Warm-up 1: Chromaticism 1

This first exercise is a pretty simple exercise with 4 notes per string. Each finger has its own fret; your index finger on the 1st fret, your middle finger on the 2nd, your ring finger on the 3rd fret and your pinky on the 4th fret.


Simply go up the frets and strings in order, and when you reach the top, move your entire hand up one fret, and play the exercise coming down the strings.


Make sure you practice with a metronome, playing with both 8th/16th notes and 8th/16th note triplets. It is also important to get as much as possible out of the exercise by changing it up a bit - for example by playing it backwards.


String skipping is a good way to practice more difficult jumps with the pick. Start on the low E, jump to the D, come back down one to the A string, jump up to the G string and so on.

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