Guitar Exercises That Don't Suck
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the riff from sweet child o’ mine actually came from a practice exercise that slash was playing one day. so if you play that, not only will you be playing one of the most famous rock riffs of all time, you will be literally playing a practice exercise.
For downpicking, I use Metallica's Blackened, Master of Puppets, and Creeping Death. For alternate picking, I use Metallica's Fight Fire with Fire, Megadeth's Holy Wars and just about every Slayer song has a low E flat spam, so that helps as well.
same here ,besides i dont play slayer lol (too heavy for me yet lol) , i start with maiden then metallica
Johnny Mickem cool , do you play some maiden too? btw the stuff from megadeth is overall preety good
Johnny Mickem good choice man lol good luck and i agree , i started to play some skid row these days
Johnny Mickem i will sound so funny now lol but i started by playing metallica on acoustic , it was nothing else matters
But what about alternate picking thats not just spamming 1 string?
How about the flight of the bumblebee? A sick chromatic, cool sounding, alternate picking, string skipping warm up: awesome.
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My favorite warm up/practice song - Hotel California. Covers arp picking, chords, riffs...everything
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Snow is one of those songs that sounds easy but is actually tough. I have to sweep it to play it up to speed. It's still way faster than you're playing it. A lot of John's RHCP riffs are good for practice just like this one, like under the bridge for strum rhythms and can't stop for muting. I've found a lot of improvement playing August Burns Red verses for jumping between strings quickly while palm muting and there's a band called good old war with some songs that are amazing for practicing accurate strumming . (sorry I don't know what the exact strumming technique he uses would be called, check out any of their songs, Better Weather being a good example)
Ryndan Riley fuck me i can't do the muting on can't stop
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I fingerpick
Foo fighters- My Hero. Fairly easy to play. I stick on the song and play along that's where it's get tricky but it's sounds so good. And helps with timing etc. Tried playing it today with the track background for the first time. Didn't do too bad job. Will be doing it more from now on. And I only started playing 5 or so months ago.
My guitar teacher from about 35 years ago was cool like that. One of my earliest lessons was the beginning of Ozzy's "Crazy Train". I still use it occasionally to this day, as its a nice stretch and warm-up. Then, after he saw some improvement in your playing, he'd have you bring in a cassette tape (yes, they did exist! Google it!) with a song you wanted to learn. Bit by bit, he'd figure it out, quickly jot down the tableture, and then teach me the bit. I think I drove him crazy with the music I was bringing. Slayer, Exodus, Destruction, etc. I remember him grumbling about how many riff changes there were in this one Exodus song. But the old hippy always sounded right on, no matter how fast or difficult it got. A friend of mine stayed on with him for some time, eventually learning classical guitar. Im not nearly as good as my friend, but the teacher got me playing quickly because he made it fun to learn.
yeah snow! I remember when I started playing guitar and wanted to learn that song, it seemed impossible! for a long time I practiced it super slow, nad had fun doing it because,john is my guitar hero! now that I can play it upto speed, I can see how far i have come
Green & Blue I agree! I remember looking up the song a long time ago and just told myself "this is impossible" and now I can see how much I progressed
i felt the same!
Green & Blue same here, john is my absolute hero. At the start I thought it was impossible, I practiced like 2 hours every day and now I can play it easily. I just look back and go wow how much I progressed
Pedro Cabral yeah! i felt the same when I finally did it
That g major scale Is giving me flashbacks
Downpicking: use the golden three riffs (blackened, MoP, creeping death)
Fast alternate picking: Holy Wars and Fight Fire With Fire
Building fast picking: Afterlife and Scream (A7X)
Also PERFORMANCE. I play the Beast and The Harlot verse riff to get better at playing while performing. Suprisingly important.
I love practicing the intro from Cry of Achilles for my hybrid picking
This.
Don't close your eyes
+Aliens Exist something beautiful is still alive
me too^^ what a coincidence...
