--- product_id: 958552 title: "Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio" price: "S/.144" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/958552-guitar-aerobics-a-52-week-one-lick-per-day-workout store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # multi-genre technique focus 365 daily exercises gradual speed progression Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio **Price:** S/.144 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎸 Unlock your inner guitar hero—one lick a day keeps the plateau away! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio - **How much does it cost?** S/.144 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/958552-guitar-aerobics-a-52-week-one-lick-per-day-workout) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Audio-Enhanced Practice:** Includes rhythm and example tracks to keep your timing sharp and your practice engaging. - • **Multi-Genre Versatility:** Rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, funk—train your chops across styles to stay versatile and relevant. - • **Daily Dose of Guitar Mastery:** 52 weeks, one lick per day to build unstoppable technique. - • **Comprehensive Technique Coverage:** Alternate picking, sweep picking, legato, string skipping & more—master all core skills. - • **Structured Progression for Real Growth:** Slow, steady increase in difficulty ensures lasting improvement without burnout. ## Overview Guitar Aerobics is a 52-week, daily practice program designed by a former Guitar One editor to systematically improve guitar technique. Covering essential skills like alternate picking, sweep picking, legato, and string skipping, it offers a gradual, structured approach with audio support across multiple genres. Ideal for beginners to intermediate players aiming for consistent, measurable progress through deliberate daily practice. ## Description From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned for a full 52 weeks. The guitar exercises cover several musical styles including rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase your speed and improve your dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy the more you practice them. Review: One of the best guitar technique books around - Final update: after 6 months of working through this book I can say it have improved my playing a lot especially when used in conjunction with fretboard freedom Aerobics and Rhythm Guitar 365. One thing that is clear is that this book can and should be regularly revisited and practiced. I think it will continue to be a fixture in my practice regime as many exercises are excellent warmup exercises. My right hand technique has improved leaps and bounds. Even after months I don’t think I have mastered the material. Week 36 update: 3/4 complete and down the home stretch. As you go through the second half, the exercises do get more difficult, but remain a steady progression. I have not gotten stuck on any particular lesson that I couldn’t at least do 90% speed after 30 minutes of focused practice. Well, except for sweep picking. The great thing about this book, is just when the exercises start to get familiar, they change to something new. So there are similar exercises, which actually helps to integrate what you are learning. Week 26 update: I still really like this book and recommend it. The difficulty of the exercises does get progressively harder. But it’s done in such a gradual manner that you will barely notice if you did each exercise as directed. If anything it became a little easier by the time I got to week 26 since I started as beginner. I have noticed that my bends have become more accurate, and alternate picking string skipping and Travis picking have become noticeably better. Sweep picking and tapping are not as advanced, but that should get more attention in the second half. This book is really focused on technique and right hand practice which is exactly what I wanted. While each exercise is only two or 4 bars, there is a lot going on in each exercise. I would recommend only doing 1-2 hours a day max, and one or two exercises a day. That is more than plenty. Since this book is about building skill and technique as opposed to information, taking it slow and really mastering each exercise is key to getting the most out this book. I would only memorize those licks that you want to integrate into your soloing bag of tricks. I love the approach of this book and the authors other 365 series of books: Rhythm Guitar 365 and Fretboard Freedom. All three books could form the basis of a great daily practice routine. What makes this book and the other 365 books great is that they give you something new to work on every day. This is a great way to engage in deliberate practice and improve your play dramatically. You don’t have to think about or plan your routine, you just need to open the book and go. Guitar Aerobics is an excellent book to really get your technique chops in order. You will see Your picking technique improve dramatically and become intuitive as you work through this book. This book has a rather focused approach on what is covered and I love it for it. It is useful for beginners through intermediate players. I think even advanced players will get a workout out of the latter lessons. I would say it is the easiest of the author’s book in this series. But he gives you lots of reputation to really get the knowledge down cold. You