Thanks for checking out Kirk Hammett’s favorite pre-show warmup with me! Get even more out of by snagging the TAB and practice tracks for all the variations here: www.patreon.com/posts/90672330?
LOVED your words about Kirk, totally on spot. He has never claimed to be anything, he has remained humble and just only caring about what really matters: having fun with the guitar. That's it!
I love how you are not hating or taking the piss out of Kirk but actually admiring him and using what he was showing Rick and turning it Into some really good tutorials for us! Keep up the amazing content.
Funny how I saw Justin Guitar years ago when he talked about the spider exercise. This is very similar except you added so many useful ways of getting way more out of it.
I couldn’t agree more Uncle Ben! Kirk inspired me to pick up the guitar as a kid, like thousands of others, and after seeing the Beato interview it was inspiring to see how after all these years he’s still so passionate about the instrument. I can’t wait to try these exercises out. Great video 🤘
Yeah, the Inside Out exercise from Rock Discipline has been a part of my warmup for like 15 years now, and I've taught it to every student I've ever had.
@@PauCardona Honestly, I've done a bunch of Rock Discipline andif I were you I'd try all of it and see what mskes you progress the best. Really they are very similar. The early stuff in Petrucci's taught me cross picking, which translated into being able to start effectively practicing stuff like what is being proposed as Hammett's very quickly. Neither is better. All of it is very effective.
I'm an old guy and need a good 45 min to limber up the fingers . I haven't tried the jazz one yet but have been doing the slant with sweep and pick slanting . Thanks to a recent vid of yours I've improved my picking and economy by holding the pick more relaxed . Less tiring and more expressive as well .
I've done this for many years after I've seen a Joe Satch video back in 2010. It has been my go to for warm ups. I also do it in all 3 sections 6,5,4 / 4,3,2/ 3,2,1 strings simply cause they all feel different
Played for 20 years, stopped playing and gor back into it recently. Your channel has given me so many exercises that have kickstsrted my playing again. So thank you.
Man, this felt completely foreign to me until you got to the sweep picking section at 0:50 , then my hands felt right at home. It turns out Necrophagist does this kinda thing in a couple songs. It's weird how I stumbled and fumbled through the chords & crosspicking, only to feel perfectly natural sweep picking the same pattern. I think that's probably a sign that I'm not a very versatile guitar player.
I had a subscription to Guitar for the Practicing Musician some 30 years ago when Joe published this exercise as part of his monthly column and have used some variation of this as part of my warmup ever since. Not only is Joe a great guitarist but much like yourself😉 also a really great instructor. Besides Kirk, Joe has an amazing list of past students, some of the best guitarists around, Vai, Skolnik, LaLonde, David Bryson, Phil Kettner...I mean c'mon! Thanks for sharing this with all of the variations, tab and music files. You really are a positive influence and your friendly, patient and open style of instruction is the best. 🎸🤘
So, I've got a copy of the Rock Discipline video from back in the day. John performed the exercise by keeping the fingers that don't need to move down on the fretboard and not lifting them at all. It's tough like an old school classical warmup :)
Another amazing video @BenEller! I love Kirk's early solos and man there's some deceptively difficult stuff happening in a bunch of them. I can play some pretty quick and tricky alternate picked runs but one that has always frustrated me is the descending sequence in the solo for The Call of Ktulu. It happens around 4:15 and it's a right hand nightmare. Do you have any advice for how to tackle this specific run, and others like it, where the right hand picking changes strings at odd times with no real pattern to rely on?
Damn , I saw the Beato video and was like I can’t tell the fingering ..I wrongly assumed it was not just 4 frets and strings in order per finger until seeing the tab pop up here @around 3:03 mins… the real sad part is ,even knowing it’s straight forward I’m still gonna have major difficulty with it 🤷🏼♂️😬
I can for sure say that my favorite warmup stuff is still Frank Gambale's chop builders stuff because all of it doesn't sound like garbage and there is many different techniques he uses. Heck, you can even slow down the RUclips videos for if you want to play the warmup stuff slower.
Great video! I love warm up routines. My favorite book of all time (music book) is Pat Metheny's warm up routines. Literally 14 of Pat's actual warm ups recorded and transcribed. I love playing through them. I've done this rolling inverted Maj7 thing for years, thought I was smart until I realized it was a Petrucci lesson I picked out of Guitar Player in 1997....😂
Looks like a really good warm up routine from a number of angles. Your picking and fretting looks very delicate. Very good technique. Mine sucks and is probably why my thumbs hurt so badly.
