All exercises
Here you'll find a list of all available exercises sorted by instrument and by their respective types.
Each exercise consists of one or more variations that are actual instructions on what to practice in that exercise.
Lead Guitar
Guitar tuner and general info on practicing the guitar.
Warmup
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes on the fretboard | Warmup | Learn the notes on the fretboard and warm yourself up very slowly. | 1 | 5:00 |
| The Spider | Warmup | Slowly train your fingers to make economic micro-movements on the fretboard. | 6 | 5:00 |
| The Chromatic Scale | Warmup | Steady right hand picking and learning micro-movements. | 1 | 5:00 |
| The Quasi-Chromatic Scale | Warmup | Left and right hand synchronization. | 10 | 5:00 |
Scales
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pentatonic Scale | Scales | Learn and practice different positions of the pentatonic scale. | 15 | 10:00 |
| The Major Scale | Scales | Learn and practice different positions of the major scale. | 10 | 10:00 |
| Modes of the Major Scale | Scales | Learn and practice all the modes of the major scale. | 14 | 10:00 |
Arpeggios
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triadic arpeggios | Arpeggios | Learn to break up major and minor chords into arpeggios. | 4 | 10:00 |
Legato
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16th notes and 16th note triplets | Legato | Learn to switch between sixteenth notes and sixteenth note triplets | 7 | 10:00 |
| 16th note pull offs and hammer ons on the major scale | Legato | Practice hammer-ons and pull offs on cool major scale licks. | 7 | 10:00 |
| Major scale 16th note triplets hammer ons and pull offs | Legato | Practice hammer-ons and pull offs on cool major scale licks, focusing on 16th note triplets. | 7 | 10:00 |
| Major scale 16th note triplets pull offs and hammer ons | Legato | Practice pull offs and hammer ons on cool major scale licks, focusing on 16th note triplets. | 7 | 10:00 |
| Hammer-ons on the pentatonic scale | Legato | Practice hammer-ons on some exciting pentatonic licks. | 5 | 10:00 |
| 16th notes pull offs and hammer ons | Legato | Practice hammer-ons and pull offs on cool licks used in rock music. | 5 | 10:00 |
| 16th note triplets pull offs and hammer ons (pentatonic) | Legato | Practice hammer-ons and pull offs on cool licks used in rock music, focusing on 16th note triplets. | 5 | 10:00 |
| Pull-offs on the pentatonic scale | Legato | Practice pull-offs on some exciting pentatonic licks. | 5 | 10:00 |
Alternate Picking
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single string alternate picking | Alternate Picking | Develop a good right hand picking technique. | 1 | 10:00 |
| Inside and outside picking | Alternate Picking | Learn and practice the difference between inside and outside picking. | 7 | 10:00 |
| Pedal Tone Alternate Picking | Alternate Picking | Practice a pedal tone lick on a three note per string scale. | 7 | 5:00 |
| The Rhythm Pyramid | Alternate Picking | Learn to switch between whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, etc. | 7 | 10:00 |
| Two string and three string alternate picking | Alternate Picking | Practice alternate picking on short phrases from the major scale | 7 | 10:00 |
| 16th note alternate picking position shifting | Alternate Picking | Learn to play scales horizontally on two string and efficiently shift you hand up and down the neck. | 7 | 10:00 |
String Skipping
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| String skipping on the horizontal major scale | String Skipping | Play the major scale on two strings that are at least one whole string apart. | 7 | 5:00 |
| Triadic Arpeggios with String Skipping | String Skipping | Learn new finger positions of arpeggios and play them with string skipping. | 3 | 5:00 |
Tapping
| Name | Type | Aim | Variations | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single string tapping | Tapping | Train all your fingers for tapping with simple single-string exercises. | 2 | 10:00 |
| Double pentatonics | Tapping | Learn how to use pentatonic shapes with both hands. | 5 | 5:00 |
| Harmonic tapping | Tapping | Learn a different kind of tapping where you produce harmonics. | 1 | 5:00 |
| Pedal tone tapping | Tapping | Practice tapping with some cool neo-classical licks | 4 | 5:00 |
| Pentatonic tapping | Tapping | Practice tapping on simple pentatonic licks. | 3 | 5:00 |
| String skip tapping | Tapping | Practice tapping while skipping strings with the fretting hand. | 2 | 5:00 |
| Four note per string tapping | Tapping | Learn to join 3 note per string patterns into 4 note per string tapping patterns. | 7 | 5:00 |