IV and V are C F and G (V IV I V), or it could be in the key of G where the 7th diatonic chord is flattened to a major chord, and the chord progression would be I bVII IV I.

This exercise sheet is from a 21 page pdf ebook called Beginners Guitar Chords, Rhythms & Fingerpicking Exercises – 2025 Edition.