0:35 Spider Exercise 4's 3:04 Spider Exercise 3's 4:41 Spider Exercise 2's 5:49 Spider Exercise 1's 6:29 Staggered Spider 1324 8:28 Staggered Spider 1423 10:02 Diagonal String Climb 11:27 Hammer/Pulls 12:51 Hammer/Pulls #2 14:35 Legato 16:35 Extended Stretches 17:01 Extended Stretches 3's 17:55 Extended Stretches 6's 19:22 Extended Stretches 9's 20:12 Cross String Spider 21:20 Cross String Spider skip a string 22:07 Single String Spider Climbs 23:30 Single String Spider Climbs 1 2 4 24:32 Single String Spider Climbs 1 3 4 25:41 Slide Walks 27:00 Bending Exercises 27:42 Bending 1/2 step 28:31 Bending Whole step 29:40 Sweep Picking 32:24 Tapping Thank you Mike for making this video, it is extremely helpful!

This may be one of the most important guitar videos. I'm serious. We spend so much time trying to learn everything, get confused, and then burned out. Where we should instead start with something that's goal oriented, foundational, as well as keep up moving. This workout is short enough and long enough that it keeps us activated with the guitar. If used daily it will open up a world of more techniques while allowing us to have a solid foundation of guitar playing. So, this will he my daily workout. I may find others, but this one will be my goto.

I want to thank you for these exercises. I have played professionally most of my life and now at almost 70 I had a "mild" stroke a year ago. I started these exercises 6 months ago and I can play again. Not yet to the degree I was but well on my way back. Thanks a million!!

I have done this workout (thru Legato) for 90 days straight. I cant put into words how much this has helped me. Its been my Rosetta Stone. I even signed up for your classes. Those are great too. Thanks!!!

Some suggestions for after you've been doing this for a while: 1. On all the picking exercises, start with an upstroke instead of a downstroke. I find it to be especially useful for the more picking-heavy exercises, such as the spider exercise. You can also try playing only downstrokes or upstrokes. 2. You can increase the video speed as you get better. For example, I find the legato exercises way too easy so I play them at 1.5 speed. 3. Some exercise specific suggestions: Legato - try playing it unplugged. on the last legato exercise, you can do 134 instead of 124. This way you're also exercising your Ring finger. Extended stretches - try moving down the frets, as the distance between the frets is bigger on the lower ones (Personally I'm not there yet lol, as I still can't do all 3 stretching exercises without stopping) Remember, you don't have to do ALL exercises - for example, I don't find the bending exercise very effective for me, so I usually skip it. And lastly, thanks for this video mike!

Been doing this before every practice for 5-6 days a week for a few months now, can't believe the difference it has made, will always recommend this and you to anybody wanting to improve.

It made me realize how much i suck and i need to practice

The slower you play, ✋The faster you'll learn 🎸 🤘 ❣️

This is hands down the best practice routine on youtube. It covers almost everything and exposed some things i should work on. Those 3 fret slide walks made me realize I let off the string prematurely and don't commit to the slide like I should.

It would be cool if you could do another one of these with different exercises, for example tremolo picking, vibrato, scale patterns, palm muting, like just other skills that this video didn't cover. Thank you for the lessons!

00:33 Spider Exercise (4's) 03:03 Spider Exercise (3's) 04:40 Spider Exercise (2's) 05:50 Spider Exercise (1's) 06:25 Staggered Spider (1324) 08:17 Staggered Spider (1423) 10:03 Diagonal String Climb 11:25 Hammer/Pulls 14:27 Legato 16:34 Extended Stretches (3's) 17:50 Extended Stretches (6's) 19:13 Extended Stretches (9's) 20:11 Cross String Spider 21:11 Skip String Spider 22:08 Single String Spider Climbs (1234) 23:21 Single String Spider Climbs (124) 24:33 Single String Spider Climbs (134) 25:41 Slide Walks 27:00 Bend (1/2 step) 28:30 Bend (1 step) 29:40 Sweep Picking 31:56 Tapping

You can also speed the video up in the video settings button if you want to go faster :-)

As a complete beginner, I'm only adding one "section" at a time and building, and I've only just started to add the extended stretches to the routine, but it has helped my playing a ton.

