"Technical headroom" - great concept and turn of a phrase - applies to many areas of life. Well said Adrian.

This is the year I plan to work on getting my chops back after a 25+ year hiatus from playing guitar. Your videos are going to be a huge help.

Wow. There are enough exercises in this video to keep me busy for years. The stretch is definitely one I'll be trying.

You are the best!!! This "popped out" from nowhere! I think you are great; 🤩🤩🤩

“Technical Headroom “ love it.

Best guitar teacher on the internet. And the dry British humor is a bonus. 😆

The pinky exercise shall be called the “scorpion”. Happy new year!

4:07: "Because I'm a nerd" - I never would have guessed, Adrian! Lol. Substance-over-style suits you very well! Brilliant player, great channel. (Edit: Example 2 was how I learned 'the spider', across strings. A better method for dexterity, imho.)

This is the Pinkie Police! WE’RE WATCHING YOU! 🤟

Thanks Adrian, that was a great exercise lesson. Keep them coming!!

A good stretching exercise is to play Message In a Bottle the way Andy Summers played it originally. He figured out how to do it easier in his later years (reunion tour).

is this the best channel on YT?

Great content man! Been practicing guitar daily for 9 months now and your video's really helped me alot. Keep em coming ;)

I came here from a pedal board video. Hit subscribe. Although not my style the content looks rad. Wishing there was 80s shredd version of your good self. Good authors can tell a story no matter what the style. Funny I only just watched the endless summer the other day. Happy New year.

Bonne année Adrian! I love your channel, because it's not about shredding..😂 Keep it up for 2021!

Thank you

A spider’s not an insect, it’s an arachnid!

Thanks for the continued knowledge and guidance in the new year Adrian. Really appreciate it. Thank you!

Wow! Some people get irritated at the least little things (e.g. spider in not an insect; little use of pinky). They obviously have nothing going on in their lives. Chill out, people! Great exercises, Adrian. Thanks for all your "guitar" wisdom. 🎸

8:06 "Horrible Sounding" proceeds to show one of the best sounding exercises I've heard

Excellent and timely video. Thanks Adrian!

Happy New Year, Adrian. Many thanks for introducing us to some fantastic guitar music - any more XTC on the horizon?

Hey Adrian, it's very nice to start the year with a video of your talent. Thanks for all, buddy!

.....reminded me of the famous quote: "....must have an inordinate fondness for beetles." Happy New Year to you Adrian, let's hope the worst of 2020 is behind us all now and things will be better sooner rather than later. 😊 🎊😎 (Although not looking great in your neck of the woods). Some great ideas here - thank you! Cheers. 🎸🎸🎸

That arpeggio exercise looks great!

Right! Don't make it lumpy! That's what she said... Happy New Year.

Thank you for the great no nonsense tutorials, Great job.

Wonderful lesson. First I've heard of technical headroom. Thanks. HNY

Oh, my cats are alive again! Thank you so much! 👍🤘😂

Another great lesson. Thanks.

Thank you for a great welcome to the new year. Have a wonderful 2021, Adrain. Cheers!

Adrian.....One of your goals for the year should be visiting Nashville.....You won't regret it!

Great way to escape your comfort zone and push yourself with some dexterity challenges. Thank you!

Thanks for this lesson !

Thanks for your lessons. They are clear, interesting and helpful. Also, how dare you call a spider an insect. Lol.

Great job! I learned that stretching exercise 50 years ago on a two page sheet by Barney Kessel.

Happy New Year!

Very helpful, some very good exercises to try. Just the sort of thing I've been looking for.

Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing the knowledge! I recently stumbled on your tutorial for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and I'm so glad I finally found your channel! There is so much good stuff there. Thank you for sharing. I already am better for it. That solo in Folsom Prison is next! Great stuff, and so very appreciated. All the best to you in 2021!

Legend! Thank you Adrian 🙏

Wow that stretch is hard!! I can't get a comfortable hand position to do it more than one or two frets even starting in the 12 fret area!!

Tut-tut, Adrian. Not for thinking that spiders are insect but for thinking that there are muscles in your fingers; there aren't, the fingers have tendons - as I know from having severed the flexor tendons in the first and second fingers of my left hand.

Some really useful exercises here thanks. I’m trying to practice two hours a day so some variation is always a good thing. All the best for 2021! 👍

Adrian playing the arpeggios: What I like to do is play the first one going up and the second one going down. Me: OooO, you dirty boy! This one has always been tough for me and now I want to get back at it! Thanks for the video my friend!

You were correct about spiders.

Hello Adrian. I started picking up the guitar since a very long time now and started by learning some Joy Division songs thanks to ypir channel. I am now keen on getting on with this kind of stuff to get better.