I found this back in my teens from a tab book that had collected Satrianis guitar columns which included this and there's also a variation with diminished chord shapes which is wayyyyy harder than this. I bet you can find an old interview where he plays some of these on his chrome guitar. ruclips.net/video/JNDyI5b3Fh8/видео.html 3:43 onwards. The figure six is exactly what Ben is talking about.
First off .. I am not a "Metal" guy at all, Yeah I'm and old guy (nope older than that lol) But I can and do appreciate the talent & energy it takes to create and perform this music, I really like Kirk for all the same reasons you mentioned Uncle Ben. Setting some of the ultra iconic intro riffs and keeping the crybaby alive and relevant. The guy is simply cool .. And a Hero I mean just think about it, He has to work and put up with "Lars" all the time.. Now that's some real Alpha Male stuff.. LOL. Thanks Uncle Ben you are appreciated.
So after my 5 year hiatus i have decided to get back on the horse. bought a DYI guitarworks duo that i have to paint and build myself. Its on the way so now im just mentally preparing myself for the headace of getting a bootleg floid rose guitar built by my tiny little hands in tune.
My first guitar teacher showed me an exercise a lot like this, but it was more for finger independence and stretching rather than picking. You'd start with the 4 3 2 1 shape, then instead of mirroring it right away, you'd leave your index and pinky in place, but switch your middle and ring fingers so you'd be playing 4 2 3 1. Then you'd switch the outside fingers so you're on 1 2 3 4, then inside fingers again to 1 3 2 4. He had me do the same thing, but with a fret between my index/ middle fingers, as well as between my pinky/ring fingers. So like 12 14 15 17. I don't know why i stopped...
I remember seeing this first as a sweep picking exercise mentioned by John Petrucci & Tosin Abasi, and damn I hadn’t thought how it might be applicable for a bunch of other exercises This is gonna be Useful as fuck
The sweep version of that four string picking exercise is Petrucci's go to for sweep technique. Personally, I like Steve Morse's arpeggio alternate picking exercise.
My ear went to Randy R's tap solo at end of fl ' n high agn. Instead of tap'n , I picked the the G on the B strg & ham 'rd on/off the B to D on the E . on so on. then tried reversing the pattern like in the exercise. Hope this makes sense Ben? Cmaj 7 to Gmaj7 ? was kinda cool sounding...
Hey Ben, thanks for taking it easy on Kirk. Making fun of him has become fashionable for some reason. He's just a goofy, nice guy who still has a nerdy enthusiasm about playing guitar. I don't know how anyone can watch that Beatto interview and hate the guy. And for all the criticism of his solos (overused pentatonics, wah), what does every guitarist want? To develop a signature, instantly recognizable style. For better or worse, when you hear a Kirk Hammett solo, you know it right away.
Twins. Just bought that same color and model. First Jackson. How do you like it? The Petrucci book is amazing. Overwhelming amount of great practice ideas.
Ben I have a problem , when I’m playing a run for example that ends on a downstroke and goes to the string above on a upstroke(inside picking) I can play it slow and it is fine but as soon as I speed it up my hand jumps over it and hits another downstroke. It’s very strange as I’m a downwards pick slanter but I’m trying upwards pick slanting to get the hang of this lick. Do u have any ideas?
While Kirk’s modern solos with Metallica don’t sound nearly as interesting to me, he definitely has some of the most memorable and inspiring in his yesteryear repertoire that I’ll always enjoy listening to.
Steve Vai uses something similar to this across 3 strings in the Attitude Song solo. As for Kirk, I generally like his playing. I do think he over-uses the wah and I think his solos on the last couple of albums were somewhat lacking. That being said, his stuff in the 80s into the 90s was fantastic. Not the most technically demanding, but still fiery and inventive. He's always had a humble and goofy demeanor, which I've always liked. I've heard it said several times about how he has never claimed to be the God of Guitar or anything that egotistical. Also, not too many people mention the fact that he can keep up with Hetfield live. I've noticed that he even downpicks some of the stuff that Hetfield has started to alternate pick.
Thanks for checking out Kirk Hammett’s favorite pre-show warmup with me! Get even more out of by snagging the TAB and practice tracks for all the variations here: www.patreon.com/posts/90672330?
My hand fingers need this.
I have heard of your deeds.
LOVED your words about Kirk, totally on spot. He has never claimed to be anything, he has remained humble and just only caring about what really matters: having fun with the guitar. That's it!
THAT INTRO SONG IYKYK!
The Goosebumps theme made this the best video you've ever made.
Kirk is an awesome guitarist and one hell of a guitar enthusiest. I saw the super long interview and it was amazing....worth the time spent watching!