18/03/2024: Day 1 - 3:30 PM to 4:14 PM 19/03/2024: Day 2 - 7:45 PM to 8:28 PM 20/03/2024: Day 3 - 7:45 PM to 8:55 PM 21/03/2024: Day 4 - 5:00 PM to 5:45 PM 22/03/2024: Day 5 - 3:15 PM to 3:54 PM 23/03/2024: Day 6 - 3:55 PM to 4:37 PM 24/03/2024: Day 7 - 7:41 PM to 8:23 PM 25/03/2024: Day 8 - 11:11 AM to 11:50 AM 26/03/2024: Day 9 - 6:06 PM to 6:36 PM 27/03/2024: Day 10 - 5:32 PM to 6:02 PM 28/03/2024: Day 11 - 7:32 PM to 8:05 PM 29/03/2024: Day 12 - 7:24 PM to 7:59 PM 31/03/2024: Day 13 - 1:01 AM to 1:31 AM 31/03/2024: Day 14 - 3:21 PM to 3:53 PM 01/04/2024: Day 15 - 6:25 PM to 7:00 PM 02/04/2024: Day 16 - 11:30 PM to 12:02 AM 03/04/2024: Day 17 - 8:45 PM to 9:29 PM 04/04/2024: Day 18 - 8:32 PM to 9:11 PM 05/04/2024: Day 19 - 10:22 AM to 10:57 AM 06/04/2024: Day 20 - 3:55 PM to 4:35 PM 07/04/2024: Did not practice 08/04/2024: Day 21 - 12:55 PM to 1:24 PM 09/04/2024: Day 22 - 11:28 AM to 12:07 PM 10/04/2024: Day 23 - 01:30 PM to 02:01 PM 11/04/2024: Day 24 - 9:12 AM to 9:24 AM + 3:47 PM to 4:07 PM acoustic 12/04/2024: Day 25 - 09:05 PM to 09:39 PM acoustic 13/04/2024: DID NOT PRACTICE 14/04/2024: Day 26 - 11:05 AM to 11:38 AM acoustic 15/04/2024: Day 27 - 09:40 PM to 10:05 PM electric 16/04/2024: Day 28 - 10:30 PM to 10:55 PM electric 17/04/2024: DID NOT PRACTICE 18/04/2024: Day 29 - 10:09 PM to 10:28 PM 19/04/2024: Day 30 - 11: 10 PM to 11: 35 PM

This is one of the most useful lessons I've ever seen. Spectacular. I've been working for months and I started to do very well. Thank you :)

Just started learning this routine. The other video of just the spider exercise is, without a doubt, a great one. No doubt our fingers will get stronger and better doing these every day for a few weeks. Very good!

Wow this video is amazing.. Especially for someone who has been playing and never broken the barrier of beginner intermediate. I mean I quit guitar after John Petrucci's guitar lesson.. And your video gives me... Hope.. And inspiration. This lesson is meticulous and profound. I am sure if followed regularly in 100 days anyone would see the difference.. It is a well rounded lesson. Hats off to you Mike..

Mike is the handsome older brother you never had.

I Would suggest a possible tip for any future videos like this; I know many people would disagree with me but I would suggest perhaps choosing a fully clean or cleaner tone for future videos like this because when certain tones like this one aren't used musically, they're just played scale-ish like in these exercises, the tone can begin to sound harsh and irritating after a while. I think a cleaner sound with be a better long term thing to listen to especially when players like me play along to this video everyday and especially at faster video speeds.

wow amazing routine, i had a multi year break after playing and teaching myself for 9 years and just got back into it again 1 month ago and this is absolutely perfect to get back into that hand synchronization and dexterity

These exercises are perfect if you want to improve dexterity and stamina. Amazing lesson.