defiantly get your money’s worth. It progresses at a very manageable pace, but If you approach the book as intended every day you have a great way to warmup a daily practice regime. The audio samples are good and very helpful to understand what you need to play. If you really want to supercharge your guitar progress I recommend getting all three of his 365 books and do a lesson or two a day from each for a year, I guarantee you will see dramatic results. Will you be Steve Vai? No, but you will be able to taller Steve Vai’s famous 10 hour practice routine. Don’t skip the audio files, use them to really see how well you are playing. Review: Great book to enhance your skills with 3 periodic updates (and finished review) - Ok, I enjoy this book but you have to create you own strategy around it. I like learning a new lesson every day. It motivates me to pick up the guitar and go right to this book and learn something new. It fits exactly to my style of learning. I am not a DVD guy and this helps give me what I need to do to keep progressing my skills. I also am developed my own strategy. I plan on redoing every daily lesson in a 10 week block. So, I start on Week one. By Week 10, I still practice my warm ups on Week 1 on every day and then I go all the way up to the most recent day lesson. Then when I get to the 11th week, I start on warm ups on Week 2 and play them all up to week 11. So, I am constantly practicing each daily exercise to make them more precise. I don't play one and then forget it. I play it every day for 10 weeks straight. Now, I am only up to week 8, I haven't essentially implemented this strategy but for now, it is my plan on doing so. Overall, the book is great for my ability to play and learn. I hope to start his other books when I complete this in August 2017. ***UPDATE#1: I have finished week 26 and still do the past 10 weeks of exercises. I am happy that I half way done and I have a couple things to note. First, my finger strength is really getting good. I can tell because I use one of those gimmicky 4 finger exercise tools and it is getting easier to do it, especially my pinky finger. But I also do daily extra finger exercises outside this book that I copied from YouTube. I am also learning the full Rust in Peace album by Megadeth. I started around the same time, I started guitar aerobics, working in them daily and I have to admit, it is getting easier to play those songs. Don't get me wrong, it has been a lot of work and I am no where near completing those songs but it is slowly getting easier to play. On average, I put in at least 90 minutes a day on guitar. In the past 200 days, I only missed 24 days of playing (11 of which was because I had surgery). I am still excited about this book and already have purchased Fretboard Freedom to start when I finish this book in August (hopefully). *** UPDATE#2: I just finished week 37. I am still progressing along pretty good. As other mentioned the daily lessons get repetitive but I tend to think it reinforces technique over and over to master it. I keep working pretty hard on clarity of notes and precision and I think going over similar structure is really beneficial to developing long term technique. For example, I find sweep picking easier and easier to do and now I implement subtle sweep picking into my improvising. I only have 15 more weeks to go (+10 extra weeks of follow up - as mentioned above) and less than 4 months feels like I am finally seeing the end at the light of the tunnel. I still recommend this book but it does take time to really fully dedicate to it. You really need to commit the time. I have a friend that recommended this book to me and he admires my tenacity at keeping up with it, he says he doubt he could've. With where I am at, I am committed to finishing the book and I started pre-reading Fretboard Freedom, so I can pick up when I finish Guitar Aerobics. ** FINAL UPDATE: Today, I just finished the last lesson. I feel this took my guitar playing ability to play to a whole new level. But this was a lot of work! I can easily tell that I am faster, more precise and my overall fretboard and music knowledge is 100x more than I started this. I am still weaning myself off the final weeks, like I explained above but each lesson, I feel I've mastered each lesson because of the time I took to really listen, practice and learn each lesson. Playing the same lesson over and over for 10 weeks, really helps make you think and sink in all the small thing of each lesson to perfect it. Now, I will start Arpeggio Madness by Rusty Cooley, then in 2 months start Troy Nelson's Fretboard Freedom and repeat Guitar Aerobics for the 2nd time in parallel with Fretboard Freedom. And I've already bought Troy Nelson's Rhythm 365 to start when I finish Fretboard Freedom/Guitar Aerobics tandem in 2018. I can say, I am a total fan of Troy's books and method of learning. If you want to get better at guitar, it is a no brainier. Get this book but be prepared to work! ## Features - Once-per-day exercises cover:Alternate pickingArpeggiosSweep pickingString skippingLegatoString bendingRhythm guitar ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,406 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #9 in Guitar Tools | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,285 Reviews | ## Images ![Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71d6H8U-ZpL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the