10-Minute Guitar Practice Routine for Beginners

Enjoy this 10-Minute Guitar Practice Routine for Beginners with Guitareo instructor Ayla Tesler-Mabe!

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0:00 - Intro

Ayla Tesler-Mabe put together a 10-minute workout routine to help build dexterity in your fingers so you can jam out on the guitar with ease.

0:30 - Open Chords

The chords you will be playing in this workout are A Major, D Major, and E Major which you'll eventually turn into an A7, D7, and E7 chord.

1:04 - Minor Pentatonic Scale

The scale you'll be encountering is the minor pentatonic scale. You'll be moving the scale around and add a few extra notes to it as well!

1:29 - 12-Bar Blues Progression

The practice starts with the open chords for a 12-bar blues progression. Follow along with Ayla and the chord charts to play in time with her! Repeat this step a couple of times to get your playing hand flowing.

2:58 - Changing Chords

You'll be doing the same progression but changing the chords to make it bluesier! You can play quarter notes or whole notes -- whatever you're vibing with!

4:06 - Changing strumming Pattern

Now you're gonna swing the strumming pattern by adding an up-strum to your chord progression.

5:17 - A Minor Pentatonic Scale

You'll be starting on the 5th fret -- Download the chart above to follow along with the minor pentatonic scale.

6:31 - F# Minor Pentatonic Scale

Now move the same scale down three frets and run through this scale a few times. It's great to practice both of these so you can solo over the chord progression you played earlier in the video.

7:05 - Add Extra Note

Go back to the A minor Pentatonic scale but add a sharp 4 note to give it more of a blues tone. This also is a great finger exercise to build dexterity.

8:33 - Major/Minor Hybrid Pentatonic Scale

Now do the same thing down three frets to turn this minor pentatonic into a hybrid scale.

9:40 - Dexterity Exercise

Use all of your fingers now to warm them all up, especially your middle finger (it hasn't moved much)! It also helps to keep your fingers as close to the strings as possible.

11:04 - Speed it Up

Keep doing what you're doing but now try speeding it up. Playing with a metronome will help with changing the tempo to improve your speed and timing.

11:32 - Triplets

You make it to the last exercise -- keep doing the same scale but now with triplets! It may be a bit difficult at first, but keep at it and you'll see improvement!

About Ayla Tesler-Mabe:
Ayla has been making waves in the world of guitar playing as a professional guitarist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer, since the early age of 14. After only been playing for two years, her first YouTube video (a rendition of John Mayall’s “Hideaway”) put her on the map and kickstarted her music career. She has since been featured in Rolling Stone magazine, become a member of the Ernie Ball and Fender family of artists, and earned various Berklee College of Music scholarships. Musically, Ayla finds great pleasure in exploring the numerous avenues available to her through various styles of music, as seen through her work with Calpurnia and Ludic.

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[tomsimon]

The Bob Ross of guitar instructors. You take all the stress out of learning. Thank you for sharing your gift. 👏

[IanJudge]

As a (very) amateurish home musician (in my 40’s) who started goofing around as a kid, I can only imagine what having the resources of these lessons would have contributed to my learning and enthusiasm back then. I think that the knowledge and talent being literally given away to young folks today is going to end up fostering some incredible artists. Thanks for your terrific videos.

[stillo]

you are an extremely pleasant teacher I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos you don't talk 100 miles an hour like everybody else does thank you very much for the lessons

[pumpkin]

You’re doing fantastic. Talking and playing. Everything is built on basics, no one is too good for them.

[stephenwalder]

As a musician and teacher who became profoundly deaf, your wonderful clear speech and playing has got me practising the old songs I remember, but my ears can't hear. Truly, the best 12 minutes I've had for ages. Big thanks.

[JimHawkins]

Some of the best guitar instructional videos anywhere online! Very professional and you explain concepts simply and clearly. You’re very positive, which is refreshing. You’re also a talented player. Keep smiling!

[thekymexperience]

You gave a gift for teaching! Please continue! You are talented and patient—a firm foundation for any teacher of any subject. 😊 🎸 🎵

[Greg-vdom]

Wow!....I am fast beaming a Ayla love the way you teach without any high pressure lessons are almost always great....so many things that you teach are so helpful for me learning this great instrument....Thank you,

[WhooozYourDaddy]

Big thank you. You are so engaging and clear. Your intent to really teach valuable lessons in an understandable way is appreciated. Now even before I even I hear the lesson I click on the thumbs up button, cause I just know it’s going to be very helpful. You put your heart into helping guitar students. Please keep making videos.

[jeremyparker]

I'm learning for the first time at 37 and really appreciate basics like this. I don't know what I don't know, I just know that I don't know a lot.

[ronaldscoggins]

Very cool! Thanks Ayla! I refer my students to this and your other vids all the time! Very gifted guitar player and teacher! Most of all Ayla’s not afraid to put in the work kids!

[youssefkasim]

Keep it up. These videos are really informative.

[solargalsolargal]

You are such a fabulous teacher! Love love. ❤️💕❣️

[jtforde]

❤ Thank you Ayla! You are a great instructor! Your warm, cheerful and ethusiastic teaching method puts me in a relaxed and open state of mind just a few seconds into your intro. You explain it all very clearly and demonstrate all the chord and scale fingerings at a speed I can visually follow where most instructors in YouTube videos go too fast. You're totally awesome!

[homerpyle]

Thank you very much for the encouragement and lessons.I started playing about five months ago and in one of the last videos, I learned to and play the A Minor Pentatonic Scale every time.
Now, I have some new cords to learn to try in succession as well as trying to keep the tempo.

[albertesposito]

I love the way you teach people how to play guitar you make it simple and fun. I can tell you really enjoy to teach people how to play. Thank you much appreciated.

[wvxcusu]

Hey thanks for that.
relaxed way of teaching and so easy to follow.

[OregonBreault]

Really appreciate your patient approach and positive attitude. You’ve made (re)learning my acoustic guitar -after too many years away - a very enjoyable experience.

[SS-fstw]

YAAASSSS!!! been looking for a routine like this since ever.. pls do more of these. pls pls pls..