Welcome to my first lesson here on GMC. Todays topic is warming up, I will show you what I usually do to warm myself up before a show or recording and give you some ideas about possible variations that might make things a bit more interesting to play. You will come across lots of chromatic runs, scale fragments and a lot of alternate picking.

A nice and tight funk with some fresh chords.

Should help the metal apprentice out there to play riffs using simple tools such as power chords and scale segments.

Up-tempo swing jazz, with lots of jazz phrasing and rhythm displacements.

By request sweepmaster Pavel breaks down his technique into tiny fragments - for you to easily digest! In this part you'll see the main excercise for your right hand in order to master sweep picking. The trick for the right hand is to move the pick across all of the strings in one direction.

The Gus G. Soloing style is in my opinion a mixture of Zakk Wylde meets John Petrucci, with a lot of original stuff. He uses a lot fast pentatonics, with blues riffs, scale fragments and sequences with sliding intervals. Both rhythm and soloing.