Ain’t gonna lie… when I heard Kirk say, “jazz chord relay,” and he started showing Rick the exercise, I lost it. 😂
I love how you are not hating or taking the piss out of Kirk but actually admiring him and using what he was showing Rick and turning it Into some really good tutorials for us! Keep up the amazing content.
Funny how I saw Justin Guitar years ago when he talked about the spider exercise. This is very similar except you added so many useful ways of getting way more out of it.
I couldn’t agree more Uncle Ben! Kirk inspired me to pick up the guitar as a kid, like thousands of others, and after seeing the Beato interview it was inspiring to see how after all these years he’s still so passionate about the instrument. I can’t wait to try these exercises out. Great video 🤘
Really great bunch of exercises! John Petrucci had similar exercises in his Rock Discipline method. Super useful!
Yeah I've pretty much copied my warm up routine from that video. Every guitarist should watch that.
Exactly what I immediately thought.
Yeah, the Inside Out exercise from Rock Discipline has been a part of my warmup for like 15 years now, and I've taught it to every student I've ever had.
I'm doing whatever parts I can from Rock Discipline (just 2 years playing exp) which one do you consider better, Pettrucci's or Hammett's?
@@PauCardona Honestly, I've done a bunch of Rock Discipline andif I were you I'd try all of it and see what mskes you progress the best. Really they are very similar. The early stuff in Petrucci's taught me cross picking, which translated into being able to start effectively practicing stuff like what is being proposed as Hammett's very quickly. Neither is better. All of it is very effective.
I'm an old guy and need a good 45 min to limber up the fingers . I haven't tried the jazz one yet but have been doing the slant with sweep and pick slanting . Thanks to a recent vid of yours I've improved my picking and economy by holding the pick more relaxed . Less tiring and more expressive as well .
I've done this for many years after I've seen a Joe Satch video back in 2010. It has been my go to for warm ups. I also do it in all 3 sections 6,5,4 / 4,3,2/ 3,2,1 strings simply cause they all feel different
Best guitar learning channel on internet, thanks so much uncle Ben, cheers from Vancouver, Canada.
Absolutely the best Kirk Hammet interview I've ever seen.
This might be your best lesson yet.
John Petrucci uses this technique for warmups since 80's too, I watched it in Rock Discipline VHS.
This is awesome! I do a walk like this from E to e, but this method makes a lot of sense to adopt. You the man uncle Ben!
I’ve been looking for a demonstration of this! Thanks uncle Ben!
No better way to start my day than with a new lesson from my totally legitimate and not at all parasocial Uncle Ben
Played for 20 years, stopped playing and gor back into it recently. Your channel has given me so many exercises that have kickstsrted my playing again. So thank you.
Man, this felt completely foreign to me until you got to the sweep picking section at 0:50 , then my hands felt right at home. It turns out Necrophagist does this kinda thing in a couple songs.
It's weird how I stumbled and fumbled through the chords & crosspicking, only to feel perfectly natural sweep picking the same pattern. I think that's probably a sign that I'm not a very versatile guitar player.
Damn I always thought Kirk does wah pedal push ups before a show!
Awesome Ben, thanks! Saw the interview and could not find any tutorials on youtube on the exercise. Great stuff and great teaching as always
wow this is a great lesson, your personal exercise ideas- gonna start with the first few!
Arron from Intervals had a version where he would move the outer 2 fingers first then the inner 2. then move to a different position.
I use to do this years ago, going to start up again.
That Goosebumps intro is fire!!
Awesome, I was trying to figure out what Kirk was doing
I had a subscription to Guitar for the Practicing Musician some 30 years ago when Joe published this exercise as part of his monthly column and have used some variation of this as part of my warmup ever since. Not only is Joe a great guitarist but much like yourself😉 also a really great instructor. Besides Kirk, Joe has an amazing list of past students, some of the best guitarists around, Vai, Skolnik, LaLonde, David Bryson, Phil Kettner...I mean c'mon! Thanks for sharing this with all of the variations, tab and music files. You really are a positive influence and your friendly, patient and open style of instruction is the best. 🎸🤘
Amazing lesson! Thanks Ben!
Thanks for the video and the Kirk Respect 🫡
A more detailed version of this was presented as left hand warm up in Petrucci's dvd
This was great! Thanks, Ben!
I saw this and wanted to know what he was doing, and now this video! Thanks
This is a great series of warm up/exercises! Thanks step uncle dad!
Ben, you’ve got a great channel. Thank you for your knowledge.
Great exercise. I just picked up that Jackson in the same color, the thing is a shred machine. Totally agree about Kirk.
