You can clearly tell that he doesn't have to be afraid to give away his secrets since his ultimate secret is all the time and energy he has spent getting that good.
There are a few out there, but Cory Wong is in a special category. Yes, he's a talented musician and producer, but if you dig through is videos, he's also just a really humble and decent human being. Cory does art for the sake of art and we all respond to it because of his earnest approach to his craft. There are a ton of pro players out there who don't offer their wisdom freely, and that's ok, but I can't help but think that the reason some guitarists are against this open approach is because either they want to be paid for sharing the knowledge or they want to keep "the screts" to themselves. Cory has stated on many occasions that he likes sharing his knowledge with others because if it helps others, we all get better because of it. If Cory inspires one musician who then goes on to do something new, we all benefit from that. It does not take anything away from Cory and he (and the rest of us) may benefit from that inspiration.
The ease with which he can displace those accents, just as a warm up, REALLY speaks to his internal clock and how good he is at just naturally keeping time. Really impressive stuff
He became a “natural” by doing a LOT of practice... I’m only watching the warm up and I’m sweating 😅 It takes dedication to go through that in full everytime
For what it is worth, I am sure it was hard on the ol' musical ego to be a quality guitar player like you are, and then being willing to suffer and suck at a new warm up for an audience. THANK YOU for that. It makes mid-level players like me not feel like I suck for my gaps in new styles. Learning and being mediocre again is part of growing versus staying comfortable.
That's the Dunning-Kruger effect. Generally, the better you get/more deeply you understand something, the more you realize your deficiencies and how much further you have to go.
@@wookyoftheyear Isn't that the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger Effect? According to this article, the person OVER estimates their abilities. (I had never heard of that effect, so I looked it up. However, I think more should be like you described. It's certainly the way I feel playing guitar or doing tai chi. Like the Kate Bush song, "Sat In Your Lap".) www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2017/01/24/the-dunning-kruger-effect-shows-why-some-people-think-theyre-great-even-when-their-work-is-terrible/#6f0d318b5d7c
There's something to be said about not taking his exercises at the speed that he's doing them. Start slow and work your way up, cause if you can't do it slow then you'll just be stumbling your way through higher speeds. Also, fun to see how he approaches the guitar almost like a drummer
Suggestion--start by practicing so slowly that you're much less likely to make mistakes. The host here jumps right into quicker tempos and naturally stumbles--that's practicing mistakes. Start painfully slow and then gradually bring to target tempo.
When I first discovered Cory, I immediately felt connected with his style.. I marched multiple DCI seasons on quads, one indoor season, along with the usual HS marching band stuff. I had no idea what it was doing for me at the time, but my sense of "the grid" is nearly perfect (patting my own back here) so I was able to immediately relate with how he perceives time. Super awesome
Nick Charles lmao do not confuse this poor man, he'll get to that later. Also @Travis Tucker it really helped me to say the chord tones to each key out loud as I played them. So I'd say C as I played C, then E as I played E, etc so that I could find the chord tones easier and also that way I'm thinking in notes instead of shapes or positions. That helped a lot, I wish you luck!
@@connorclose3084 This is GREAT advice, and I'm sure it covers about four ways (at least) of learning. Another thing that I found to be tremendously helpful is to print out some blank fretboards and draw out whatever it is you're trying to learn. I use highlighters and make the Root note a different color than the rest, etc., and it works very well. I used to coach hs basketball and I realized how well I knew the plays because I was the one who wrote them out in the playbook. Once I started making my players do the same, everyone knew the plays inside and out. With guitar, whether it be Octave shapes, Triads, Scales - or in this case, Arpeggios - it has sped up my learning so much to write them out and say them as I play. I just started playing about 3 months ago and the TWO THINGS that I feel helped me the most are: Verbalizing the notes as I play them; and Drawing out the patterns of whatever I'm trying to learn. It takes longer initially (I guess?), but after about 30 minutes of drawing the pattern out, then saying the notes as you play, it sticks. Everyone is looking for some trick or fast method to learn the fretboard, patterns, chord shapes, 7th arpeggios, etc., when the "trick" and "shortcut" is to sit down and learn it. Don't skip steps! Great advice, again. Sorry for the ramble...wake and bake Sunday morn'!
Stand-UPJus-10 Haha, you never have to apologize for a friendly guitar based ramble! Thats also a great idea, that'll help you learn the relationships and intervals between the strings and everything! I've been playing for almost 4 years, and you probably have a better knowledge of the fretboard than me, I wish I had the foresight/commitment to start learning the entire neck as I learned how to play. That's okay though, I just recently started taking stuff much more seriously and my goodness guitar is so much fun!!