I've been doing this type if exercises with Randy Rhoads solo licks and scales for years and it really helps to play fast and improvise
The intro to Beyond The Dark Sun by Wintersun is my current sweeping exercise. It's way more fun than playing one arpeggio repeatedly.
Same here dude! Can you play it up to speed yet?
I've always wanted to learn how to play the guitar, but the beginning seemed so slow and frustrating
Then you better get started asap so you can get over the beginning as quick as possible.
Lamerak Best strategy i have seen
Isn't that a Yousician reference?
Growth is momentum based, gettig from nothing to something is tough, but your progress gets faster, and learning new techniques not only makes you more comprehensive overall, but it can unlock progression in areas you get stuck, while keeping your practice fresh.
Just a meme guys... Wouldnt know How to live without playin the blues
Classical music is good for practicing.
But ... how to make a guitarist stop playing? Put notes in front of him!!!))
I know how to read sheet music and know some basic theory but it takes like 2 hours to learn a riff while tabs can reduce it to like 10-15 minutes
Me too. I started with sheet music. It is great for instruments where there is exactly one way to play a note but it does not tell you anything about fret positions. The whole pissing on tab deal is not just condescending, it's dumb. I read sheet music looking at both the staff (usually better at denoting rhythm and left hand fingering) and tab. Furthermore, you have the odder guitar techniques where you grace-gliss down into a note 8 frets above (Vai). Good luck reverse engineering those techniques using the staff!
true but only if you don't know treble clef, like myself. I hate reading music. too many symbols
How to make a classical musician stop playing? Tell them to learn it by ear.
My point is you need to work on a bit of everything with music.
Павел Макееў I am 12 and I studied classic music and music theory since I was 7. Once you get used to it, it is easy to read sheet. It took me a while but you can easily do it after the first year.
You're actually playing Snow the right way, at least with the right hand. John Frusciante does alternate pick it, and it actually accent a few particular notes. Left hand wise, Frusciante plays it with only 3 fingers.
Try alternate picking it. You'll actually enjoy it once you get it right :)
@@ryndanriley5348 He can actually play it at speed
Note: listening to progressive metal helps with this alot.
Ikr
NatFlaps agree
definitely
I want to practice alternate picking with my favorite song "Master Of Puppets" xD
an awesome excercise in fluidity and sweep picking is a bridge in john 5's "27 needles". i struggled playing it correctly for a week, just getting the chord positions correctly (it's basically e and em barre positions in a neo-classical vibe, with a fast tempo), then once i did that, i unplugged my electric, slowed it the hell down, and went at it until it sounded flawless. upped the tempo, plugged the guitar clean, did it again. now, i play it flawlessly with high gain, and even if it sounds good when i flub it, i know i played it sloppy. keeps me sharp, since it's mostly wrist-work and finger stretching. when warming up, i do it slow, then halfway through a band practice after riffing for an hour, i'll do it at speed to stretch out my fingers. warning: you will seem like a showoff until you explain the point of the excercise. in general, practice hard licks on the clean channel. once you get it down clean, you'll never struggle with more gain. i force my students to practice tapping on clean for the movement, and then once that's down, all they have to concentrate on is muting strings correctly.
For me, the exercise that made me want to play with the guitar and have it not feel like practice was taking a lick I was working on, as you suggested in the video, and repeating it on a backing track. I am using the exact same hand motions but I vary the speed, I repeat bits of it that I think I have not got down, try to make some bits faster than other bits, basically bend that initial lick into something almost not recognizable. Somehow, if I accentuate it properly, it sounds like I'm saying something with that lick, it's absolutely awesome! Can't recommend it enough.
Great video, great advice. Scales can be useful, but just drilling them makes it very easy to fall into the trap of having issues with musicality. I've been doing what you suggest here for a while now with a few Angel Vivaldi licks, and it's helped me tremendously.
