Here are some great warm up exercises for you to do as part of your regular guitar practice. In this video he looks at some chromatic scale exercises up and down the neck, and then some exercises around the Am / C major scale.
One of the important things to take away from this video is the importance of using a metronome or something similar to help you keep time. This guy is playing at double the speed of the metronome – don’t be discouraged if you can’t play that quick!
I use the chromatic scale exercises to warm up sometimes. I do them slightly different to how this guy does them, but the important thing is to make sure you can do them cleanly – picking every note.
Gets your fingers warmed up and ready for practice. Also good for building up your technique. Visit www.deandimarzo.com for more lessons, music, and videos!
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How long do you play guitar?
Using 120 bpm (2 hits per click) right? I saw you still got quite some "flying fingers" i’m having a hard time correcting those aswell lol. Looking good though, people always underestimate the metronome..
thanks dude this is helping my playing heaps
You look exactly like my first guitar teacher, I mean it¡¡ Awesome excercises BTW
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@PetrovichStefan
Left leg playing is for real he-te-ros ;D ..
hey are you always muting the strings, because when ever i try and do fast taping when my finger pulls of the string it always makes a sound, so i hit the note and then pull of and hear the open string note.
The first string is the high E string not the low…
these are good exercises.
these are good exercises.
yes indeed use these they WILL get you familiar and increase speed.
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is ur action low
"you’ll skip (.l.) the sting" xD
"you’ll skip (.l.) the sting" xD
You see the problem is I dont need all the notes
… now lets see you do that with no hands.
Hey buddy, when you do one scale & then the same scale backwards that’s like what I call an Arpeggio…though this you can clearly hear is some kind of routine exercise (wheather you’re using it to learn scales, or as a warm-up or as a way to test the neck of a used guitar in a pawn shop or whatever…because one thing I will say about this exercise, it sounds like it would be good to use a variety of frets or strings or some variation of the 2…& it would be good for testing an axe like that
Holding the pick backwards, pinky is flying away from the fretboard, picking WAY too hard, using distortion for warm-ups…. Learn to play before giving lessons
you talk like ben stiller kinda
Do you have to have one?
What the hell is a metronome?
@ThrashEagle breaking the law breaking the law!!
yeah its on the same scale aeolian (a minor) 
You play great and your guitar sounds great too. Exactly what Ibanez model are you playing?