Great exercise! I have been playing for 20 years, and this is a great way to approach dexterity exercises. I have done many similar exercises over the years, so it didn’t take but a few seconds to catch up to these with the video. I do plan on working on this with a metronome to not only build speed, but to first build consistent timing. Please keep content like this coming. It isn’t just good for beginners, but something for those of us that have played for a couple of decades as well!

Excellent, great progress from the traditional spider exercises.

Terrific - thank you!

Nice. More please 💪😁

Awesome great music. Playing guitar 🎸. So sound 👍

Very similar to MAB‘s warm-ups. I’ve been doing those for about a year now. Feels so good on my aging 80s heavy metal fingers, ha ha. Another technique that could be thrown in is working on sweep picking. So, with the opening lick, instead of ‘picking’ each downstroke, one could smoothly glide through each string in a sweeping motion. Meaning, not visibly picking each string, but sweeping smoothly through. For example, after sweeping through the low E, rest the pick right up against the A string and sweep that As soon as your ring finger is about to fret the seven fret. And so on. So it’s not a jerky motion, but a very fluid movement. You can find a lot of great videos on this technique online. I wish I would’ve known that early on while working on sweeps. Watch MAB. He will keep your fingers healthy, and faster than you could ever imagine. 🤘🏻🎸🇺🇸 Of course if you’re working on your pick attack, which I do all the time also, then you would want to pick every note. I love using alternate picking for this opening exercise he shows here. I change it up. But for me, doing heavy (and light) picking, with palm and string muting, just feels so good. Great for working on your dynamics also. I think a tricky pattern is trying to pick one string hard, and the next one light, and so on. Or, pick the low strings heavy, and the high strings with a very light touch as quietly as you can. And vice versa. … or with a lot of upstrokes, which he probably covers here too. Anyway, sorry to jump in here, just thought I might be able to help someone. Now I’ll go back and finish watching this great video. These guys and gals are great here at PMT!!! 🤘🏻🎸🇺🇸

Just want I needed as a beginner.....excellent exercise 👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸

AND do not get in the habit of letting the first finger point out, and the pinky flailing while using other fingers… or flexing/curling up any finger not in use. That is a bad habit to start, and hard to change later. Plus, you gotta look cool, not awkward. So keep any finger not in use, closer to the fretboard, to develop that great efficient muscle memory. I think that is something most people do not think about. But again, I see it in this control in the greats, and explicitly learned it from MAB a year ago. Luckily I wasn’t flailing too badly at all, so it just took a little re-training. This is called, neuromuscular reprogramming. Just like athletes have to do when they’re reinforced a bad habit for too long. 🎸🤘🏻🇺🇸

… and be aware of when you are doing straight alternate picking, or mixing in some ‘economy’ picking as he is doing here. Economy picking is great, and another thing I don’t think a lot of players, for sure younger players, learn. Economy picking here would be where he is descending back to the low E string, and down picking a note on the E, and going directly to down picking the A string. Almost like a mini sweep. Down picking-and up picking-two successive strings. This is great for three note per string runs, scales, and modes. That is one of Yngwie’s ‘secrets.’ He glides right through the strings like butter… and so quickly and effortlessly!!!

Tab for this somewhere?

What gets me is your muting technique.