You are correct, a spider is an arachnid. Arachnida is a class of joint-legged invertebrate animals, in the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroons. So therefore this exercise could also be called the "Arachnid" or even the "Vinegaroon" or the "Scorpion".

I think a possible candidate name for the pinky exercise would be the caterpillar. I have no idea if that insect is already used for a different exercise, but seems to fit for this one.

happy new year. Thank you for teaching us so well.

Great way to start the new year! Thanks so much for your wonderful and well-presented videos. Love your sense of humor too! (oops, humour). Cheers

Happy New Year Adrian, thank you for all of your videos, all going some way to making my dumb fingers play better!!

Thanks a lot for the lesson and the exercises. Good way to improve my guitar skills.

Great lesson. Thanks!

These are some great exercises I fully intend to work on! Very challenging, just what I needed! The camera angle made it somewhat difficult to see what you were doing at all times! Still a great video thanks for posting!

Happy new 2021, bonne et joyeuse année🇫🇷👍🏼🍒

happy new year and thanks!!

😷-good challenging stuff Adrian! Always enjoy your vids!👍 Happy New Year-stay fit and well!😊

Happy new year adrian and thanks for all your great videos and teaching!

Exercising the digitus minimus manus is important. It was the Scots that gave it the name "pinkie" referencing something small.

Happy New Year Adrian. Thank you for the lesson. :)

Aaargh! 🤨 Thank you as well as "curses"! Nice way to show tons of things I need to work on in only 27 minutes! 🤘🏼👍🏻

Happy New Year! Thanks for another great lesson

Thanks and happy new year!

Felicidades Andrew, love yours teaching as well ❤

Thank you!

Hi Adrian, happy New Year....hopefully a good one ahead!

Happy New Year Ade! Thanks for this.

Thanks man, cheers!

Thanks Adrian! Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year Adrian. All the best.

VERY Informative ty

thank you im trying to save up for a guiter right now because i just got a new phone my old phone was really bad i could barley use it

The true Spider Exercise is a classical guitar exercise using octaves. I learned it in college while taking a classical guitar course. I have the sheet music for it, titled Spider Exercise.

the classic 'finger permutations!!'

Adrian..finally pulled the plug on the Eastwood McGeoch SG1000....LOVE IT.....as a fellow McGeoch fan, would love to hear you tackle 'Rhythm of Cruelty'. Happy 2021 ps Have you ever thought of tackling some Vini Reilly/Durutti Column?...Manchesters finest. Good luck... HA! pss .. The X song.....'Our Lips Are Sealed' uncanny

Thank you very much for all of your wonderful lessons Adrian! I wish you a very Happy New Year too! I've already learned a lot from your videos and look forward to studying even more.

Suggestion for the pinky exercise: The Crippled Ant.

Happy New Year ! to you also.

Thank you agian

There are 24 finger exercises starting with 1234. The next would be 1243, 1324, 1342, 1423,1432. Then you start with 2 and go 2134 and by process of elimination you will get to the last one 4321. I learned these from a guitarist who studied with Pat Martino.

A little bit of a stretch! That's a fret and half more than I can stretch!

Well after watching this I have come to the conclusion that you are a Guitar God.

Your 'little' finger is the same length as my middle. Great video, Happy New Year! I just viewed your lesson on Nosferatu Man - absolutely amazing. Any chance of Breadcrumb Trail? (Keeping up the 'spider' theme). Also Deafheaven's 'Dream House'?

Misserably failed at the stretching exercise. I guess I will do some left hand yoga from now on.

Happy New Year, Adrian!

Cheers.

Hard exercise is the Chords from Peg, by Stealy dan. My hands refused to do them at first.

Happy new year!

Fantastic!

Exercises open up greater ability to do what you want to do on the fingerboard. The more fluid you become with exercises, the more natural you will find your compositioning.

Nice one Adrian, that will be invaluable, thanks for a wonderful year of posts. I hope that you and yours have a wonderful year. 😎🎸🎙✅

Happy New Year Adrian!

As soon as an arachnid or insect or marsupial (or alien, for that matter) plays and teaches as well as you, I think you're good:)

Happy New Year! With these exercises, can I use a whisk or do you recommend drum sticks? Nice sweater btw.

Happy new year, can u make video about right hand technique for acoustic and electric.

Happy New Year

Happy new year

Hi Adrian. Happy new year. How about some stuff from The Damned?

Hi Adrian, What I also really need are exercises covering all natural note locations, (but not accidentals) on fretboard, and which are ''Instantly'' known. ie no ''L'' shape stuff. When I just about know all their locations (after some effort) and after an interval, no pun intended, and lack of usage they are gone again. So a routine attached to your 10 exercises would be much appreciated. How about it?? Best regards,

Good vid