Thumbs up if you're trying these! I wanted to share with you some great exercises that helped me build my technique and still continue to challenge me today. Not claiming these are the best, but these are the main ones that helped me on my way and can definitely be applied to solos of your making. There are many more if you would like to hear them!
i was doing a couple of runs that were almost just like these ,Thankx a bunch Cameron,the subtle diffrences are very much needed in my case.thank you for these !
Gets a little frustrating wanting to get faster but Im pushing myself to take my time, get it right and do it clean and then go from there. Thanks for this!
Studied classical guitar for 3 years in HS back in the 80s did the segovia scales every day all fingerings, it helped increase my dexterity and ability to navigate the entire fretboard, also taught me his own exercises aside from the regular scales...I'm a firm believer in those, combined with what you teach on your channel with some serious practice daily one would progress incredibly in 6 months time. Would have been a godsend to have an instructor like you in my town back in 1982
Makes perfect sense. Really enjoyed this . You are soooo good. Great inspiration Cameron. I'm getting it ... Your finger speed with smoothness is your key for teaching us the rhythm as you speed up the licks .. my fingers look like yours so I get an extra bonus at watching which I love.. and great narration .
Cameron, love your video's dude! I am now subscribed to your channel and, i hit the "Bell: for all upcoming video's. I am smashing the "Like" button as well - Cheers from the USA! First caught you demo-ing the Revstar RSP20CR-you killed it! I am a Les Paul fan for sure, and even though I had a Revstar RS620 before hand, I do like them. It sits in good company with my LP's. I am looking forward to supporting your video's and content! The Charvel's and all your guitars and you playing are awesome! You are an awesome player! Thank you for you contribution(s) to the guitar community.
This style of playing isn’t even in my wheelhouse but I’m gonna make an attempt to learn all of the riffs in the video! Great instruction, clearly explained with the perfect camera angle on the fretboard. Thanks 👍🏻🎸
I like when guitar players who aren’t the biggest fan of fast playing styles take time to learn technical skills! It’s good when guitarists realise the value of good technical skills despite what their preferred genre is.
great lesson cam! i agree with you i stopped searching for exercises because they were just chromatic and not musical i was looking exactly for something like this!
Hey Cam, Great job, I’m 59 years old and I have been playing the guitar since I was 11 and I have to say it still amazes me to see young man like you rip on the fretboard, I don’t remember it Saving to be that easy to play it myself at that age lol
Yes Cameron Cooper do more video exercises like this because Alexi Laiho has a lot of patterns, skipped string arpeggios and Uli Roth arpeggios and scale sequencing patterns.
Great stuff Cam! These are the gems I need but surprisingly so hard to find on UA-cam and you always seem to offer them in the most concise and easy to replicate manner. Cheers bro!
I'm starting to have some speed in legato and picking exercises and got bored on my old exercises. This will be pretty much my next training session (or at least few of them at a time). Good usable stuff just waiting to be stored in the muscle memory =) Liked and saved to watch later!
I’m in older rocker I used similar exercises to get faster and clean. I tried back in the 80s. Super sure I just age myself. Just getting back into it. Love your videos they’re inspiring. Thanks so much sir
this is in my Excercises each morning. id like more videos like this. i love little repetetive licks with alternate picking and legato intertwined a little bit. i hope to see another video with nice looping licks that when played fast sound like magic. your work is appreciated Huge. i hope to seee an exercise going up the scale and turning around and going back down the scale so theres no stops but a constant up and down scale style . im trying to get better with my alternate picking and legato and im trying to find great non-boring excericses like this. Keep rocking brother. i love your style and is impressive seeing your accuracy. when i solo its hard for me to break out of barring 2 strings at the same time if the riff requires your index finger on the same fret of both strings. when i go up the pentatonic pattern i find il have my index finger on a few strings instead of doing it string by string and it ends up leaving too much sustain with this bad habit i created.