So, I've got a copy of the Rock Discipline video from back in the day. John performed the exercise by keeping the fingers that don't need to move down on the fretboard and not lifting them at all. It's tough like an old school classical warmup :)
Another amazing video @BenEller! I love Kirk's early solos and man there's some deceptively difficult stuff happening in a bunch of them. I can play some pretty quick and tricky alternate picked runs but one that has always frustrated me is the descending sequence in the solo for The Call of Ktulu. It happens around 4:15 and it's a right hand nightmare. Do you have any advice for how to tackle this specific run, and others like it, where the right hand picking changes strings at odd times with no real pattern to rely on?
Good video and great excercise
Damn , I saw the Beato video and was like I can’t tell the fingering ..I wrongly assumed it was not just 4 frets and strings in order per finger until seeing the tab pop up here @around 3:03 mins… the real sad part is ,even knowing it’s straight forward I’m still gonna have major difficulty with it 🤷🏼♂️😬
10:00 I think it’s “How Could I” from Focus
When I saw that clip, I was surprised no one had picked it up for a lesson. Nice breakdown 👍
I can for sure say that my favorite warmup stuff is still Frank Gambale's chop builders stuff because all of it doesn't sound like garbage and there is many different techniques he uses. Heck, you can even slow down the RUclips videos for if you want to play the warmup stuff slower.
Thanks Uncle Ben, Wether wha push ups or cross picking, some thing for everyone, great lesson!👍
Great video! I love warm up routines. My favorite book of all time (music book) is Pat Metheny's warm up routines. Literally 14 of Pat's actual warm ups recorded and transcribed. I love playing through them. I've done this rolling inverted Maj7 thing for years, thought I was smart until I realized it was a Petrucci lesson I picked out of Guitar Player in 1997....😂
Looks like a really good warm up routine from a number of angles. Your picking and fretting looks very delicate. Very good technique. Mine sucks and is probably why my thumbs hurt so badly.
I found this back in my teens from a tab book that had collected Satrianis guitar columns which included this and there's also a variation with diminished chord shapes which is wayyyyy harder than this. I bet you can find an old interview where he plays some of these on his chrome guitar.
ruclips.net/video/JNDyI5b3Fh8/видео.html 3:43 onwards. The figure six is exactly what Ben is talking about.
I remember seeing this when satch used to do a colum for guitar player mag lol. Im old
Ben!!! I love the new guitar! I can’t decide between this color or the shell pink one… both are stupidly beautiful instruments
Dude those were my top picks too!!!
@@BenEller the black one is gorgeous too but if I’m spending $2000 it better be pink or teal 😅
First off .. I am not a "Metal" guy at all,
Yeah I'm and old guy (nope older than that lol)
But I can and do appreciate the talent & energy it takes to create and perform this music,
I really like Kirk for all the same reasons you mentioned Uncle Ben.
Setting some of the ultra iconic intro riffs and keeping the crybaby alive and relevant.
The guy is simply cool ..
And a Hero I mean just think about it,
He has to work and put up with "Lars" all the time..
Now that's some real Alpha Male stuff.. LOL.
Thanks Uncle Ben you are appreciated.
Kirk Hammett can sure jam it
So after my 5 year hiatus i have decided to get back on the horse. bought a DYI guitarworks duo that i have to paint and build myself. Its on the way so now im just mentally preparing myself for the headace of getting a bootleg floid rose guitar built by my tiny little hands in tune.
Ngl, even I'm surprised that beato asked him about that exercise when he was literally doing it 😅
It’s Peg meets Liquid Tension Experiment. Which we need.
My first guitar teacher showed me an exercise a lot like this, but it was more for finger independence and stretching rather than picking. You'd start with the 4 3 2 1 shape, then instead of mirroring it right away, you'd leave your index and pinky in place, but switch your middle and ring fingers so you'd be playing 4 2 3 1. Then you'd switch the outside fingers so you're on 1 2 3 4, then inside fingers again to 1 3 2 4. He had me do the same thing, but with a fret between my index/ middle fingers, as well as between my pinky/ring fingers. So like 12 14 15 17.
I don't know why i stopped...
Pretty sure this was also in JP's rock discipline and FG's workout video, cool variations btw!
I remember seeing this first as a sweep picking exercise mentioned by John Petrucci & Tosin Abasi, and damn I hadn’t thought how it might be applicable for a bunch of other exercises
This is gonna be Useful as fuck
The sweep version of that four string picking exercise is Petrucci's go to for sweep technique. Personally, I like Steve Morse's arpeggio alternate picking exercise.