Cory Wong is a master. Saw him live last year without knowing a ton about him and was blown away. I think Joe is a great player, but to see him struggle a little to do what Cory does effortlessly shows that Cory is on another level compared to other excellent guitarists.
This is spectacular and generous. I also want to shout out our man for documenting and sharing his experience with these exercises. His progress through the week inspires me to tackle these new exercises
very common between good guitarists , i found most of them dont want their practice to sound boring otherwise they probably wont enjoy it , and you are what u eat
Some minds are just wired differently - hence how they express their playing differently. I had teachers show me these exercises but Cory's focus and joy when working through them was an eye opener and infectious. It is not work for him.
@@ad-xf8bb It's not 'work' when you love something so much you'd do it for free.That he's able to make a life with it is a bonus. But he'd play regardless.
I love hearing Cory talk through these exercise. They’re all things I did when I played clarinet or things I heard from advanced classical musicians. Just goes to show that having control over your motions is valuable on every instrument
"A lot of time, people's timing gets messed up when they start doing the up stroke" - I think this must be the first time that playing ska punk for years has ever come in handy for my technique.
I think this is one of the better videos I've seen from Joe. Really impressed with Cory and the thought he has put into some legit practice. I will look for more of his stuff.
What a killer way to learn this - I mean most of us know or at least "hear" this (even when we think we don't yet b/c it is so musically intuitive), but wow, this is teaching with some clarity - and this is one of the most purposeful concepts I have ever learned. This is a whole body experience! Thank you both. I'll be happy to make it to just Joe Day 4. Btw, it helped to see a great guitarist, like Joe, have to stop, learn and practice. Very comforting for the rest of us -- and so inspiring.
Some days I only have the time and/or energy to make it through my warmup. This is going make those times more effective at maintaining my chops and keeping everything musical. Thank you Corey and Joe for doing this video!
The first two exercises are literally straight out of classical practices. As a cellist I've done my fair share of these. But also with larger ensembles, you'll hear individuals do this before rehearsals and concerts. Especially horns and woodwinds do this a lot. Would recommend people who's interested in these types of exercises to check out etudes for violin and so forth ;)) you'd be lucky not to worry about bow technique, but as classical string instruments are tuned in fifths and not fourths, it'll be a different type of challenge and exercise :)) either way most of these types of exercises are meant to implement the different scales and neck positioning without feeling like a boring scale exercise.
@@Oron354 This exercise is helping me to finally learn the neck. I had memorised the scales in each position (muscle memory) but this links the different places going up and down the neck. Also, it's helping me learn the names of the notes. Finally, I am learning what the different intervals look like: minor major 3, changing strings first, then going up on one string...which I had learned all this 50 years ago when I started instead of "just" playing songs, and lead, would have made a huge difference! My advice to young players is: do this sort of thing ASAP so it can all gel in different wonderful ways.
Amazing! This is the hard work that no one sees, this is how when you watch a master player, they make it look easy! LOL Big thumbs up to you Joe for letting us see you out of your comfort zone :)
Thanks for making this video man. I'm a bass player and still watched all the way through. Pretty cool to see you push your boundaries like that. Dude is insane on guitar. That dean town in Madison Square garden was the shit.
If you liked this you should check out Adam Neely's 5 hours major scale practice. I never watch it the whole way through in one sitting but he does a ton of similar exercises like this in all 12 keys.
@@alar2266 You might not want to spend too much time on the tabs for this as it kind of defeats the purpose. If you reduce the notes to just tabs you aren't really learning the fretboard./harmony.
Joe, thank you for showing us your progress. You are a very good guitar player and is encouraging to see you work through someone else's techniques/excercises. It is helpful for us that can sometimes get discouraged from practicing a technique that is challenging. Cheers!
A variation of the arpeggios warmups that I like to do is to take the keys from the band Setlist songs and also do the same 123 and 234 fingers note approaches to the scales I use in the songs example would be Watchtower that we do in Am- so the C major and Am arpeggios and the the Am pentatonic and A Dorian scales (and whatever other scales/notes I might play) finally I will try to improvise over the actual songs trying to use the warmup material
This really helped me - thanks. I suggest watching it at half speed. It's like getting a lesson from a guy who's had 3 martinis, but this guy's so good, I can only follow if he's that "drunk."
