Ep. 8: I Tried Alex Skolnick's Guitar Warm-up: This Is What I Learned

[@usagi2988]

Love this series of videos, and Alex Skolnick was/still-is a massive "guitar hero" of mine... I could never in a month of Sundays be as accomplished as him, but he still affects a massive influence on how I perceive and engage the guitar. Joe, if you read this, I hope you continue to do these kinds of vids! Maybe, maybe, maybe Jake E. Lee one day?

[@stevenwhitmore41]

Awesome, love Alex and his style n you break it down to understand. Thanks you brother

[@TauRiOneill]

He really is pretty brilliant. I’ve seen Testament live a couple times and Alex is always inventive and on FIRE.

[@francis5518]

This is the video analog of a superfood. Richly packed with usefulness!!! Thank you so much!!

[@AnneLeighton]

Usually when Reverb posts something, I watch the video sooner or later. This one--I watched within 3 days of your posting. I love Alex--he's all about the music.

[@leoxbass]

This series is over? I mean, I didn't found other videos after this one and there's no playlist with a compilation of then all. This series was awesome to make a personal study protocol and to prepare lessons.

[@fotoajojo]

Every time you do one of these warmup breakdowns it kickstarts my creativity. I have never been one for the deedely-deedley-deedely-deedily guitar hero stuff, but this has so much musicality that transfers elsewhere at different tempos. Was just jamming an Am blues with a friend and i dropped Fdim W-H runs over the V7-chord E7 (or I guess you could think of it as Edim H-W scale). Either way, Instant Beirut Blues. He be like WTF WAS THAT? 😵‍💫Thanks. Hit up Marc Ribot next for some super-skronky super-wide interval stuff.

[@debralynnpaxton5238]

Will incorporate these into my vocal warm-ups ! ❤ 'Steely Dan's' "Josie" was the first thing that came to mind.... Wrote a song based on this very scale 24 years ago. :D Love it ❤... Thank you for this great video !...You both are fantastic players !,

[@BCTGuitarPlayer]

Thanks for this! It cracks me up that everyone has LOTS of guitars now. Including myself. I began playing guitar in 1972 and everyone I knew back them had no more than two guitars because the attitude was: why do you anything more than your two favorite guitars? Well we all know that attitude changed. 😆

[@dorianford6227]

Rocking that Black Bobbin JM I see you lol

[@Bricklinsv1970]

Skolnick knows his Sh*t!

[@ahvazdamaneh4411]

AMAZING 🤩🤩

[@BoyAditya]

Alex is monster! He can play everything! I love his blues song 😁 Florida man blues 🤣 hilarious

[@mikhailoldskool8955]

Listen to his Thonk album the album with Ufo above got 1 cool tune starts with bass intro

[@ShpookyMetal]

Yo people listen to Alex skolnic stuffs on Thonk album with bassist Michael Manring ,power