Epic Guitar Exercises

Daily picking and fretting exercises in A: chromatic warm-ups, pentatonic sequences in threes, fours and fourths, the extended and blues scales, and A mixolydian.

What you will be able to play

• Alternate-pick across strings evenly on both downstrokes and upstrokes.
• Play a two-octave chromatic scale from A with clean shifts and an even attack.
• Play the A minor pentatonic in descending and ascending groups of four and three.
• Play the A minor pentatonic in fourths with clean finger rolls.
• Run the extended A minor pentatonic up the neck with slides, the major third and the blues note.
• Play the A blues scale in 16th notes and triplets in time with a metronome.
• Apply groups of four to A mixolydian over an A7 sound.

Is it for you?

Players who know the A minor pentatonic box at the 5th fret and can alternate-pick, and who want a structured daily technique routine for lead playing. The first three lessons suit late beginners; the sequences, extended scale and mode work are intermediate. It is not a licks or songs course, and it does not explain scale theory: Marty assumes you already have at least one pentatonic shape under your fingers.

What you get

• 22 video lessons in teaching order
• Taught by Marty Schwartz, David Taub
• Level: Beginner to intermediate
• Watch on the web or in the GuitarJamz app, on any device, with your progress kept
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