WTF?! This is first time I heard someone practising finger strength using rubber bands!

The secret here is not to train your fingers to fret hard on the strings, but to accustom your fingers to the motion of fretting... Doing scale routines will do just fine, like chromatic runs...

Do not just practise scales and learn theories... Make it a habit to always do improvisation exercises with a chord progression or a backing track. This expands your knowledge on melody and helps develope your own set of sounds...

You need to get to a stage where someone plays a chord progression, any progression and you can improv over it with melodies and phrasings that at least have some musicality in it... and only by then, you will actually start progressing as a musician..

This post has been edited by nkphnx: Oct 17 2008, 09:57 PM