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There are also many more excercises to properly separate/ strengthen the four fingers:
1.: put all four fingers on the high e on adjacent positions starting 10th fret lift you ring finger, and only your ring finger and use it to do continous hammerons/pulloffs on the 12th fret of the B string. Make it sound lound and clear, the end goal would be that it is so strong that you one can barely tell if its picked or only left hand (a la Guthrie Govan)
2.: Same thing, but now first finger E10, second finger B11, Ring finger B12, pinky E13. Again, hammer on and pull offs with the third finger (alternating between A# and B). I usually do both for 1 minutes as a part of a warm up routine
3.: Again on one string, bt this time each note is picked,alternating between the following pair of fingerings:
- 1234/1243
- 1324/1342
- 1423/1432
I do each fingering 5x and each pair thrice. Then shift positions.
4.: Take a Major 7 shape with root on D16, 3rd on G15, 5th on B14 and 7th on e13. Start lowering the notes of the chord by a half step one by one, starting with the 7th and, 5th and so on and sound each chord. Once you reach E1, then go back up. When I first started this, I couldn't go all the way and needed to reposition my left hand fingers with my right hand. That's OK, because the idea is to make the stretch and get your muscles to hol the shape. Eventually they will get all the way and you can start worrying about grabbing each note right behind the fret not to pull them sharp and obviously the ultimate goall is to lose the "deathgrip" and do the shifts effortlessy.
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There are also many more excercises to properly separate/ strengthen the four fingers:
1.: put all four fingers on the high e on adjacent positions starting 10th fret lift you ring finger, and only your ring finger and use it to do continous hammerons/pulloffs on the 12th fret of the B string. Make it sound lound and clear, the end goal would be that it is so strong that you one can barely tell if its picked or only left hand (a la Guthrie Govan)
2.: Same thing, but now first finger E10, second finger B11, Ring finger B12, pinky E13. Again, hammer on and pull offs with the third finger (alternating between A# and B). I usually do both for 1 minutes as a part of a warm up routine
3.: Again on one string, bt this time each note is picked,alternating between the following pair of fingerings:
- 1234/1243
- 1324/1342
- 1423/1432
I do each fingering 5x and each pair thrice. Then shift positions.
4.: Take a Major 7 shape with root on D16, 3rd on G15, 5th on B14 and 7th on e13. Start lowering the notes of the chord by a half step one by one, starting with the 7th and, 5th and so on and sound each chord. Once you reach E1, then go back up. When I first started this, I couldn't go all the way and needed to reposition my left hand fingers with my right hand. That's OK, because the idea is to make the stretch and get your muscles to hol the shape. Eventually they will get all the way and you can start worrying about grabbing each note right behind the fret not to pull them sharp and obviously the ultimate goall is to lose the "deathgrip" and do the shifts effortlessy.
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But you have guitars to do the exercises on. 