Also - I am absolutely in love with that honeyburst Strat hanging behind you.
dude..... smartest way to break it down ever! ii have friends that think i'm some great guitar player, and brother, i'm far from it..... but i guess i'm a good "utility" player? anyways... this is one approach that i always tell my less experienced friends to look into. find a guitar player you like. every one of them has a "formula" to their style. study their style enough and you will unlock that formula. then it'll blow your mind how easy the rest of it comes. it's like getting the key to that door that opens up a new, much larger room to play in. till you find the key to the next, larger room........ :)
I practice with The exercises from "Speed Kills" And "Intense Rock Vol1" DVDs
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me too , and if someone is reading this then i will say that if you stick to exercises then you will really improve ., its been almost 5 years since i saw intense rock vol.1 and now i can alt. pick pretty good, i have almost no problem in playing songs like technical difficulties , good luck and remember practicing 6-8 hrs daily is the key
I don't think it so. There're no benefits in practice 1hour extremely focused and the others 5-7 almost sleeping. You have to give your body and mind a time to relax between these hours, if you are tired, stop playing, you'll only lose your time. It's not bodybuilding, "no pain, no gain". You have to create muscle memory and not muscle muscles xD
And another thing:
It's not about quantity, but quality! You have to practice focused on what you are doing. Each note has to be perfect at slow speed. Precise and clear.
Yeah, who spend more time practicing guitar, probably, will have better results, but obviously, it's not about time.
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MrDavi2751 ok man but i love playing and i never get tired if it 1 hr or 12hrs , and i am focused for all the time i practice but yeah like tou said these things are different for everyone i guess
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Yes yes, of course!! You're right! =D
hello my fav guitarist is herman li (no meme/joke) what should i play ez cuz i mean with my skill i can play only like lil wayne
Play slowly using a metronome. If you have lil wayne'skill at guitar(which I highly doubt it lol). Use something around 40 BPM maybe? All jokes aside you get the idea.
If you don't need auto tune for guitar, you're better than lilwayne. If you know the proper way to play a guitar, you are better than lil Wayne. Honestly, when I started out I sounded more like Nick Jonas, who sucks, but is also better than lil Wayne.
TAD 925 well I'm now a bit better trying to learn some tallica songs, and get used to that 4 fret ring finger thing, I'm rly stuggling with
Bar chords can be hard at first, but once your fingers get the strength it's waayyy easier. I guess you have it down now 8 months later? lol
practice everyday strictly till it's fun 👉
I taught myself (or as much as you can teach yourself these days, with many friends' input and guidance and of course the internet etc etc) but I automatically chose a song to just run with. Throws you in the deep end, and if you persevere even slightly - took me a month or so to get one song - you come out smiling. First song I learned was Classical Gas, bit of a guitarist cliche, but so much fun to play and be honest it sounds great. But all those boring exercises are so much easier now because I have learned a lot of very face paced chord changes and alternate finger picking methods. Started even picking out my own little pieces - it's a good method friends !!!
Crystal Mountain by Death is my go to for when I first pick my guitar. It's simple enough but is good to practice alt. picking at certain points in the song. But the song is just awesome tbh!
Plays Cliffs of Dover w/o strat.
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I'm bassist and I must say that what you said appliesalso for bass. I practice not only a chromatic exercices but as you suggested over licks, songs and riffs. I pick some of song part and I practice a different things over them. It is very cool. For example on one riff from my band's song one day I train alternate picking, other day muting technique and some other dynamics etc. Of course chromatic or over scales exercices can be much useful for psychical abbilities but practicing over music is more efficient for developing music sense. :)
Paradigm, the stage, god damn, sunny disposition, Buried Alive and afterlife by Avenged Sevenfold. Snow, under the bridge, by the way, cant stop, wet Sand pretty little ditty by red hot chili peppers, everloving by moby, slow dancing in a burning room by John Mayer and minor swing by Django Reinhardt are probably my go to riffs and licks. Perhaps there also is Some Paul Gilbert, Hendrix and Marty friedman in there too
Tornado of Souls by Megadeth. You know the riff I mean. It took me forever to learn it and it helps a lot to learn how to sync your picking hand with your fret hand when using different picking techniques.
