Alright, what's up players! This is Mike Deiure from Rock Guitar Power and I've got another short video to show you another finger warm up exercise to work on. So this one is definitely going to involve playing and it's also going to help warm up both hands, which I really like. Whenever I could find things that are more efficient, I am always all for it. So this is a good exercise to do for both hands. I learned this one, I think a long time ago from a guitar magazine, either a Guitar Player or Guitar World. I remember there been an article that I think was written by Steve Morse and he talked about this exercise that he likes to do a lot and I learned it and definitely as a keeper, so I use it all the time. I pretty much use this exercise every time I pick up my guitar because it's so efficient at warming up both hands.
So I am going to play it for you and then I'll talk about all the things to keep in mind when you do it. I will also post the actual guitar sheet music tabs for this exercise on probably the Members section of the Rock Guitar Power website. So if you haven't checked that out, it's at RockGuitarPower.com and at the bottom of the page there's a tab for the Members section, so check that out. So here's the exercise and then I'll play it and then I'll talk about it.
So I played it nice and slow and steady for you. That's definitely the way you are going to want to start this one out. I do like getting this going pretty fast though, because that's what helps to really get the muscles loosened up. But just to show you technique wise, I am not going to go in and talk about every note I played, that you can just learn from the sheet music. But technique wise here's what you want to keep in mind.
The first thing is that you don't want any of the notes ringing into each other. So if you noticed in my left hand when I play it, each finger comes off the note after it has done playing. If I just play one bar of this and repeat it, this is how it looks. So watch my left hand. Every finger comes up and off each note. The opposite would be like this where I just hold down the whole chord. Now this doesn't sound too bad with the clean tone, but if I switch to a distortion tone, you get a lot of nasty overtones. This is a lot of fun to do with a palm mute on, like that.
Now the other thing to keep in mind in my right hand is to use strict alternate picking. So when I do this I am going to go down, up, down, up. Let me do it one more time; down, up, down, up. Also there is a string skip throughout the whole exercise, so we are playing on the A, D and then B strings. So that string skip is one of the things that makes this a really good warm up exercise for your right hand. Because when you get going, tempo wise, it starts to get a little tricky but also a lot of fun too.
Cool! So that's the exercise. I'll probably do it like 4-5 times because it goes pretty quick. So that is one of the other main exercises I use to warm up and get going on a good session of playing and practicing.
Have fun, and we'll talk to you soon.
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