This video helpt me in 8 months more then self practice and 2 guitar teachers did in 10 years!!!

Thanks for your noble efforts for guitar beginners.

I've been coming back to this every now and then over the years. Just wanted to say thanks for the great video.

I literally watch and do this everyday. Thank you Mike!

Well, I've found my new warm up before practicing! 20 years nearly, I've played. It's time I stop being a scrub and git gud.

I was so happy when I found this, saved it right away and it was going to be my daily warm up, here we are year later and I'm doing it for the second time...

This is great. I’ve learned hundreds of noodles and riffs but when I try to sit down and write a daily workout routine, I either go blank or practice them in the wrong order, putting too much strain on certain fingers. I’m really glad you focused on stretching, warming up, and giving each hand a break from certain motions. Reminds me of the old Petrucci workout videos.

El mejor video! Llevo 13 años tocando la guitarra, aprendí mucho en el transcurso de ese tiempo, estudié y toco cosas complejas, pero nunca hice ejercicios diariamente y constantemente, ayer descubrí éste video, lo estoy haciendo dos veces al día y los cambios ya se notan, siento que mis dedos flotan, muchísimas gracias, tu manera de enseñar es muy práctica y fácil de entender, es lo que necesitaba, gracias gracias

this is so good! @28:53 my intonation was weird so i threw in bend up/ slide up to same pitch/ bend back up and ensure you're intonation hits, thank you! finally found an exercise for leap-bends!

Ive seen you comment on other guitarists videos and youre very supportive I appreciate that big time

this video is the only video i come to during every home practice, thank you for making it

I’m 2 hrs into the 30 minute workout 😐

Your videos are a great help Im 60 and still love to practice not just learn licks THANK YOU Johnny

Yeah, im not surprise that it doesnt have any dislikes, i cannot express in words how useful these are, thnk you VERY, very much!!

There we go! Doing the stretches in 6's is where my hand started to hurt a little, so it's good to find a warmup that actually works my hand a little! As a college trained trombone player, it can be a struggle sometimes to find equally as useful warmup exercises like I'm used to for working on stuff like this, so these are very appreciated!

I've split this routine up into two days of 35 minutes practice. Keeps me from getting bored of doing the same routine every day, and also helps me focus more on each exercise... Thanks for posting this video! Very helpful!

This Channel Grows to one of my FAVOURITE Guitar Channels ... With you it's a real obsession with all your knowledge of technique and harmony etc. ABSOLUTELY great!!

This is one of the best practice routine I have come across. My recommendation is "normal sound would be best with out any effect" so that beginner can actually practice with you.

FINALLY someone that actually shows the exercise and explain why it helps!!!! I also subbed

Thanks! This is a great workout... really exposed some weaknesses! The arpeggio exercise is very nice and practical as well! sweeps are a goal of mine !!! Thanks a bunch Mike! Rock on!

I just start with the first exercise and really focusing on accuracy and playing, after a few days of already noticing a significant improvement in my playing.

This is great. Definitely will be putting these into my daily routine. Thank you.

Great lesson video, thanks for posting this video!! The Tabs definitely helped! 👍

I'm 52, and have wanted to learn the guitar forever!!! My hands have been VERY abused by my former employment. My hands are quite large and thick, so I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to stretch like you do, but I'll keep trying :-) And you lost me about 1/2 way through the lesson, I'm glad it's on YT so I can play it again.... And again... And again ;-) Thanks Mr Art of Guitar :-)

if this is "Level 1", then I am "Level 0.25"

Mike, truly great stuff. couldn't keep up on the 16ths @ 95bpm at first but three weeks and I​ can do it at 105 no sweat now I also do it backwards and have invented a couple of my own. Thanks a million and please give us more.

I have a lot of respect for your honesty, humility, and your interactive style of making videos

thank you for this workout. a i am a 56 years old pro from israel who suffered a stroke 2 years ago. my left hand has'nt been the same since then. i practice this workout daily and it slowly helps me regain my skils.