I'm a total shredder-No doubts, it's all about the solos for me ( haha ). BUT, Cory is an AMAZING and undisputed rhythm groove master. And his podcasts are stellar. Cory made me LOVE the sound of dominant chords set to a funk style groove. Totally LOVE the guy.
Great exercise for bass too! I havent really done something like this before so its a little tricky. I had to kind of change it a but for a 4 string bass but this is really useful! Thanks Cory
arghh, I suck at this so much. I had to slow the metronome down to 70 to hit the "and" and "a"'s, 120 for the "one"s 100 for the "e"s, I won't even tell you how long it took to peck out the arpeggios. I'm doing this every day for the month of August and will let you know if I improve.
@@extratroppo437 Yes! Over a month or so I got to the point that I could do all the rhythm exercises at 130-135bpm. I could find all the arpeggio pretty quickly (still have problems remembering the circle of 5ths without a chart though). Alas, I stopped doing them. I really should start again.
Great video! Some of the things he talks about really gets you thinking about those subtleties in playing. One that stuck with me was about when and where he places the accents.
I printed some tab paper and split each row in two. On the left, three octaves C major arp. On the right, three octaves Am arpeggio. I continued this following the circle of fifths backwards. (Circle of fourths?). I notice that Cory starts his C arp on the fifth string. This will be my goal, but I think the most efficient way for my simple mind to get this is starting at the 8th fret of the E string. This way each string pair repeats the same shape. And the pattern is movable. For Am arp, I started at the 5th fret on the 6th string for the same reason. This leaves a few exceptions. E, Em, and Fm invert the fingering. For example, two notes on the E string, one note on the A string. This has to be done to accommodate the G#. And in similar fashion occurs for Em and Fm. I will be practicing this on acoustic (because that’s what I have). I love it. Someday I hope to get a pro2 telecaster. Thanks to Cory and Reverb for this awesome exercise and I hope more artists share their warmups too.
so very cool and logical... JOE! amazing review etc... your a fantastic guitar player and reviewer of "guitar goods" .... and even so, seeing you struggle at and, documenting the struggle was so cool to watch... agreeing with Cory: all exercises should have some sort of musicality to them verses fingering technical "do it this way" attitude ... its all about phrasing and these types of exercised hone those skills... musicality not painting by the numbers mindlessly... most important: silence is just as important as sound and crucial, technically: what ever your playing scale chord etc figure out how to do it on other strings and eventually this mysterious 6 string beast tuned in EADGBE will make sense... and music will happen. left hand muting way over looked but again very crucial.... displacing accents then versions of this mixed in a 4 bar phase ... again very musical not just mindless noice but with a very defined "Musical" idea! ... so cool to see all this not only described but displayed.
Cory.. if you read this.. your tips made me better and I have to believe you have helped gobs of people get better besides me. I love the methodical approach. Great practice tips. Great ways to mentally frame and visualize what we are trying to accomplish as we play... AND STRETCHING! Thanks so much for the great content Reverb!
The arpeggio exercises really shocked me when I started doing it. I had to stop thinking about patterns and more about notes. Every time I get and try to fudge in a pattern I’ll miss a note. It really forces you to think of keys and triads.
Did you also have an issue with figuring out how to pick them? Which to play on an upstroke vs downstroke as you navigate the fretboard. And it sounds like he's doing some slides in there. Which finger to slide with. So many details.
Very cool, thanks for sharing it. Cory is a rhythm machine, it's awesome to see how he is constantly moving while doing these exercises... internal metronome is always firing!
There's an old video of Guthrie Govan where he explains his funky playing and also presents that same exercise with switching accents. It's pretty cool stuff
Are there any tab cheat sheets for these exercises? I guess I need to click the link. Maybe it’s answered. Cheers- looks like a great exercise and not tediously impossible. It leads to grooviness!
I think that the arpeggio exercises are built out in a way that you shouldn't use tabs, because if you don't it will really push you to learn all the notes on the neck, all the notes in every major/minor arpeggio/chord etc. You will get so much out of it that way :-)
You shift the C major and A minor fingerings depending on the scale. C Maj arpeggio he's playing is: 5th: 3 4th: 2 4th: 5 4th: 10 3rd: 9 2nd: 8 2nd: 13 1st: 12 1st: 15 A Min arpeggio is: 6th: 5 6th: 8 5th: 7 5th: 12 4th: 10 3rd: 9 2nd: 10 1st: 8 1st: 12
I kind of dont get his arpeggio warm up at least in the way he explains it. For example he is changing positions a lot but you could do an A minor arpeggio and cover 3 octaves of A in just one position - starting with the A on the 5th fret E string. Maybe the dude at reverb can clarify the strategy there...