This is awesome! I'm battling my way back, working my ass off to overcome all these challenges...as times my fingers feel like chunky fat sausages that aren't fully connected to my body...so learning new exercises and expanding this...is awesome 😎 need to get my dexterity back ... get my coordination back so that I can play guitar standing up and walking...ugh. Anyway, appreciate videos like this! Thank you
Kick Asssss Brother !!! Ty for all the great exercises you would have to be a fool if you can't hear these are exactly what you need if you want a fast technique builder. especially if your looking for control at high speed..Ty
Cameron, once again thanks for this great and very helpful tutorial. To answer your question: yes I would want more of this! I have a question: Anything special picking wise in Ex. 4 (Zakk Wylde)? I'm not sure how I would address it...
This is very useful. Thank you Cameron! I thought you sold the yellow Charvel. I saw it a couple of years ago in one of your other videos and had to buy one myself. I was fortunate to find a used one and I absolutely love it. I wish Charvel would produce these colors again.
Another video done and dusted. 15 licks. Took a while but in the bag like many more of yours bud. You're right about John Petrucci chromatic runs. I bought his VHS video 20 years ago for around $100 mind you and spent years going over and over his runs trying to get them clearly at 170- 200bpm 🤷 The pentatonic licks you teach however are so useful and work so well with online backing tracks. (Obviously to those who know their basic theory) The minor pentatonic backings are the ones I normally play to and yeah.... Half the time now I can play though a whole backing track mixing in a heap of the licks you teach mixed in with my on the spot licks and it flows great, with barely a bum note now!! (Helps knowing the modes) Can't tell you how grateful I am for all your videos!! (Been learning from you for nearly 2 years now while out of work from an injury so yeah..... your videos have been really handy Thank again mate 👌
Hello there ! Got a quick question about the picking pattern of the lick at 5:30 ish. You’re doing an downstroke on the g, followed by a downstroke descending on the d, but then an upstroke back on the g, and then an upstroke ascending to the high e string. Is there a reason why you aren’t strictly alternate picking this? Thank you !
@@CameronCooper True! I think I just get confused on what key I’m in and where the root note is for the sake of composing solos. But I’ll keep at it! Thank you!:)
imma practice those well. in the future i really want to form a cover band. i want to cover legendary songs from van halen, ozzy, dokken etc. basically a 80s hard rock band.
My biggest problem when it comes to electric guitars is the flailing, probably stemming from the fact I learned all my hammer-ons and pull-offs on acoustic guitars, and it takes so much more "umpf" to make them sound. I'm finding it very hard to lose the bad habit since I'm still mostly playing acoustic guitars. I'd love to learn this stuff but I'm not sure I can. Great content. Thanks.
You can sort it. It's a matter of playing electric more and adapting to it. You know what the problem is, just have to sit down and solve it. You can do it. Don't be defeatist
I wish I found this video a year ago ..OMG forget the blind less licks and exercises .I wasted.so much time..pick a few of these that you like the best. Master them ..than pick a few.more.you will play so much better. I know I do !Thank you so damn much for this video. You helped my playing big-time !
Love your dexterity people see it as talent a guitarist sees a person who has devoted many hours to learning so everything you are came from a lot of hard work and to that you are now talented.don’t know if you can get better than you are I guess now time to write huh anyway thumbs up on channel.
dude can u make a lesson on string crossing while playing legato? i can play legato decently on one string but i cant cross strings. thanks for the lesson also. cheers from Turkey Istanbul :)
Thumbs up if you're trying these!
I wanted to share with you some great exercises that helped me build my technique and still continue to challenge me today. Not claiming these are the best, but these are the main ones that helped me on my way and can definitely be applied to solos of your making. There are many more if you would like to hear them!
i was doing a couple of runs that were almost just like these ,Thankx a bunch Cameron,the subtle diffrences are very much needed in my case.thank you for these !
Yes, please show more exercises, thank you Brother
great video lesson ! this is absolutely the best way to improve the technique in a fun a musically way.
oh we'd like to hear them man!
Thank u so much. I'm enjoying the practice again! Very fun and effective exercises.
1:28 - Ex. 1
2:06 - Ex. 2
3:32 - Ex. 3
4:11 - Ex. 4
5:03 - Ex. 5
6:21 - Ex. 6
6:52 - Ex. 7
7:51 - Ex. 8
9:01 - Ex. 9
9:36 - Ex. 10
10:35 - Ex.11
11:35 - Ex.12
13:00 - Ex.13
Good job. Thanks 🙏🏼
Thank you very much!!👍👍
Gets a little frustrating wanting to get faster but Im pushing myself to take my time, get it right and do it clean and then go from there.
