Best Warm Up Guitar Exercise (EVERY finger combination!)

[@soundguitar]

→ FREE PDF: Top 3 Pentatonic Scale Patterns for more melodic soloing → bit.ly/3lIQujx

[@davetwo7]

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.

[@soundguitar]

Woohoo! That's what I like to hear! :) Thanks for sharing, David. So glad it's working well for you! ~~ cheers, Jared

[@ericsplittgerber5154]

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.

[@soundguitar]

I appreciate that!

[@peterdonnelly4045]

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

[@pukvolos]

you are amazing teacher

[@soundguitar]

Thank you!! That’s nice of you :)

[@anthonywendt5834]

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.

[@bobbymalta73]

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

[@rainervogel9462]

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 🙂

[@jackiedixon5076]

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

[@soundguitar]

Thanks, Jackie. It means a lot!

[@johricpea]

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

[@SanMyintTun-rj2vz]

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

[@seanwholey6190]

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. 🙄

[@soundguitar]

I hope it's getting better, Sean. And if you work this in I hope it helps you like it did for me!

[@davidmarsh9897]

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

[@soundguitar]

My pleasure, David. Glad you found it useful to learn about. Cheers

[@thomasknight2863]

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

[@charlescamiel7082]

Thank you, thank you Jared! I'm with you; if I don't do this before I play; I'm off...

[@soundguitar]

I'm glad it helps :)

[@lisavento7474]

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.

[@waynecaswell5727]

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.

[@forbesstewart2300]

Just found you're channel Good on you Jared

[@soundguitar]

Thanks, Forbes!! Glad to have you here :)

[@trevorcains]

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

[@soundguitar]

Good question, just pluck alternating the index and middle fingers - I do it that way all the time too

[@trevorcains]

Do you use thumb also

[@soundguitar]

@@trevorcains Yep, you can also alternate thumb and first finger or thumb and middle finger to pluck with the right hand. I do all of them.

[@charlescamiel7082]

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

[@soundguitar]

sure thing, here's the link: www.soundguitarlessons.com/warmup

[@ElAndre21]

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

[@soundguitar]

Good question! How long I do it is about the length of the demonstration section, x2 because I often go over it again with slurs, but that's it, just takes a few minutes after getting it down, BUT getting it down and learning it in the first place of course takes some time and work.

[@j.zachs.3033]

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

[@soundguitar]

Good question. For keyboard/piano I’d go for the Hanon exercise series. Even just the first exercise in that series is great.

[@stringbender57]

Very good warm up exercises. I have done something quite similar for 30 years. I'll give your patterns a try. I noticed when you play the notes from the 1st to the 6th string you pick down up and even when changing to the next string up instead of sweep picking following the direction of the stroke, you pick down on the new string. That was the way I did it for 40 years until somebody suggested sweeping up to the next string for speed. Now I am stuck and somewhat sloppy either way between the two...lol! What are your thoughts on this?

[@soundguitar]

Good Question! Yes, I stick with strict alternate picking as my default and I think that's a good habit to have, if/when I want to work out playing something with particular speed I'll definitely use the economy picking style you're talking about case by case.

[@stringbender57]

@@soundguitar - Thanks for the reply!

[@hanyzaky3284]

Great lesson as usual. What is beautiful tele model ?

[@soundguitar]

Thanks, Hany! It's a 2011 American standard. It's just a nice, straightforward, and simple guitar and I love it. :)

[@lisavento7474]

OMG< been doing this but my short 2" pinkie is not making it up to those lower strings without wrenching my elbow so far forward! you guys with long pinkies...dang

[@gustavochiozza6465]

Hi Jared, what is that kind of cloth you put by the nut of your guitar?

[@soundguitar]

Hi Gustavo, Glad you asked! I just made a video about it recently: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoSoZ4aPbsyKa7M

[@702352]

Hi Jared, Is there a way to get the PDF of these exercises?