Damn, this is a funky warmup. Going to try and incorporate this. I’ve historically used my metal and rock heroes’ warmups I’ve picked up over the years, it’ll be cool to mix this more harmonic and funky ness into my playing
The progression for the first exercise is in 4ths,not 5ths. Its important for any beginners watching this to know that f is not the 5th of c, Bb is not the 5th of f etc,or you will be very confused as you learn more theory.
Man, you don’t see many guitar heroes just offering up wisdom like this. He’s clearly mastered his craft
Yes you do, there are thousands of educational guitar and music theory videos
You can clearly tell that he doesn't have to be afraid to give away his secrets since his ultimate secret is all the time and energy he has spent getting that good.
@jc lol I think it's a safe sign that you've made it when people comment stuff like this on your videos.
@@mangolassi_. Lol and not even his video, this guy has wandered to a derivative video of Cory just to talk smack. Wong 2024.
There are a few out there, but Cory Wong is in a special category. Yes, he's a talented musician and producer, but if you dig through is videos, he's also just a really humble and decent human being. Cory does art for the sake of art and we all respond to it because of his earnest approach to his craft. There are a ton of pro players out there who don't offer their wisdom freely, and that's ok, but I can't help but think that the reason some guitarists are against this open approach is because either they want to be paid for sharing the knowledge or they want to keep "the screts" to themselves. Cory has stated on many occasions that he likes sharing his knowledge with others because if it helps others, we all get better because of it. If Cory inspires one musician who then goes on to do something new, we all benefit from that. It does not take anything away from Cory and he (and the rest of us) may benefit from that inspiration.
C Maj arpeggio he's playing is:
5th: 3
4th: 2
4th: 5
4th: 10
3rd: 9
2nd: 8
2nd: 13
1st: 12
1st: 15
A Min arpeggio is:
6th: 5
6th: 8
5th: 7
5th: 12
4th: 10
3rd: 9
2nd: 10
1st: 8
1st: 12
Mr Tupins thanks dude
Awesome
You da best
HUGE thanks
How can I do the f one:( or where can I find every one t.t
The ease with which he can displace those accents, just as a warm up, REALLY speaks to his internal clock and how good he is at just naturally keeping time. Really impressive stuff
Ya, that's the trickiest exercise out of all of these for me.
Just shows what practice can do for everyone
I got the opposite impression . . . that his skills are the result of persistence and hard work, and even as good as he is, he never stops practicing.
He became a “natural” by doing a LOT of practice... I’m only watching the warm up and I’m sweating 😅 It takes dedication to go through that in full everytime
for me the trickiest part is transitioning from the a accents to the number accents
For what it is worth, I am sure it was hard on the ol' musical ego to be a quality guitar player like you are, and then being willing to suffer and suck at a new warm up for an audience. THANK YOU for that. It makes mid-level players like me not feel like I suck for my gaps in new styles. Learning and being mediocre again is part of growing versus staying comfortable.
You have to be careful with the circle of fifths one. I've been doing it for an hour and never got back to the start
So it's a line of fifths really
@@jetaimemina its like time: a fat circle
Lmao my guy just found out the circle of fifths hits all 12 notes before returning
Broo haha I've been trying to practice cricle of fifths exercises my whole life but I've yet reach the start
Cory has an amazing natural radio voice
The better I get at guitar, the more I realise my rythym sucks
That's the Dunning-Kruger effect. Generally, the better you get/more deeply you understand something, the more you realize your deficiencies and how much further you have to go.
@@wookyoftheyear Isn't that the opposite of the Dunning-Kruger Effect? According to this article, the person OVER estimates their abilities. (I had never heard of that effect, so I looked it up. However, I think more should be like you described. It's certainly the way I feel playing guitar or doing tai chi. Like the Kate Bush song, "Sat In Your Lap".) www.forbes.com/sites/markmurphy/2017/01/24/the-dunning-kruger-effect-shows-why-some-people-think-theyre-great-even-when-their-work-is-terrible/#6f0d318b5d7c
It doesn’t just playing guitar can ruin it so I feel like it’s important for all of us to stay on top of it
metronome is the greatest thing ever
thats what will get u smooth n fillin in the blanks
There's something to be said about not taking his exercises at the speed that he's doing them. Start slow and work your way up, cause if you can't do it slow then you'll just be stumbling your way through higher speeds. Also, fun to see how he approaches the guitar almost like a drummer
Suggestion--start by practicing so slowly that you're much less likely to make mistakes. The host here jumps right into quicker tempos and naturally stumbles--that's practicing mistakes. Start painfully slow and then gradually bring to target tempo.
