Best Warm Up Guitar Exercise (EVERY finger combination!)

This has proven to be the best warm up guitar exercise for my practice needs because it uses every finger combination.

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💬 LESSON DESCRIPTION:
I have a very practical lesson for you today.
I just want to share with you the exact warm up guitar exercise that I do almost every single time that I practice.
Sounds a bit boring, but this warm up is really important to me.
I injured my arm from playing too much guitar twice in my career.
Both times were devastating.
There were moments when I wasn't sure if I'd be able to play again.
In the end, the answer to healing and being able to play sustainably again was warming up.
I found that this exact warm up guitar exercise helped the most in getting me loose, preventing further injury, and allowing me to play with way more accuracy.
I still do it religiously and it continues to be beneficial.
Here's what's covered in this lesson:
• I describe the warm up guitar exercise and demonstrate it fully with tabs and notation on screen
• I talk about what to focus on while practicing
• I show how to turn it into a more advanced exercise
• And lastly, I share the common technique mistake that you should avoid doing at all costs when playing something like this
I don't even mention my injuries in the video—I just wanted to share that with you here. I'll save discussing that more for a future lesson.

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⏱ VIDEO CONTENT OUTLINE (WITH TIMESTAMP LINKS):
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Video outline
2:04 - Exercise description
5:53 - Full demonstration with notation/tabs (PLAY ALONG)
8:21 - What to focus on while practicing
11:05 - How to make it more challenging
12:16 - The one big thing to NOT do
13:17 - Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns (FREE PDF)
13:47 - Comments / outro

#warmup #guitarexercise #technique

[ericsplittgerber]

dude your teaching style is top-notch, I love the emphasis on staying relaxed. Recovering from tendonitis and watching your content (including the video about that subject) has helped so much.

[davetwo]

I've been doing this warm up for the past couple of days now and I can definitively say that this is the best warm up I've ever done.

[peterdonnelly]

Feb 2024. Thanks Jared. Just what I was looking for. Thank you so much for your generosity, precision, thoughtfulness and the level of detail and mindfulness you pour into every lesson.
Sincere thanks,
Peter

[anthonywendt]

Nice, this is a great method you use. I've been using variations of this technique for years while warming up. Builds good dexterity and accuracy too.

[bobbymalta]

You'r A Great Teacher My Friend You Really Want to Learn Others!
🙌

[rainervogel]

Great warm up exercise - thank you. The most challenging part (for me) of the exercise is to memorize the order of the permutations: it was not straightforward to see the rule behind it immediately (you call it "logic" - but there are various possibilities how to order the 24 permutations "logically") - finally I got it 🙂

[jackiedixon]

Thank you, the best guitar lesson channel on YouTube, in my opinion. You show you really like enjoy teaching guitar. The exercises really do help for control of the fretboard.

[johricpea]

Thanks Jared. Good idea to focus on practice techniques and strategies.

[davidmarsh]

That's a very handy warm up routine, thanks for sharing.

[SanMyintTun-rjvz]

Thanks...You have a beautiful mind...❤

[trevorcains]

Thankyou, How would I use fingers instead of the pick please

[seanwholey]

Thanks for posting this! I will definitely try to work this into my practice sessions as you know I have had wrist issues due to bad posture and neck strangling. 🙄

[waynecaswell]

Jared, great lesson. Can you discuss the type of arm injury you had from playing the guitar too much. I am suffering from Ulnar Nerve Entrapment which is causing numbness in left forearm. Seeking information on cause and treatment. Also, how to avoid it in the future. If you or any of your subscribers have any information, I would appreciate it. It will help me and many others. Thanks.

[charlescamiel]

Can you please provide a link to this warm up PDF? Thanks!

[thomasknight]

I've used this exercise pattern with my beginner students, however, thirds are great exercises to use with finger dexterity.

[hanyzaky]

Great lesson as usual.
What is beautiful tele model ?

[j.zachs.]

Thank you, Jared - do you recommend an equivalent for keyboard or piano or do you happen to know a teacher like you for keyboard | piano? - Zach

[ElAndre]

Hi, thanks for all the tips and lessons, I'm going to start using this, for how long do you usually do this exercise? I want to start practicing more but I would like to build a routine so I stay focused on what I'm doing

[forbesstewart]

Just found you're channel
Good on you Jared

[lisavento]

some guy mentioned this same warmup, in highschool it kept him thinking all the time coming up with new patterns in that 4 finger structure and he posted all of them which were about 16...so i'm definitely getting better but still struggling getting the short pinky there.