(Essential Elements Guitar). A good warm-up session can be the most crucial part of your practice session. Not only does it limber and stretch your finger muscles, it helps to ward off injuries, gets your hands in "sync," and promotes accuracy and speed. This book contains a wide variety of exercises to help get your hands in top playing shape. It addresses the basic elements of guitar warm-ups by category: stretches and pre-playing coordination exercises, picking exercises, right and left-hand synchronization, and rhythm guitar warm-ups. The Odds & Ends chapter covers other misc. topics such as legato warm-ups, string-bending exercises, scale sequences, and arpeggios. Use this book daily, choosing one or two exercises in each chapter to warm up, and you'll playing will be cleaner, more articulate, and of a higher caliber. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book! Now including PLAYBACK+ , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right available exclusively from Hal Leonard.