I like that he has joe's signature bass and 2 of the exact same guitar
I..
Don't think that's the Joe Dart MusicMan. Looks like a Fender Jazz. Are you seeing something I'm not?
Never mind, I see it. Kind of hidden by his head.
The other strat has mini humbuckers instead.
Oh wait I guess it used to have them. You can see that config on the Dean Town music video.
Look at the guitar rack in the back, I think he has 3
This was gold. Feel like I got a free Cory Wong masterclass. Thank you, Reverb, for the content!
Definitely drum line stuff with that accent grid exercise!
True. Like working the syncopation book on guitar.
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Andrew Holifield nice! I go to DCI West at RCC every summer (except this year unfortunately).
always super cool seeing these two worlds of music colliding in one way or another
When I first discovered Cory, I immediately felt connected with his style.. I marched multiple DCI seasons on quads, one indoor season, along with the usual HS marching band stuff. I had no idea what it was doing for me at the time, but my sense of "the grid" is nearly perfect (patting my own back here) so I was able to immediately relate with how he perceives time. Super awesome
Soooooo I spent 30 minutes just trying to arpeggiate the C Major scale......this is gonna need more than a week.
Technically, If you wanted to arpeggiate the C Major Scale you would play, in order: CMaj, Dmin, Emin, FMaj, GMaj, Amin, Bdim.
Nick Charles lmao do not confuse this poor man, he'll get to that later. Also @Travis Tucker it really helped me to say the chord tones to each key out loud as I played them. So I'd say C as I played C, then E as I played E, etc so that I could find the chord tones easier and also that way I'm thinking in notes instead of shapes or positions. That helped a lot, I wish you luck!
@@connorclose3084 This is GREAT advice, and I'm sure it covers about four ways (at least) of learning. Another thing that I found to be tremendously helpful is to print out some blank fretboards and draw out whatever it is you're trying to learn. I use highlighters and make the Root note a different color than the rest, etc., and it works very well. I used to coach hs basketball and I realized how well I knew the plays because I was the one who wrote them out in the playbook. Once I started making my players do the same, everyone knew the plays inside and out. With guitar, whether it be Octave shapes, Triads, Scales - or in this case, Arpeggios - it has sped up my learning so much to write them out and say them as I play. I just started playing about 3 months ago and the TWO THINGS that I feel helped me the most are: Verbalizing the notes as I play them; and Drawing out the patterns of whatever I'm trying to learn. It takes longer initially (I guess?), but after about 30 minutes of drawing the pattern out, then saying the notes as you play, it sticks. Everyone is looking for some trick or fast method to learn the fretboard, patterns, chord shapes, 7th arpeggios, etc., when the "trick" and "shortcut" is to sit down and learn it. Don't skip steps! Great advice, again. Sorry for the ramble...wake and bake Sunday morn'!
Stand-UPJus-10 Haha, you never have to apologize for a friendly guitar based ramble! Thats also a great idea, that'll help you learn the relationships and intervals between the strings and everything! I've been playing for almost 4 years, and you probably have a better knowledge of the fretboard than me, I wish I had the foresight/commitment to start learning the entire neck as I learned how to play. That's okay though, I just recently started taking stuff much more seriously and my goodness guitar is so much fun!!
aren't arpeggios the first among things you learn? in piano it's a fundamental, you can't play well if you don't know arpeggios
Cory Wong is a master. Saw him live last year without knowing a ton about him and was blown away. I think Joe is a great player, but to see him struggle a little to do what Cory does effortlessly shows that Cory is on another level compared to other excellent guitarists.
THE best guitar instructional vid on YT. Period.
Even if Joe practiced more and started playing exactly like Cory, two wongs don’t make a right.
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Lol...
Oh no...
Dad....?
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This is spectacular and generous. I also want to shout out our man for documenting and sharing his experience with these exercises. His progress through the week inspires me to tackle these new exercises
When you’ve found that his warmup routines have more musicality than your music...
Ouch!
very common between good guitarists , i found most of them dont want their practice to sound boring otherwise they probably wont enjoy it , and you are what u eat
Some minds are just wired differently - hence how they express their playing differently. I had teachers show me these exercises but Cory's focus and joy when working through them was an eye opener and infectious. It is not work for him.