With all due respect, this is Joe's warm up. I've been using it over 20 years now. Joe and Kirk have always been my heros.
Out of the park!
that intro music gave me goosebumps 😉
I wish I would have found your lessons years ago
you only appear to me with beautiful guitars.But you deserve it because you play very well.
Thank you!
He likes nice things 😊
@@johnscott2076 True, Johns
ha. love the goosebumps in there
Epic exercises
DUDE!!! TEACH US THE GOOSEBUMPS THEME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never understood the dislike for Hammett, every single solo on first 5 Metallica albums are compelling, exciting, and memorable.
Very cool!
thx for sharing
I'm not entirely convinced Kirk doesn't do wah push ups in addition, but I like this video.😎
He definitely does, too shy to admit in public 😂
My ear went to Randy R's tap solo at end of fl ' n high agn. Instead of tap'n , I picked the the G on the B strg & ham 'rd on/off the B to D on the E . on so on. then tried reversing the pattern like in the exercise. Hope this makes sense Ben? Cmaj 7 to Gmaj7 ? was kinda cool sounding...
This is great for hand fingers. But what about my various axillary fingers?
How many wah pedal push ups can you do?
Hey Ben, thanks for taking it easy on Kirk. Making fun of him has become fashionable for some reason. He's just a goofy, nice guy who still has a nerdy enthusiasm about playing guitar. I don't know how anyone can watch that Beatto interview and hate the guy. And for all the criticism of his solos (overused pentatonics, wah), what does every guitarist want? To develop a signature, instantly recognizable style. For better or worse, when you hear a Kirk Hammett solo, you know it right away.
Agreed 100%!!! Thanks man!
Twins. Just bought that same color and model. First Jackson. How do you like it? The Petrucci book is amazing. Overwhelming amount of great practice ideas.
epic vid as always !
Can you please do ‘Ooh Baby’ by Cryer please 😢🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Ben I have a problem , when I’m playing a run for example that ends on a downstroke and goes to the string above on a upstroke(inside picking) I can play it slow and it is fine but as soon as I speed it up my hand jumps over it and hits another downstroke. It’s very strange as I’m a downwards pick slanter but I’m trying upwards pick slanting to get the hang of this lick. Do u have any ideas?
I’ve got a workout planned for next month that’s perfect. Stay tuned!
Man , thank you so much your the best
Goosebumps throwback
Feels more like a wrist rotation exercise.
Hammett is one of my biggest influences he has so many great guitar parts solos leads and not to mention rhythm player. Slash Izzy hetfeild Hammett.
Good stuff!🤘
Economy picked version sounds like a Mastodon riff.
This also could easily become Death Metal licks ❤
While Kirk’s modern solos with Metallica don’t sound nearly as interesting to me, he definitely has some of the most memorable and inspiring in his yesteryear repertoire that I’ll always enjoy listening to.
Steve Vai uses something similar to this across 3 strings in the Attitude Song solo. As for Kirk, I generally like his playing. I do think he over-uses the wah and I think his solos on the last couple of albums were somewhat lacking. That being said, his stuff in the 80s into the 90s was fantastic. Not the most technically demanding, but still fiery and inventive. He's always had a humble and goofy demeanor, which I've always liked. I've heard it said several times about how he has never claimed to be the God of Guitar or anything that egotistical. Also, not too many people mention the fact that he can keep up with Hetfield live. I've noticed that he even downpicks some of the stuff that Hetfield has started to alternate pick.
No one knew this??? My high school guitar teacher taught me this!
I'm afraid to learn Frank Gambale like 'economy picking'. I think it will mess up my standard alternate picking..
Ben you’re hilarious. I noticed the dinosaurs- are you familiar with Mary Sweitzer’s famous work?
Marvellous🤘
Off topic, just like me to do, but that fretboard is too dope
Streaky ebony! It’s hard to believe that they used to literally leave this stuff on the forest floor cause it wasn’t uniformly colored. Beautiful.
@@BenEller Also seen the Taylor video about this? I was floored when he talked about that.
@@PelleKuipers I’ll have to check it out!
@@BenEller Ahh the first world luxuries we used to not care about
Seemed like Kirk was doing his quite a bit faster with Rick Beato.
Well yeah, but this is a lesson! I want everyone to see and hear it clearly.
That sounded more like a Frank Zappa stuff.
When I'm low on cash, I go with economy picking.
🥁 🥁 🥁
7 seconds before the first wah joke FYI
Played clean those chords sound like Mr. Bungle.
Hahaha it really does
I have that book.
Only problem is it does nothin' for my foot fingers
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