Thanks for this!
I am going to continuously come back to this lol.
Practice is no laughing matter son
Justo do it dude
Already back. I'm with ya.
Just back again
Cooper,..thanks man,..you’re unlocking multi- doors for my playing , that I overlooked , and you are the finest teacher I’ve seen ,…
Lessons like these are just gold!
Thanks so much Cameron!!!
This is just super awesome! Thanks heaps Cam for sharing. BTW absolutely loving your Skype lessons and can’t wait for the next one.
Love these - always great material Cameron.
Awesome. I've been searching for something like this for awhile, thanks for posting!
Amazing content as usual Cam!!
I predict this will be a video that I re-visit often!!! Thanks for these cool exercise techniques that could be used in real solos, Cam!
These are awesome, thanks for sharing them with us!
cam is makes me so happy to see you uploading so much lately! you definitely have been one of my biggest influences
Great stuff Cam. Always a pleasure to watch your vids.
This is very helpful! Thanks Cam!
Excellent! One of my fav’s
Studied classical guitar for 3 years in HS back in the 80s did the segovia scales every day all fingerings, it helped increase my dexterity and ability to navigate the entire fretboard, also taught me his own exercises aside from the regular scales...I'm a firm believer in those, combined with what you teach on your channel with some serious practice daily one would progress incredibly in 6 months time.
Would have been a godsend to have an instructor like you in my town back in 1982
Great exercises/licks!
More of these, please.
Amazing stuff! More of these please
Fantastic lesson Cam. Thanks.
Definitely love seeing this type of content!
Tks Cameron! Always bringing us useful ideas and inspiration🙏🏻🔥
Yessss Cameron!!! Great educational video! Will be coming back to this one again and again!
thanks mate,i will be lookin forward to this
I appreciate you cam thank you!
I really enjoyed this lesson. Thankyou.
Makes perfect sense. Really enjoyed this . You are soooo good. Great inspiration Cameron. I'm getting it ... Your finger speed with smoothness is your key for teaching us the rhythm as you speed up the licks .. my fingers look like yours so I get an extra bonus at watching which I love.. and great narration .
Love it! Will definately improve my solos to go through these and disect them down step by step and then increase the speed.
Thanks for taking the time to make this. Your videos are very easy to understand even without tablature. Thanks friend
awesome content! thanks! it helps a lot!
Hey cam. I hope your well. Thanks for another great fun and practical lesson I love Ozzy's players too. They inspire me. Stay well bud!!!
Cameron, love your video's dude! I am now subscribed to your channel and, i hit the "Bell: for all upcoming video's. I am smashing the "Like" button as well - Cheers from the USA!
First caught you demo-ing the Revstar RSP20CR-you killed it! I am a Les Paul fan for sure, and even though I had a Revstar RS620 before hand, I do like them. It sits in good company with my LP's. I am looking forward to supporting your video's and content! The Charvel's and all your guitars and you playing are awesome! You are an awesome player! Thank you for you contribution(s) to the guitar community.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge
Priceless
Brilliant, only just come across your channel today and I’m hooked already....well done mate 👍🏼
This is great. Thanx
Love this lesson. Nice job Cameron keep them coming. Just like the old VHS tapes in the eighties only to the point and no BS!
Excelente!!! Thanks Bro
Whoa video quality is great, always learn a bunch from ya bro
Awesome value Cameron...
Righteous exercises, thanks!
How could anyone question you you are brilliant simples please carry on what your doing so helpful! thanks so much!
Wow that was awesome Cameron.
Thank you for your time Cameron … Awsome stuff …
This style of playing isn’t even in my wheelhouse but I’m gonna make an attempt to learn all of the riffs in the video! Great instruction, clearly explained with the perfect camera angle on the fretboard. Thanks 👍🏻🎸
I like when guitar players who aren’t the biggest fan of fast playing styles take time to learn technical skills! It’s good when guitarists realise the value of good technical skills despite what their preferred genre is.