This is THE BEST guitar workout video I've ever seen !!! Thank you !!! :)

I cannot thank you enough! One of my new year's resolutions was to elevate my guitar playing and this video has helped me overcome a plateau I was on for a good five years! I am playing cleaner and more accurate than ever before, and I'm playing for 11 years now. In three months I went from doing these exercises at 90bpm to doing these exercises at 145bpm. Tbf, I did spare tapping for now, as it is not a technique I am particularly interested in rn. Anyways, keep it up man!

This is awesome, I've been doing this for about 2 weeks everyday. I've improved since I used this workout

Best session in youtube till date thanks a lot... i am struggling since months to get proper excercise to my fingers.. it was very helpful... better than any other in youtube.. moreover the best

Will try to pick this up as a general hand training session, not just for guitar. Crashed my motorcycle over 20 years ago and ended up with some sort of damage to my hands that has persisted ever since, even though I never needed surgury or anything, which ever since has limited me to about 4-5 minutes of playing before I had to give up from pain. Ended up discouraging me beyond keeping up practicing regularly. The past many years the old spade rarely got out, but i've started to feel an urge to pick it up again, quite strongly driven by all the help you can find here on youtube; I've found out a ton of stuff I've always done wrong, and learned a bunch about improving the simple urge to play by things like finding and having better tone and getting the gear set up better to ease playing. All amazing advice. ======>>>Something completely different: While basically going through the clip getting an idea of what it was all about, i noticed a possible odd side effect of the training regime: I started to sort of intuitively identify what mike is doing not so much from what i see as from what i hear!! Weirded me a little bit out for a moment.....Could it be that these apparently "dull" sounding exercises could actually end up training your "ear-finger" coordination (for the lack of a better term) and end up sort of learning you to audibly/intuitively "feel" by ear where the notes you want your fingers to play next are? Does this sound like complete nonsense? Or?

I I’ve these type of vids. Please keep them coming.

I would like to tell that I would truly love this exercises when I was starting this is a gold for a beginner its very basic and very straight to the point for more crazy guys out there I would recommend John Petruccis tutorial which is insane particularly for sweeps and alternate picking! Thank you very much to find time to do this great series-if you have a time to do more advanced staff on string skipping tappings 6 string sweeps string skipping arpeggios I would be more than happy

Thanks so much for creating this! I tried the whole thing today and it really highlighted the weak points in my technique, as well as things that are very physically challenging for me.

These are super important and I do these when I warm up. It really does make a difference in the long run. Most classic heavy metal songs are legato crazy and bend crazy as well.

This is the best Guitar exercise video ever, I have only been able to do Spider exercises properly and can already feel the difference in my playing. I am going to follow this video everyday. Thank you.

Video has been my new morning routine , although i had to put playback speed .05x to slow the pace even downer , cheers 🤟🏻🤍

This video is great and actually started me actually PRACTICING for the first time since I started (13, I'm now 30). When I was a kid, "practicing" would be playing through the exam songs I needed for my grades and improvising in the scales I had been taught. Because that's still fun but it counts as "practice". My teacher was a great guy but not an especially technical player and we mostly used to do songs or improvising solos with scales, along with some theory. No real technique practice like this. Any new players out there, USE YOUR PINKY! It's easier to use your 3rd finger for everything because it's stronger but I never really used my pinky starting off, it wasn't instilled into me and it's still weak as hell all these years later. Thanks Mike!

i did a metalcore riff i'm trying to perfect since a few days after doing these exercices, and this is so much easier now lol, al:so great way for me to identifies my default huge thanks :)

Much respect. Been self teaching for a while and this vid is gonna teach me some good stuff.

"and now we're gonna do some string-skipping spider excercises" so this is it...this is how i die...

You're amazing man I've learnt so many things from you keep uploading this kinda videos and god bless you!