[@soundguitar]

Hi Moniz. Send me an email and I'll hook you up :) [e-mail]

[@moosemuseum1853]

Hanon for guitar and less monotonous!

[@Lonebadger567]

Do you have tablature available for this warm-up session?

[@soundguitar]

Yup! It's included in the PDF. www.soundguitarlessons.com/warmup

[@charlescamiel7082]

I must be missing something. The link you provided is for the pentatonic scale patterns, do you have the link for the warm up exercise? I had it previously and misplaced it. Thanks.

[@soundguitar]

Here! www.soundguitarlessons.com/warmup

[@jamesearlsumagang4440]

It took me about 2 hours, on my own BPM and must be no mistakes or repeat the combos 😣, omg how will I catch up on the right hand pattern thing and especially with good sounds.

[@alxesh4088]

Hey I came across the video in my email I guess I’m on some list or something in it you mentioned your devastating injuries. I’m like 5 months into RSI recovery, I feel like I’m almost back but i know my hand isn’t perfect (fretting). Any tips? I know I’ll probably play again but this has really sucked, it’s basically tendinitis from overuse and bad form, pretty much all the “pain” is gone but I can just tell it’s not all the way better so I don’t wanna start playing again, I’m pretty close to the recovery timeline, how do you know when you’ve healed?

[@andreshammer8897]

You'll play again. Soon I bet. Take it slow, and be religious about your form and rsi prevention, should be at the forefront of your mind equal to whatever you're working on musically.. don't get back into old habits.. sounds like you already know how far recovered you are.. trust your instincts, just be patient and wait until you're ready.. 🍻

[@soundguitar]

Hi Alx. I'm sorry to hear about your RSI. Having gone through it twice, I know how it feels! And it takes long time to recover. I'm glad to hear that you're almost back. For me, I never stopped playing completely, because I still had music obligations I had to fulfill for my job. But I did the bare minimum for quite a while. I think this made my healing slower, but by the time I got to the stage you're at, I think it actually helped my recovery - I think my very careful, very slow, very light playing, while religiously doing this exact warm up with as little pressure as I possibly could - I think that served as physical therapy in a way and conditioned my arm to have the tolerance to play again. I now can play all day as much as I want if I feel like it and at the time I thought that would never be possible again, so keep your head high because full recovery is possible. Watch this video, kzbin.info/www/bejne/haDFl6tpjryAnc0. It's a guest post from a friend of mine who's a PT. She drops some great advice, one of them being to start playing small amounts, whatever amount you safely can, as soon as you can so your body isn't shocked when you start playing a bunch again suddenly. I think that was the key for me. In the end it was a blessing in disguise because now my technique is extremely light. I learned how to only use the pressure I actually need while playing and it's a huge advantage now. Hope that helps! Let me know how it goes. - ** Jared

[@davidpatrick1813]

finally saw the other note and going to work on this ... not holding all fingers down is interesting ..

[@jamesearlsumagang4440]

I'm dloading and try .05 x speed

[@Freidlon7]

I feel really thick! I cannot figure how this is logical at all… the first few are exactly the reverse of the first order eg 1 2 3 4 followed by 4 3 2 1 but when it gets to the 6 th fret he says it’s the reverse coming down but it changes order eg 1 4 2 3 followed by 4 1 3 2 rather than 3 2 4 1! I can’t remember the exercise because I can’t get to grips with how this is a logical order. Feel really stupid 😂

[@soundguitar]

Sorry for the confusion! Think of it as a mirror image flip instead of "Reverse". If you did the same order, but going the other direction you get the descending finger orders. And you can create your own way of organizing the finger permutations, as long as we play all of them in whatever order then it's equally beneficial.

[@Freidlon7]

@@soundguitar thanks for the reply. I just can’t get the order into my head once I reach the 6th fret. Feeling a bit dumb! Great exercise.. I’ve doing a simplified version of this for a while now but this is where I need to take it next so appreciate it. Love the channel, great ideas, concepts and insights about practice and technique and playing in general. Will stick with it till the penny drops…. Eventually