Thanks a lot
Thx so much Bro! Your video's have helped my playing a lot.
Great stuff, thanks 🎸🎸😎👍
Your channel is a gold mine bro, thanks.
great lesson cam! i agree with you i stopped searching for exercises because they were just chromatic and not musical i was looking exactly for something like this!
Great tutorial: short, simple, and with wide range of styles.
Love it!
Hey Cam, Great job, I’m 59 years old and I have been playing the guitar since I was 11 and I have to say it still amazes me to see young man like you rip on the fretboard, I don’t remember it Saving to be that easy to play it myself at that age lol
This is great Cameron.
👍...👍 on second thought, I'll give it two thumbs up. Wish my guitar teacher from the 80s was like you. Nice job Cameron
great exercise！！
Cool video thanks 👍👍
Yes Cameron Cooper do more video exercises like this because Alexi Laiho has a lot of patterns, skipped string arpeggios and Uli Roth arpeggios and scale sequencing patterns.
Great stuff Cam! These are the gems I need but surprisingly so hard to find on UA-cam and you always seem to offer them in the most concise and easy to replicate manner. Cheers bro!
You're welcome Stew. 😊
I'm starting to have some speed in legato and picking exercises and got bored on my old exercises. This will be pretty much my next training session (or at least few of them at a time). Good usable stuff just waiting to be stored in the muscle memory =) Liked and saved to watch later!
This is really cool, saving the video.
These are excellent ! @ 6:55 very Vinnie Moore esc .. fab!
I’m in older rocker I used similar exercises to get faster and clean. I tried back in the 80s. Super sure I just age myself. Just getting back into it. Love your videos they’re inspiring. Thanks so much sir
Best intro ever dude!
Wow awesome I have lots to practice thanks for teaching
Great lesson, will definitely learn this, nice riffs, nice haircut.👍 Thanks! :)
Fantastic
this is in my Excercises each morning. id like more videos like this. i love little repetetive licks with alternate picking and legato intertwined a little bit. i hope to see another video with nice looping licks that when played fast sound like magic. your work is appreciated Huge. i hope to seee an exercise going up the scale and turning around and going back down the scale so theres no stops but a constant up and down scale style . im trying to get better with my alternate picking and legato and im trying to find great non-boring excericses like this. Keep rocking brother. i love your style and is impressive seeing your accuracy. when i solo its hard for me to break out of barring 2 strings at the same time if the riff requires your index finger on the same fret of both strings. when i go up the pentatonic pattern i find il have my index finger on a few strings instead of doing it string by string and it ends up leaving too much sustain with this bad habit i created.
why i just found your channel.. so good vidz.. thanks a lot boss!!!! :)
Dude, your good ! 🇬🇧
This is awesome! I'm battling my way back, working my ass off to overcome all these challenges...as times my fingers feel like chunky fat sausages that aren't fully connected to my body...so learning new exercises and expanding this...is awesome 😎 need to get my dexterity back ... get my coordination back so that I can play guitar standing up and walking...ugh. Anyway, appreciate videos like this! Thank you
Sweet yellow color, love these 80s bright colors
I like to use the Adrian smith lick from the trooper and move it up and down the fretboard, it’s very good for ear training.
I will keep this SAVED and try my hardest to copy 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼
Kick Asssss Brother !!! Ty for all the great exercises you would have to be a fool if you can't hear these are exactly what you need if you want a fast technique builder. especially if your looking for control at high speed..Ty
Cameron, once again thanks for this great and very helpful tutorial. To answer your question: yes I would want more of this! I have a question: Anything special picking wise in Ex. 4 (Zakk Wylde)? I'm not sure how I would address it...
tthis will be a banger
Gold...
Very cool and useful I never learned arpeggios but one day I hope to learn!!! 😏🤘
I love finding your previous videos that i haven't seen yet. Lol
Some pretty cool licks I’m trying to learn:
3:27
7:25
Cameron you are literally one of the smoothest most technically advanced guitarist working today , just absolutely amazing skill and perfection
Unbelievably kind words there. Thank you
Dam now this lesson kicked up my guitar practice 👍👍and its pretty dam fun ...like Dio said we Rock
This is very useful. Thank you Cameron! I thought you sold the yellow Charvel. I saw it a couple of years ago in one of your other videos and had to buy one myself. I was fortunate to find a used one and I absolutely love it. I wish Charvel would produce these colors again.