Great advice man, i actually do the same. I’ve been playing almost 2 years now so it means that im still a beginner but felt the same everytime i played those boring exercises. Instead i choose to play John Petrucci legato tecnic licks from first fret until twelve but i can only play from first fret to 4rth fret because it really hurts in my fingers and i really got annoyed those unneccessary noises.But anyway, once again you’re awesome.🤘
BTO's Looking Out For #1 for jazz fingering and the intro to "Find Out About Love" - starts at open low E and builds to a 16th note on the GBE at 12. The high notes are tight and can really cramp you up. In fact, the entire "Head On" album has some seriously sweet hand off's between Randy and Blair.
This reminded me that the opening riff of "Sweet Child of Mine" was one of Slash's string-skipping exercises.
Bullet For My Valentine's "Waking The Demon" has a nice scale run thingy in the solo.
I also warm up with the Cowboys From Hell solo. It was the second solo I ever learned, and it was such a struggle to learn it in time for my music exam in 9th grade, but it's become burned into my brain and fingers. I could play it blindfolded back then, probably not anymore
We play snow in my school's pep band and it is a KILLER on the hand especially when you play the whole song like we do
Tyler you're one of the best teachers on UA-cam you really know how to make wanna practice thank u very much for all the amazing advices 😘💕
I'm a new player, New as in Im coming up on two months. I'm practicing the riff from Ozzy Osbournes crazy train. Nearly there. I've learned a bunch of things that sound good and I've just tried to play them consistant and quicker and quicker every time. Thanks for this it's gonna help
i had picked up afterlife for my sweep picking. Been using this technique for a while now. Good to see i'm not on the wrong track
I love down to Mexico by Paul Gilbert in intense rock techniques II. But scales and chords and arpeggios you just have to sit down and yeah, memorize
0:19 after that super loud Snnnhhhhheeeeee i tought he was gonna talk super loud too. But he just downed the volume like what? 99 or something? You got my approvel hand sir for that incredible jump scare. A nice one.
Great points - I have go to artists - Paul Gilbert/alternate picking , vai or satch /legato , string skipping and percussive awesomeness /Nuno bettencourt etc
Just started playing the intro to Stevie Rays Pride and Joy as a warm up. Great way to get some rhythm guitar practice.
my warm up routine strats with playing till my 22 fret on all strings using all strings, then e minor and a minor scale run and then iron maiden or metallica licks ,riff and solos , i found out it helps me to improve my speed and alternate picking
Lol we have a similar warm-ups, I just push myself to get in a bit of site reading notes
Sup... I suck... Trying to get finger memetry for the C chord...
Gem by Eric Johnson is a really good song to learn for an intermediate guitarist in my opinion, one of the few of his songs that you don’t need to be an amazing shredder to play from beginning to end it’s also very to play along and has motivated me a lot to keep picking up the guitar
The beginning riff in Dream Theater's Erotomania is a fun practice exercise also. Gets the fingers working. Some of the examples you used took me back to those pre-internet days... back to the old REH Paul Gilbert video (on VCR)... and back when Satriani had exercises available in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. Holy crap, I suddenly feel old, hahahahaha. Good stuff, though.
I'm a new player, New as in Im coming up on two months. I'm practicing the riff from Ozzy Osbournes crazy train. Nearly there. I've learned a bunch of things that sound good and I've just tried to play them consistant and quicker and quicker every time. Thanks for this it's gonna help the
Subscribed because you played SNOW. I never get sick of playing that riff.
