Various playing and non-playing exercises for warming up before practice session.

Alternate picking etude.

In this lesson we'll see how to develop a melody gradually.

A fun shuffle blues jam, bends, vibrato and phrasing. Explores playing over Dorian and Blues scales, chromatics and passing notes.

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.

Essential John Petrucci licks & patterns

Adding some funky elements to heavy rock tracks can be very effective. This lesson should give you a few ideas to put some groove in your riffs.

In this lesson we learn that we can move all the boxes for a scale up and down to get a different scale.

Warming up exercises that will help you with short legato melodies, and prepare you for songs that has the same vocal challenges like in this lesson.