best guitar technique books around *by M***A on July 28, 2020* Final update: after 6 months of working through this book I can say it have improved my playing a lot especially when used in conjunction with fretboard freedom Aerobics and Rhythm Guitar 365. One thing that is clear is that this book can and should be regularly revisited and practiced. I think it will continue to be a fixture in my practice regime as many exercises are excellent warmup exercises. My right hand technique has improved leaps and bounds. Even after months I don’t think I have mastered the material. Week 36 update: 3/4 complete and down the home stretch. As you go through the second half, the exercises do get more difficult, but remain a steady progression. I have not gotten stuck on any particular lesson that I couldn’t at least do 90% speed after 30 minutes of focused practice. Well, except for sweep picking. The great thing about this book, is just when the exercises start to get familiar, they change to something new. So there are similar exercises, which actually helps to integrate what you are learning. Week 26 update: I still really like this book and recommend it. The difficulty of the exercises does get progressively harder. But it’s done in such a gradual manner that you will barely notice if you did each exercise as directed. If anything it became a little easier by the time I got to week 26 since I started as beginner. I have noticed that my bends have become more accurate, and alternate picking string skipping and Travis picking have become noticeably better. Sweep picking and tapping are not as advanced, but that should get more attention in the second half. This book is really focused on technique and right hand practice which is exactly what I wanted. While each exercise is only two or 4 bars, there is a lot going on in each exercise. I would recommend only doing 1-2 hours a day max, and one or two exercises a day. That is more than plenty. Since this book is about building skill and technique as opposed to information, taking it slow and really mastering each exercise is key to getting the most out this book. I would only memorize those licks that you want to integrate into your soloing bag of tricks. I love the approach of this book and the authors other 365 series of books: Rhythm Guitar 365 and Fretboard Freedom. All three books could form the basis of a great daily practice routine. What makes this book and the other 365 books great is that they give you something new to work on every day. This is a great way to engage in deliberate practice and improve your play dramatically. You don’t have to think about or plan your routine, you just need to open the book and go. Guitar Aerobics is an excellent book to really get your technique chops in order. You will see Your picking technique improve dramatically and become intuitive as you work through this book. This book has a rather focused approach on what is covered and I love it for it. It is useful for beginners through intermediate players. I think even advanced players will get a workout out of the latter lessons. I would say it is the easiest of the author’s book in this series. But he gives you lots of reputation to really get the knowledge down cold. You defiantly get your money’s worth. It progresses at a very manageable pace, but If you approach the book as intended every day you have a great way to warmup a daily practice regime. The audio samples are good and very helpful to understand what you need to play. If you really want to supercharge your guitar progress I recommend getting all three of his 365 books and do a lesson or two a day from each for a year, I guarantee you will see dramatic results. Will you be Steve Vai? No, but you will be able to taller Steve Vai’s famous 10 hour practice routine. Don’t skip the audio files, use them to really see how well you are playing. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book to enhance your skills with 3 periodic updates (and finished review) *by P***E on October 11, 2016* Ok, I enjoy this book but you have to create you own strategy around it. I like learning a new lesson every day. It motivates me to pick up the guitar and go right to this book and learn something new. It fits exactly to my style of learning. I am not a DVD guy and this helps give me what I need to do to keep progressing my skills. I also am developed my own strategy. I plan on redoing every daily lesson in a 10 week block. So, I start on Week one. By Week 10, I still practice my warm ups on Week 1 on every day and then I go all the way up to the most recent day lesson. Then when I get to the 11th week, I start on warm ups on Week 2 and play them all up to week 11. So, I am constantly practicing each daily exercise to make them more precise. I don't play one and then forget it. I play it every day for 10 weeks straight. Now, I am only up to week 8, I haven't essentially implemented this strategy but for now, it is my plan on doing so. Overall, the book is great for my ability to play and learn. I hope to start his other books when I complete this in August 2017. ***UPDATE#1: I have finished week 26 and still do the past 10 weeks of exercises. I am happy that I half way done and I have a couple things to note. First, my finger strength is really getting good. I can tell because I use one of those gimmicky 4 finger exercise tools and it is getting easier to do it, especially my