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I play everyday snow by red hot or little wing...for the style I want to play it's my favourite exercise at moment...saluti e complimenti from Italy
Was about to type snow, but you covered that one up. Also cliffs of Dover. Neon for the thumb slap & snap. Boy it does miracles for the guitar slap technique. Used to practice immigrant song for the string skipping during first months. All my practice routine is made from the difficult bits of music that are inspiring enough to stick to and challenging in the long run.
One thing I did whilst learning scales is to find a backing track and just improvise using that scale. It helped me memorize them and it was very fun doing it.
what is the name of the Satriani song you are playing mate?
Late to the party, but I think that one's called Baroque, if memory serves.
@@onevoiceinc thanks, I'll look it up
ua-cam.com/video/tyhzdZYTWzY/v-deo.html this is very useful to learn the song
I love (😭) practicing wintersun riffs, they are full of string skipping, sweeping, and alternate picking licks!
Crazy Train and Sweet Child O Mine and a part of Eruption are my go to's.
For arpeggios and alternate picking, try the slower Mr Crowley solo/bridge and the Highway Star solo
Learning crazy train has not worked out for me, but it's certainly made my soloing much better
Love the fact that the riff from Snow was mentioned, as it's one of my favorite exercises as well, but a little disappointed that you don't seem to consider John Frusciante a guitar god.
I play Snow the same way, except the first shape I used the little finger for the hammer/pull off. I know Frusciante does it slightly differently, raising the fingers before the hammer, but I let everything ring and only move one finger per shape. It's trickier, but it helps my finger independence/rhythm no end.
Try it on an acoustic for added masochism.
I often use Al DiMeola licks for alternate picking practice. A lot of the more difficult Metallica riffs for downstroke and tremolo picking practice.
Another tip: Learn on acoustic first.
It's harder to play (higher string tension), so your strength will be better when you get to electric.
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Duke Ukulele ???
There's a lot of stuff that makes sense to practice only on the electric. I feel there's no point in practicing the same stuff on two separate instruments.
Ravi Teja Like what
HeyZeus096 Bends, vibratos, sweep picking, not that you can't do these on an acoustic....well whatever suits best I guess....
Awesome advice Tyler, I learned to practice what I am working on. If I am working on learning different modes of the major scale then that is part of my exercise. I am also working on Eugene's Trick Bag. Finally have all notes memorized now just trying to get up to speed.
Thanks! Starting to add these (& the ones that suck) into my routine today.
Branching off of some stuff that you’ve taught me. I prefer to use smaller licks from solos I enjoy listening to as warmups and technique sharpeners.
Just found this - thanks for the the tips! Been working on alternate and sweep picking from "Modern Guitar Techniques". Need to get back to GSS 1&2 too. But for some reason they want to me to show up to work everyday - LOL!
Well now I have "Snow" stuck in my head. Thanks a lot.
The intro is the first excercise my grandpa taught me when I was 7
Hey, will you ever talk about some classical music? It's going to be cool. Currently learning Fur Elise and I think that you might do something pretty badass on the subject.
Thanks for the video, what's the name of that Joe Satriani lick?
The intro of Scarified by Racer X (Paul Gilbert)
I like playing the intro to Metallica's Call of Ktulu, it is good for warming up my picking and fretting hands, but another one I like for my fretting hand is from Team Fortress 2, It's called More Gun and it's fun to play.
whic one Joe Satriani song is that lick from?
Sounds like " Why" from the Exremist
I just watched three or four of your videos in a row. Great teaching style and some lovely soloing. Subscribed! Win!