I mean, it is work for him. He's a musician. This is his work.
@@ad-xf8bb It's not 'work' when you love something so much you'd do it for free.That he's able to make a life with it is a bonus. But he'd play regardless.
The approach here with CW is the same as with all great teachers, in any subject energize the material!
I love hearing Cory talk through these exercise. They’re all things I did when I played clarinet or things I heard from advanced classical musicians. Just goes to show that having control over your motions is valuable on every instrument
If you get the major/minor arpeggios down you can do maj7th, 7th, and m7th arpeggios too
"A lot of time, people's timing gets messed up when they start doing the up stroke" - I think this must be the first time that playing ska punk for years has ever come in handy for my technique.
I think this is one of the better videos I've seen from Joe. Really impressed with Cory and the thought he has put into some legit practice. I will look for more of his stuff.
The arpeggio one is one hell of an exercise for learning the fretboard, I actually kinda needed it
Been doing the displaced accent exercise on bass for months now, huuugely beneficial.
What a killer way to learn this - I mean most of us know or at least "hear" this (even when we think we don't yet b/c it is so musically intuitive), but wow, this is teaching with some clarity - and this is one of the most purposeful concepts I have ever learned. This is a whole body experience! Thank you both. I'll be happy to make it to just Joe Day 4. Btw, it helped to see a great guitarist, like Joe, have to stop, learn and practice. Very comforting for the rest of us -- and so inspiring.
Some days I only have the time and/or energy to make it through my warmup. This is going make those times more effective at maintaining my chops and keeping everything musical. Thank you Corey and Joe for doing this video!
Totally appreciate seeing that Cory's tour-ready Strat in the intro has the pickup selector ducktaped to the 2 position
"fourth position!"
That’s a great sound btw!!!
Wow. That head wound on Day 6 looked intense. Good for you to keep your practice up with a major concussion!!! Much respect, Joel.
The first two exercises are literally straight out of classical practices. As a cellist I've done my fair share of these. But also with larger ensembles, you'll hear individuals do this before rehearsals and concerts. Especially horns and woodwinds do this a lot.
Would recommend people who's interested in these types of exercises to check out etudes for violin and so forth ;)) you'd be lucky not to worry about bow technique, but as classical string instruments are tuned in fifths and not fourths, it'll be a different type of challenge and exercise :)) either way most of these types of exercises are meant to implement the different scales and neck positioning without feeling like a boring scale exercise.
Guitar is tuned in 4ths
But 2nd string is tuned in 3rds😬😬
@@Oron354 This exercise is helping me to finally learn the neck. I had memorised the scales in each position
(muscle memory) but this links the different places going up and down the neck. Also, it's helping me learn the names of the notes. Finally, I am learning what the different intervals look like: minor major 3, changing strings first, then going up on one string...which I had learned all this 50 years ago when I started instead of "just" playing songs, and lead, would have made a huge difference! My advice to young players is: do this sort of thing ASAP so it can all gel in different wonderful ways.
My finger exercise were playing final fantasy prelude, sometimes in minor
Joe Pass said learn a song then learn it in all 12 keys. Great lesson- thank you!
damn. word
Amazing! This is the hard work that no one sees, this is how when you watch a master player, they make it look easy! LOL Big thumbs up to you Joe for letting us see you out of your comfort zone :)
When your first warm up sped up sounds like a classical piece of music you know you did it.
Joe's lessons are always great. And Cory is a class act. Will be trying some of these. Thank you both!
Thanks for making this video man. I'm a bass player and still watched all the way through. Pretty cool to see you push your boundaries like that. Dude is insane on guitar. That dean town in Madison Square garden was the shit.
If you liked this you should check out Adam Neely's 5 hours major scale practice. I never watch it the whole way through in one sitting but he does a ton of similar exercises like this in all 12 keys.
The last one, shifting the accent is a great one - thanks a lot for sharing that, very valuable.
If you are going counter clockwise around the circle it is called the circle of fourths.
C-F is a fourth F to Bb is a fourth..
Cory Wong's warm-up routine lasts longer than I generally practice for... This is why I suck.
I started trying to tab it out so I had a visual cue, I'm like half through the first exercise after an hour. This is a hell of a lot of notes.
Same here, I feel ya
@@alar2266 You might not want to spend too much time on the tabs for this as it kind of defeats the purpose. If you reduce the notes to just tabs you aren't really learning the fretboard./harmony.
Or, you could say, it’s why he’s great.
@@drothberg3 Ha, okay I'll take that.
