Guitar Warm Up Exercise #3

What's up players! This is Mike Deiure from Rock Guitar Power and I've got another finger exercise video for you. This is one more exercise that I would like to do during my warm up routines. Typically, the whole routine I like to do, usually lasts no more than five minutes, and is really focused on getting both hands and fingers warmed up as soon as possible. So this is one more exercise that I actually learned from John Petrucci's Rock Discipline Video. I found it to be an awesome exercise that helps warm up both hands. So I'll play it for you and then we'll talk about a few things to keep in mind and also you could find the tab for this on the Rock Guitar Power website in the Members section. So here's the exercise.

So as you can see one of the things that's really good about this exercise is in the right hand. It just stays between two strings. So in the picking, when I do this, I am going to go down on the G string and up on the D string. So the picking pattern stays that way throughout the whole exercise. It's actually a pretty good strenuous workout for your right hand. So you'll start feeling that burn after you get the whole pattern down. Now with this, there is a learning process of just learning the left hand, making sure you get the notes right and the shapes right. Once you get that down and you have it memorized, you are able to move through these pretty quickly, and just focus on starting slow and increasing your tempo and just doing it a bunch of times to help get warmed up.

I am going to back to a clean tone. The other thing we want to keep in mind on my left hand is that there's a paddle tone on each bar of this. So there's a melody on the top and a repeated note on the bottom. So if you listen to this first one, I keep repeating the D string, the note F# here, while the melody plays. Then it goes to... So in each step of the exercise I have a paddle tone and then a melody on top. So those are the exercises or that's the other exercise that I like to use to warm up with.

In combination with that, the other exercise would sound like this and then the other stretching one that we talked about earlier. Those three things along with the regular hand exercise is here, what I like to do for my warm up. So do those every time you play and practice and you'll be sure to prevent damage to your hand from too much playing or at least you'll be warmed up so that when you really want to start shredding and putting in some hard work, your hands will be in shape to do it.

So have fun, play and practice hard, and we'll talk to you soon.


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