My go-to riffercises:
- the descending Em pentatonic run in the intro to "Chinatown" by Thin Lizzy. I play it at position II so it's one of the odder boxes (Albert King box) and it's a good pinky pull-off exercise;
- the first bar from the string-skipping section of "Norwegian Cowbell" by Paul Gilbert. The whole section is one of my favourite guitar solos but I'm crap so I just practice that bar over and over, slowly ^-^;
- the intro lick from "Strange Kind Of Woman" by Deep Purple. Such good riff! Such good notes! And it gives my pinky a little action;
- the ascending lick at the start of the "Sweet Child Of Mine" solo when Slash takes his foot off the brake;
- not sure if they count but the two full-bar riffs at the end of the "And So I Know" solo from Stone Temple Pilots. I usually play them separately over and over.
right now i work on building up speed when switching strings... so i chose "periphery - Alpha" that verse is some good shit
Why MIW? Because it makes me want to be a better guitar player. And it's helping me get there. More so than anything else out there. Grateful and living in the U.S.
My favourite exercise lick is The fast riff from The song Black Sabbath.
you are the best guitarist motivator on youtube!!!
Are you saying that Mr Frusciante isn't a guitar hero? ;) Great advice dude, been playing Snow a year and still haven't cracked it. Will have to try and find more licks that work well. Subscribed :)
Playing some riffs or licks slow can be great as a warm up and yes some boring stuff (what you think is boring) might be nessacary especiallly if you want to learn some theory stuff.
the anastasia (slash) electric beginning is what i use to warm up, i usually start it slowly and eventually get to almost double of the original speed
The Chilli riff is actually my way of warming too for a long time, hahaha!
snow(hey oh) rhcp is a good one for speed and also hammer ons and pull offs plus its a gr8 sounding riff
What's the Joe Satriani one?
Plug In Baby by Muse and Under The Bridge by RHCP are my go to exercise songs
yeah that snow riff is just too damn brutal..
Jazz is THE best style for dexterity and finger power
Thank you for a great advice and especially for this riff.
Qathank god.... Finally somebody who says something I agree with and doesn't make it sound like practice has to be awful
Thanks Tylor!
You and I share the same philosophy on guitar. You are wayy better than I.Thanks for your channel. Subbed!
if anyone wants to improve their downpicking, master of puppets or creeping death (both are by metallica) are really good, especially creeping death.
I also recommend John Mayer's Edge of Desire main riff as an excercie - it's a little tricky at first ;)
Best advice I've heard in a looooong time 👍👍
I just play system of a down songs from mezmerize and hypnotize because they're my favourite band and each song has different skills to practice. My Alternate picking is way faster thanks to them and sad statue helps a lot with hammer on/pull off speed. A lot more than that but those are some examples.
Oh SWEET! I was already practicing parts of solos from my favorite songs slowly with a metronome then speeding it up. I thought that maybe I wasn't suppose to do that, but Music is Win pretty much just confirmed it is a good idea, score!
btw Clint Eastwood face @ 0:11
For that Eric Johnson lick you really can not use a metronome because its like a non in time free intro thing like what is in some Jazz music. It would be best to just listen to the song a bunch and then try to match the song onces you kind of get the lick and your speed with it up.
It's simple as hell. For legato practice Joe satriani songs, for alternate picking any Paul Gilbert song, for sweep picking Jason Becker, for hybrid picking Rick graham, for learning how to shred without a pick take lessons from Chris zoupa, for melodies learn from pink Floyd and satriani, for whammy bar techniques any Steve vai song, for playing a song without learning it learn from kmac,
Man, I should've watch these videos when I started learning guitar.
I learned nearly the entirety sweet child o mine as my first song and, although it did help me, it seemed like a little too much.
This is a really helpful video, thanks man...
the Infamous Hammer smashed face by Cannibal Corpse. I'm currently working on it. it has chord slides, super fast alternate picking, muscle memory training (the verse part) headbangable triplets, and finally which I'm really working on with, the pinch harmonics. I'm aiming to be a rock solid rhythm guitar player but i found playing lead sometimes is not a bad thing. oh yeah i forgot to mention this month is the 7th month i own this very Yamaha PAC112J and i still play like shit and feel like shit.
What if a riff is just not sounding right when you play it? is it too technically demanding or would you then be going about it wrong?