pinky finger. But I also do daily extra finger exercises outside this book that I copied from YouTube. I am also learning the full Rust in Peace album by Megadeth. I started around the same time, I started guitar aerobics, working in them daily and I have to admit, it is getting easier to play those songs. Don't get me wrong, it has been a lot of work and I am no where near completing those songs but it is slowly getting easier to play. On average, I put in at least 90 minutes a day on guitar. In the past 200 days, I only missed 24 days of playing (11 of which was because I had surgery). I am still excited about this book and already have purchased Fretboard Freedom to start when I finish this book in August (hopefully). *** UPDATE#2: I just finished week 37. I am still progressing along pretty good. As other mentioned the daily lessons get repetitive but I tend to think it reinforces technique over and over to master it. I keep working pretty hard on clarity of notes and precision and I think going over similar structure is really beneficial to developing long term technique. For example, I find sweep picking easier and easier to do and now I implement subtle sweep picking into my improvising. I only have 15 more weeks to go (+10 extra weeks of follow up - as mentioned above) and less than 4 months feels like I am finally seeing the end at the light of the tunnel. I still recommend this book but it does take time to really fully dedicate to it. You really need to commit the time. I have a friend that recommended this book to me and he admires my tenacity at keeping up with it, he says he doubt he could've. With where I am at, I am committed to finishing the book and I started pre-reading Fretboard Freedom, so I can pick up when I finish Guitar Aerobics. ** FINAL UPDATE: Today, I just finished the last lesson. I feel this took my guitar playing ability to play to a whole new level. But this was a lot of work! I can easily tell that I am faster, more precise and my overall fretboard and music knowledge is 100x more than I started this. I am still weaning myself off the final weeks, like I explained above but each lesson, I feel I've mastered each lesson because of the time I took to really listen, practice and learn each lesson. Playing the same lesson over and over for 10 weeks, really helps make you think and sink in all the small thing of each lesson to perfect it. Now, I will start Arpeggio Madness by Rusty Cooley, then in 2 months start Troy Nelson's Fretboard Freedom and repeat Guitar Aerobics for the 2nd time in parallel with Fretboard Freedom. And I've already bought Troy Nelson's Rhythm 365 to start when I finish Fretboard Freedom/Guitar Aerobics tandem in 2018. I can say, I am a total fan of Troy's books and method of learning. If you want to get better at guitar, it is a no brainier. Get this book but be prepared to work! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ vey good, but audio content could have been better organized *by R***N on August 15, 2010* I think this is a really good book. I wish the audio content that accompanies this book had been organized a little differently, though. This book comes with 2 CDs. The first CD has an audio track for each week. Each weekly track plays thru all the licks for that week so you can hear what they're supposed to sound like once you get really good at them. However, for example, you can't just select Thursday's lesson of week 1 - it's just one audio track for the entire week, so you have to listen thru the previous lessons for that week to get to the one you want (they are very short - just plays the lick for each day, but it is still frustrating to not be able to go directly to the exact lesson you are interested in). Disk 2 is a bunch of metronomes/rhythms at different speeds for each lesson that you can use to help get your timing down. So, for example, this is how you might use them: let's say you're on Friday's lesson of week 2. You put CD1 in and select the track for week 2 to listen to ALL of week 2's licks. Then, you take CD1 out and put CD2 in to play the rhythms/metronomes that go with that lesson (as indicated in the book for each lesson). But, if you want to hear the lick again you have to take out CD2 and put CD1 back in and then play thru the entire week's licks to get to the one you are practicing. What would have been really nice is if there was a separate audio track for each daily lesson that combines the example lick for that lesson along with the accompanying metronomes/rhythms. It's still a good book and the audio content is very helpful, just realize that it's a little cumbersome and frustrating to use the CDs that come with the book. As far as the book itself, there are a couple of things that I really like. First, each day's lesson shows the music with notes, the tab, the chords and the strum/picking pattern. So, if you're familiar with any one of those you can see how it relates to the others. Second are the repeating techniques each week. Every Monday is 'alternate picking', Tuesday is 'string skipping', Wednesday is 'string bending', Thursday is 'arpeggios', Friday is 'sweep picking', Saturday is 'legato' and Sunday is 'Rhythm'. Where appropriate they are related to each other and build upon each other as you progress from week to week. All in all this is a very good book and you will learn a lot of useful techniques. 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