Joe, thank you for showing us your progress. You are a very good guitar player and is encouraging to see you work through someone else's techniques/excercises. It is helpful for us that can sometimes get discouraged from practicing a technique that is challenging. Cheers!
This is absolutely genius guitar practice. And the guy is JUST WARMING UP!!!!!!
A variation of the arpeggios warmups that I like to do is to take the keys from the band Setlist songs and also do the same 123 and 234 fingers note approaches to the scales I use in the songs example would be Watchtower that we do in Am- so the C major and Am arpeggios and the the Am pentatonic and A Dorian scales (and whatever other scales/notes I might play) finally I will try to improvise over the actual songs trying to use the warmup material
This really helped me - thanks. I suggest watching it at half speed. It's like getting a lesson from a guy who's had 3 martinis, but this guy's so good, I can only follow if he's that "drunk."
I'm a total shredder-No doubts, it's all about the solos for me ( haha ). BUT, Cory is an AMAZING and undisputed rhythm groove master. And his podcasts are stellar. Cory made me LOVE the sound of dominant chords set to a funk style groove. Totally LOVE the guy.
That arpeggio warm up is quite reminiscent of Final Fantasy
Great exercise for bass too! I havent really done something like this before so its a little tricky. I had to kind of change it a but for a 4 string bass but this is really useful! Thanks Cory
arghh, I suck at this so much. I had to slow the metronome down to 70 to hit the "and" and "a"'s, 120 for the "one"s 100 for the "e"s, I won't even tell you how long it took to peck out the arpeggios. I'm doing this every day for the month of August and will let you know if I improve.
Did you improve?!?
@@extratroppo437 Yes! Over a month or so I got to the point that I could do all the rhythm exercises at 130-135bpm. I could find all the arpeggio pretty quickly (still have problems remembering the circle of 5ths without a chart though).
Alas, I stopped doing them. I really should start again.
Great video! Some of the things he talks about really gets you thinking about those subtleties in playing. One that stuck with me was about when and where he places the accents.
I printed some tab paper and split each row in two. On the left, three octaves C major arp. On the right, three octaves Am arpeggio. I continued this following the circle of fifths backwards. (Circle of fourths?). I notice that Cory starts his C arp on the fifth string. This will be my goal, but I think the most efficient way for my simple mind to get this is starting at the 8th fret of the E string. This way each string pair repeats the same shape. And the pattern is movable. For Am arp, I started at the 5th fret on the 6th string for the same reason. This leaves a few exceptions. E, Em, and Fm invert the fingering. For example, two notes on the E string, one note on the A string. This has to be done to accommodate the G#. And in similar fashion occurs for Em and Fm. I will be practicing this on acoustic (because that’s what I have). I love it. Someday I hope to get a pro2 telecaster. Thanks to Cory and Reverb for this awesome exercise and I hope more artists share their warmups too.
Cory Wong's warm-up is the best solo I've ever heard.
Johnny Smith had a book practicing the arpeggios that way. good job 👏
so very cool and logical... JOE! amazing review etc... your a fantastic guitar player and reviewer of "guitar goods" .... and even so, seeing you struggle at and, documenting the struggle was so cool to watch... agreeing with Cory: all exercises should have some sort of musicality to them verses fingering technical "do it this way" attitude ... its all about phrasing and these types of exercised hone those skills... musicality not painting by the numbers mindlessly... most important: silence is just as important as sound and crucial, technically: what ever your playing scale chord etc figure out how to do it on other strings and eventually this mysterious 6 string beast tuned in EADGBE will make sense... and music will happen. left hand muting way over looked but again very crucial.... displacing accents then versions of this mixed in a 4 bar phase ... again very musical not just mindless noice but with a very defined "Musical" idea! ... so cool to see all this not only described but displayed.
that second exercise sounds like slipnot by The Grateful Dead!
Cory Wong is a perfect angel baby the world does not deserve.
Really cool and helpful video - thanks to Joe and Cory for putting this together. I'm excited to try these routines out, #3 seems daunting!!!
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Really fabulous series, thanks so much for making these.
Cory.. if you read this.. your tips made me better and I have to believe you have helped gobs of people get better besides me.
I love the methodical approach. Great practice tips. Great ways to mentally frame and visualize what we are trying to accomplish as we play... AND STRETCHING!
Thanks so much for the great content Reverb!
The arpeggio exercises really shocked me when I started doing it. I had to stop thinking about patterns and more about notes. Every time I get and try to fudge in a pattern I’ll miss a note. It really forces you to think of keys and triads.