Thank you! Nope, never sold the yellow one. Still got the two neon colours.
Another video done and dusted. 15 licks. Took a while but in the bag like many more of yours bud.
You're right about John Petrucci chromatic runs.
I bought his VHS video 20 years ago for around $100 mind you and
spent years going over and over his runs trying to get them clearly at 170- 200bpm 🤷
The pentatonic licks you teach however are so useful and work so well with online backing tracks. (Obviously to those who know their basic theory)
The minor pentatonic backings are the ones I normally play to and yeah.... Half the time now I can play though a whole backing track mixing in a heap of the licks you teach mixed in with my on the spot licks and it flows great, with barely a bum note now!! (Helps knowing the modes)
Can't tell you how grateful I am for all your videos!! (Been learning from you for nearly 2 years now while out of work from an injury so yeah..... your videos have been really handy
Thank again mate 👌
Thanks a lot for the kind words
Now I have found the most free and valuable guitar lesson in lead guitar playing...
This is an important video
Hello there !
Got a quick question about the picking pattern of the lick at 5:30 ish.
You’re doing an downstroke on the g, followed by a downstroke descending on the d, but then an upstroke back on the g, and then an upstroke ascending to the high e string.
Is there a reason why you aren’t strictly alternate picking this?
Thank you !
I'm just doing what's comfortable to me. If you feel you want to alternate pick this, do it by all means.
Love these videos and exercises! Any chance of teaching runs and improv in drop tuning?
It's pretty much the same, just ignore the string that's dropped aha
@@CameronCooper True! I think I just get confused on what key I’m in and where the root note is for the sake of composing solos. But I’ll keep at it! Thank you!:)
imma practice those well. in the future i really want to form a cover band. i want to cover legendary songs from van halen, ozzy, dokken etc. basically a 80s hard rock band.
4:16 Adrian Smith uses a very similar lick in the solo of 'Wasted Years', good for practicing bends and alternates.
On Guns and Roses “Sweet Child O’ Mine” guitar solo too!. :>
in free bird solo as well
Slash’s God father version did the same.
Cam this stuff is gold! Stop giving away the store.LOL
My biggest problem when it comes to electric guitars is the flailing, probably stemming from the fact I learned all my hammer-ons and pull-offs on acoustic guitars, and it takes so much more "umpf" to make them sound. I'm finding it very hard to lose the bad habit since I'm still mostly playing acoustic guitars. I'd love to learn this stuff but I'm not sure I can. Great content. Thanks.
You can sort it. It's a matter of playing electric more and adapting to it. You know what the problem is, just have to sit down and solve it. You can do it. Don't be defeatist
Great stuff! Do you start with upstrokes always, and do I hear string buzz/is your action super low?
No string buzz on this beast because the action is high on this. It depends on what I'm doing but upstrokes a lot of the time
@@CameronCooper Thanks!
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yingwie malmsteen unlock. ahhahha.... thank you for this video lesson....... you are the best...... gonna practice this.....
I wish I found this video a year ago ..OMG forget the blind less licks and exercises .I wasted.so much time..pick a few of these that you like the best. Master them ..than pick a few.more.you will play so much better. I know I do !Thank you so damn much for this video. You helped my playing big-time !
Love your dexterity people see it as talent a guitarist sees a person who has devoted many hours to learning so everything you are came from a lot of hard work and to that you are now talented.don’t know if you can get better than you are I guess now time to write huh anyway thumbs up on channel.
Cheers! Don't worry Jerry, I have written, released and writing more
thats a cool mug, i need one lol
Hair looking great Cam 😂🤘👍
Cheers!
dude can u make a lesson on string crossing while playing legato? i can play legato decently on one string but i cant cross strings. thanks for the lesson also. cheers from Turkey Istanbul :)
Make sure you're palm muting the lower strings you aren't playing and try hammering on from nowhere onto the string you're going to play next.
@@CameronCooper i appreciate it man. gonna try to apply your tips. thanks again for taking your time and replying. it really means a lot