Why Practice Boring Exercises When You Could Practice This...

Why spend your time practicing "boring" exercises to build your technique when you can practice something musical! This is the type of workout I'll use to warm up my fretting and picking hand or get them back in shape after a few days away from the guitar (Yes, that happens!).

I find playing something like this much more inspiring and motivating than the same boring exercises. Plus, the more often you use the same warm up exercises, the less they're effectively warming up your hands.

If you're interested in the thinking behind the composition of this exercise, check out my Patreon page where I give a full description of what I'm doing and what I like to use when writing something like this!

Guitar: @Donnermusic_Official DST-400
Pickup: @LarryDiMarzio Injector (Neck Pickup)

#techniquebuilder #warmupexercise #guitarlesson

[jamierobinson]

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[Solo-]

I'll add this to my "Time to Show Off at a Party" list

[aaronvasquez]

I’m no expert…but I’m fairly confident you don’t get to this point without practicing the boring stuff…

[wavewithus]

More like this please! Great content, 'sophisticated' sounding lick too, I enjoyed learning it

[Glane]

Really appreciate that you put the tabs in the videos. So many people now that claim to bw able to help you get better or have fun exercises like this but the put it behind a pay wall. Im not trying to knock the hustle but like i said its just appreciated that this is here to let people learn and improve from.

[Telor]

Just started practicing this... I'm still quite slow compared to the video but its very satisfying to play. All the notes fall where you expect them to and it feels easy to glide up and down the fretboard.

[Avexer]

Basically a short etude.
But there ain't much etudes for an electric guitar, so this one is really good to add to anyone's workbook and daily instrument workout.
Thanks for one more cool thing to play!

[steveechoesguitar]

Just started this over the last few days. Never tried this type of playing before but loving the challenge

[cal]

I’ve been practicing for about a month and it took me about an hour to learn the first bit but I’m glad I pushed on through when I wanted to stop. I will definitely be coming back to this and add a bit more on every day

[ekbusdriver]

Very cool!

Had a bit of “crossroads” end-battle vibe to it.

[elxenomorph]

Thank you for the tabs man! Really appreciate it!! This sounds awesome.

[FzAndrade]

This is exactly the type of exercise I need. More please!

[mbessle]

Love the smile at the end, I'll be smiling too when I eventually get this figured out!

[jonnyb]

Part of my routine now. More of these, please!!!

[jeremyward]

Hi Jamie. I'd consider myself a very sloppy intermediate/advanced guitarist, having only slowly improved over the 19 years I've been playiing. I absolutely love your channel - as part of my attempt to improve my technique I have been practicing chromatic exercises and random arpeggios for endless hours. I always wondered why more people didn't put it all into a warm up routine, and your compositions are amazing! I think it would be very helpful to add in the comments for the videos, what techniques are practiced whilst learning the exercise, as they can be quite fast and long when just watching the video. For example, I think this one is mostly just alternate picking? It would be great if you put your videos into small mini-series! Perhaps one for alternate picking practice, with beginner, intermediate, and advanced routines such as this one :) Anyway, I look forward to learning this one within the upcoming days!

[dyrythmusic]

This is the best guitar exercise I have ever found. It sounds beautiful and there are so many ways to use this exercise to practice different techniques. You can strictly alternate pick it or add legato and sweep picking, even some tapping if you want. If you are good enough player and it doesn't really exercise your playing you can use it as a warmup. This is so good that it's worth my first ever YouTube comment. I have been playing metal for over 20 years but I have never done any exercises because they are so uninspiring but this is something else. I have had fun playing this for a few days and I'll make sure I'll memorize this for the rest of my life to use as a warmup.

[ShadowT]

Ugh just got to work and i see this, gonna save this and practice it tonight when i get off!

[Escapism-for-everybody]

GOD.... Mr. Robinson Thank you so much, you dont know how long i am looking for easy, BUT very awesome sounding practice pattern!

[raphaelg.]

How to master your alternate picking and string skipping... Nice exercice !

[MrSleepyj]

Man I don’t comment on very many videos but this series of practice etudes that sound this awesome have been a welcome addition to my boring wood shedding sessions. I really appreciate it buddy and please keep it up!