Did you also have an issue with figuring out how to pick them? Which to play on an upstroke vs downstroke as you navigate the fretboard. And it sounds like he's doing some slides in there. Which finger to slide with. So many details.
Going backwards/counterclockwise in the Circle of 5ths, is Circle of 4ths....
Very cool, thanks for sharing it. Cory is a rhythm machine, it's awesome to see how he is constantly moving while doing these exercises... internal metronome is always firing!
There's an old video of Guthrie Govan where he explains his funky playing and also presents that same exercise with switching accents. It's pretty cool stuff
Joe's face @ 5:34. Love ya, brother!
Ha! Hey Pete!
great video! love u guys!
Thank you Corey and Joe!
so he plays Final Fantasy theme song for practice, nice!
Being a drummer and listening to him talk about 421 grids makes me feel like we’re friends lmao
great insight Joe! Thanks heaps, any chance to see a set of Tabs on the arpeggio warm up... even it it was just in one key C major
up the neck!
if you google "C major arpeggio" you will see a ton of pictures of exactly that
C Maj arpeggio he's playing is:
5th: 3
4th: 2
4th: 5
4th: 10
3rd: 9
2nd: 8
2nd: 13
1st: 12
1st: 15
A Min arpeggio is:
6th: 5
6th: 8
5th: 7
5th: 12
4th: 10
3rd: 9
2nd: 10
1st: 8
1st: 12
jesus no wonder hes so good
Are there any tab cheat sheets for these exercises? I guess I need to click the link. Maybe it’s answered. Cheers- looks like a great exercise and not tediously impossible. It leads to grooviness!
I think that the arpeggio exercises are built out in a way that you shouldn't use tabs, because if you don't it will really push you to learn all the notes on the neck, all the notes in every major/minor arpeggio/chord etc. You will get so much out of it that way :-)
@@PetterKarlsten I agree dude
You shift the C major and A minor fingerings depending on the scale.
C Maj arpeggio he's playing is:
5th: 3
4th: 2
4th: 5
4th: 10
3rd: 9
2nd: 8
2nd: 13
1st: 12
1st: 15
A Min arpeggio is:
6th: 5
6th: 8
5th: 7
5th: 12
4th: 10
3rd: 9
2nd: 10
1st: 8
1st: 12
I kind of dont get his arpeggio warm up at least in the way he explains it. For example he is changing positions a lot but you could do an A minor arpeggio and cover 3 octaves of A in just one position - starting with the A on the 5th fret E string. Maybe the dude at reverb can clarify the strategy there...
thanks mannnn! just found your video! really, thanks a lot for sharing that precious info! saludos desde Chile!
Amazing warm up tips! Thanks heaps Joe and thanks to the great Cory Wong!!!
im on day three of doing these! Thank you so much for this video
this is not warmups... this is much more than that... thanks for showing us this video
Best music lesson I've ever had lol
Arpeggios are the best warm-ups for me and yes..use a metronome!!!
can you do Joe Darts practice routine next?
3:26 that actually sounded dope!
THIS VIDEO IS NATIONAL GUITAR TREASURE. Merci Cory !
i'm so inspired right now holy frick
Damn, this is a funky warmup. Going to try and incorporate this. I’ve historically used my metal and rock heroes’ warmups I’ve picked up over the years, it’ll be cool to mix this more harmonic and funky ness into my playing
Great video and instruction! Thanks guys!
This was awesome to watch and learn from! Thank you for sharing!!
That was absolutely awesome 😊 thank you so much
His playing has increased 1.5% from 3.5%. He is now a total of 5% gooder.
What kind of bass is that on Cory's wall with one knob on it? You can see it at the frame of 6:31.
That looks like the Joe Dart custom bass.
Joe we need a “what’s on my board” episode!
Sounds awesome, thanks for sharing!
Any TABS available for moving through the Minor and Major arpeggios please?
hơw could i find the tab for this warrm up routine! Thanks alott!
This looks super helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Dude is funky as hell and clean and precise, i see why, he's got a great system of practice.
The progression for the first exercise is in 4ths,not 5ths. Its important for any beginners watching this to know that f is not the 5th of c, Bb is not the 5th of f etc,or you will be very confused as you learn more theory.
This is so dope. Thanks for this!
Ayyy, this was really cool. Maybe have some more warm up interviews?
"I have no idea whats going on" - Towely
Really good techniques to practice through here.
Cory is a national treasure
THIS IS GOLD