Kite Guitar Exercises and Techniques

Kite Giedraitis's exercises and techniques for the Kite Guitar:

• 1 Before You Get Your Kite Guitar
• 2 Exercises and Techniques for Players
  • 2.1 Vocal Exercises
  • 2.2 Parallel Thirds
  • 2.3 Half-fret Bends
  • 2.4 The Circle of 5ths
  • 2.5 Moving by Plain Minor 2nds
  • 2.6 Leaping by 5ths, 8ves and Unisons
  • 2.7 Combination Exercises
  • 2.8 Alternate Fingering Techniques
    • 2.8.1 Cross-fret barre
    • 2.8.2 Harmonics
  • 2.9 Quarter-fret Bends, Sixth-fret Bends, etc.
    • 2.9.1 Primes 11 and 13
• 3 Exercises and Techniques for Composers and Arrangers
  • 3.1 Interesting Root Movements
  • 3.2 Harmonizing Chromatic Melodies
  • 3.3 Rotations aka Inversions
    • 3.3.1 Motivating Example
    • 3.3.2 Rotating an Interval
    • 3.3.3 Rotating a Melody
    • 3.3.4 Rotating a Chord
    • 3.3.5 Rotating a Chord Progression
    • 3.3.6 Rotating an Entire Song
  • 3.4 The Big Switcheroo
  • 3.5 Modulation via Dim7 Chords

Kite Guitar Exercises and Techniques by Aaron Solomon-Filer

Guitar teachers, add your own exercises and/or techniques here, or make your own page of exercises!