Super ideas out there among the regular usual stuff. I love the variation on the spider thingy and the string skipping exercice was really tricky. Thanks a lot for the inspiration !

Man every time I watch and learn something from one of your video exercise lessons I find about 4 more vids I have to add to my watch later Playlist. Thanks for sharing your experience 👊

Best guitar workout ever NO CAP

I really dig this video. It’s kinda like the John Petrucci DVD and it’s full of different approaches to finger individuality. Loving it!

yaaaas this is exactly what i need, just do this once a day, then play rocksmith a ton. Should whip me in to shape in no time

This is THE video. No more wondering what to warm up with. Thank you!

This is amazing. Everything I was looking for in 1 video. Thank you so much! Pull offs are hard but this exercice is very helpful . Who am I kidding everything here is helpful

This video is a real gem. I put the playback speed X2 and do this everyday as my warm-up routine.

So much done in 30 mins (maybe longer with hitting spacebar in between). Best workout I've come across, thanks!

This and the downpicking exercise have vastly improved my general playing on both my electric and acoustic guitars. It’s only been a week or so since I began doing them both consistently, so I hope so see a ton more improvement to come Thanks man!

This is by Far the best class to start . I started classes locally and classes are wack . This is helping me more than I expected . I am a new subscriber and a fan. Salute

Aewsome video, was searching for a video just like this to start practicing, loved it!!

Awesome lesson. This is was I’ve been looking for. I can definitely feel my hands being worked!! Thx for video🤘🏻

This is so perfect, thank you! I can already see my improvement in my playing. Gonna do this every day right when I wake up and right before I sleep.

thank you so much for this practice! been playing guitar for 9 years now and this is really good for me

I only started this yesterday but I noticed today that my fingers are so much more confident on the fretboard? Like when I'm playing it feels smoother and I'm so excited to keep practicing this stuff coz boy does it feel good to be playing better and getting better technical skills. Thanks Mike!

man the extended stretches are brutal, they kill me everytime

Thanks man ! helped me!

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. It's become part of my daily practice!

Hey Mike as someone whos been learning and followi g a lot of your videos, this was def a great watch, Its easier to practice with these follow along style vids, so if you ever need Ideas for videos, I wouldn't mind at all you uploading a few more of these follow along exercises routines! Awesome stuff! Hope to see more!

Geez I've been playing for longer than I care to admit and really found some good, well-rounded stuff in this workout - only did variations of a spider exercise before this, *THANKS* for putting something together with a little bit of everything, really helps!

Thank u Mike it's very helpful to learn the guitar exercises. I am practising all the day ❤❤❤❤

it amazes me that people vote that many thumbs down. i've seen remarkable performances with numerous thumbs down. if they just tap the icon and leave without explanation how are we to know what they didn't like about it. anyway, there are some good exercises here to enhance ones playing. i certainly could benefit if i use this model. thank you and nice work.

Great shirt man. Buffy was a solid show!

I am just recovering from golfer's elbow and was looking to change my exercise routine. Well, I will take a chance with this workout definitely mostly at 72 or 80 bpm to start with. I will avoid any distortion though. It pissed me off... Good work! Keep on.

When I do these with the video I feel like when I go jogging and sweat my butt off and then notice someone's WALKING next to me at exactly. the. same. pace.

I love the exercise it’s not boring thank god and I feel I’m getting better with it!👍🏼

jsut did this again... it is an amazing video, my overall playing improves so much. thanks again. you are a master to many.

This is like taking lessons, thank you very much!

Just came across this video and am eager to get started on it. Thank you for posting.

Thanks For this!!! Greetings from Chile!

Anyone familiar with the Dragon Quest series of games (not many people in the West, sadly!) will instantly recognize all of these exercises!!!!

Excellent exercises, thank you Mike! These have really opened up my alternate picking.

Very good exercise. The sweeping part is perfect for me as I'm just about beginning with sweeping

For this you got my subscription. I want to see more. Great material