Sometimes you think you have found the perfect RUclips Chanel for Guitar lessons and technique and then you stumble upon The-Art-of-Guitar and are blown away. His demeanor and voice make what he is showing and teaching you seem possible for me as I am still a beginner. Have watched 5 today. Thank you for putting up such great content.
Can you put the TAB bar little higher when you edit the video next time? The YT red bar covers the low E when I stop the video. That might be helpful for more viewers. Thanks Btw thanks for awesome tips :D Ive learn a lot from to you.
I was just about to say the same thing. I had to go to ultimateguitar.com to get it. YT banner/logo? blocked the tab when I paused :)lol. Good concept though, instead of just playing boring finger exercises.
the 6 levels of shirts you wear: level 1: Fireball Whiskey level 2: Led Zeppelin level 3: San Junipero 1987 level 4: Red Hot Chili Peppers level 5: that white and black shirt with the black hand on it level 6: this shirt, that doesn't have an in-between button, but probably should, because yeah it says "i just hit on your girl at the club"
Powermad was such a great and underrated band and "Nice Dreams" is one of my favorite metal songs of all-time. Saw them open for Overkill at the 9:30 club in D.C. back in the day.
Papa Roach - Last Resort has a riff that is a decent warm up as well. The Trooper - Iron Maiden intro riff is fantastic for a quick, simple legato warm up Master Of Puppets - Metallica, the single notes riff is a decent warm up as well Rainmaker - Iron Maiden intro riff is also a good warm up
Wow this is so convenient, today i have to play outside (its winter here) and i really have a hard time when trying to warmup, great videos as always!!
Excellent video. It's been long time i was searching this kind of exercice for stretching my fingers and getting more agility. Thanx a lot. Keep on going like that
I love your videos so much. They really help me better develop my guitar skills and when I watch them it just makes me wanna pick up my guitar and play. Thank you!
I've been using the bluesy scale from "Jump in the Fire" as a wamup for a while now but haven't seen anyone on YT apply yet! it looks really challenging especially (as you mentioned) using alternate picking and palm muting together which is a really coordinated and difficult action. Your videos are amazing, fun and educating as always Mike! keep it up
Shirt aside, this video is ingenious... I've seen similar ideas on YT before but this is far and away the best I've watched. Ten highly useful finger exercises in the can, along with ten great new riffs to jam on. So twenty new items for your guitar toolbox in just over ten mins. Wonderful stuff indeed.
Mike, this is great. There are a number of things to take from this. Interesting exercise and ideas to take these riffs and repurpose them. Thank you so much for your great work. How rewarding it must be to know you are helping people be better musicians and get more joy out of their playing. So grateful...
Great vid. I also like to use two riffs from The Devil's Orchard by Opeth. The first is the part right before the vocals kick in and the other is the diminished triplet riff underneath the held vocal notes in the main verses.
Hey'as ... Just wanted to drop you a kudos, out of all the music instructors you are one of my faves, very clear and straight forward. Keep up the AWESOME work Bro !!!
there's also some RHCP songs that i like to use as a warm up: - Can't stop - Whatchu Thinkin (the main bass riff, the guitar plays it on the middle of the song too) - Soul to squeeze - Under the bridge - Dark necessities (the solo) - Snow (But I can't play at full speed yet)
Great lesson I use the crazy on you riff from Heart as a warm up for anyone who isn’t into all the Heavy metal lol Love the Pretty woman and crazy train ones too ! Thanks and Rock on ....🎸💃
Crazy Train riff (the way you play it) has been my warm-up exercise ever since I learned it on my acoustic. I did not have an electric but I still wanted to learn rock and metal. Now that I play an electric, it still remains as one of my most effective warm-up exercises because not only does it involves almost all fingers working but muting to make it sound cleaner. I start slow and then I keeps speeding it up. Great and effective content as always. Cheers!
i just started learning and wanted to say that your videos are helping me sooo much!! i’m now aware of many things i probably wouldn’t be if it weren’t these videos. thank you!!
I think, that a really good warmup is intro riff from "Constant Motion" by Dream Theater. It can be played with all 4 fingers, it can be played with downstrokes only or alternate picking, and it can be played in a loop. :)
Mike love your videos. I really am going to try hard to learn guitar this year. I've been on again and off again for about 7 years due to health problems. I really hope I can learn. I've always loved guitar and you really inspire me to continue.
I think you came upon a great way to warm up while using riffs that most guitar players would know. Hey people learn to give credit when it's due. Keep on Rockin'
I hope you're talking about the riff after the solo, right? I dont think anyone on earth can downpick the bridge riff with the fast open e strings. As far as I know
All you are missing is a soul patch and some indoor sunglasses. Jokes aside, I love your videos dude and you have been such a great help for me in my journey. Keep doing what you are doing.
I remember Powermad and that song Nice Dreams was the single off the Absolute Power album. I was impressed when I saw them live at a Lollapalooza festival in the early 90s
Such a great tutorial man thank you....the only thing about exercises like this is that there’s SO many that there’re basically endless...which is see is good and bad if you’re like me and feel like you need to do all of them...
My biggest problem with hammer-ons/pull-offs is bumping the other strings. Got any tips for avoiding that? P. S. Thank you. Your videos are a massive help.
Interesting. I've always played message in a bottle with an open "A" when hit that portion. Less hand movement. But a little difficult to hit that portion clean. Love your casual, fun, yet thorough way of teaching.
i would really like to know how i can get better at gripping the strings so the sound doesn't distort (acoustic guitar) - do you have a video for that?
1:07 - Pretty Woman
1:59 - Crazy Train
2:24 - Root
3:22 - Erotomania
4:10 - Jump In The Fire
5:34 - Ashes In Your Mouth
6:40 - Message In a Bottle
8:21 - Thunderstruck
9:17 - Nice Dreams
The citizens of Tamriel thank you
With that white and gold sg and white buttoned shirt you look like your in a Christan rock band
Faith +1
What christian rock bands do you listen to? lol
shit, someone already did the south park joke
He's praising the lord and stealing ur girl.
*Check this riff, it's f...reaking holy!*
The 6 levels of “Stealin Ya Girl”
Sometimes you think you have found the perfect RUclips Chanel for Guitar lessons and technique and then you stumble upon The-Art-of-Guitar and are blown away. His demeanor and voice make what he is showing and teaching you seem possible for me as I am still a beginner. Have watched 5 today. Thank you for putting up such great content.
One of my favorite warm ups is Hammett’s soloy part in for whom the bell tolls. It’s great to down pick or alternate, with or without palm muting.
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Thanks, Mike!, love ur videos!!
Yeah but I’ll give them back when I’m done. Haha. Well maybe not your views. 😂
Heh, lol, you can keep em! 😁
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If i can master these riffs he can have them
Can you put the TAB bar little higher when you edit the video next time? The YT red bar covers the low E when I stop the video. That might be helpful for more viewers. Thanks
Btw thanks for awesome tips :D Ive learn a lot from to you.
I was just about to say the same thing. I had to go to ultimateguitar.com to get it. YT banner/logo? blocked the tab when I paused :)lol. Good concept though, instead of just playing boring finger exercises.
the 6 levels of shirts you wear:
level 1: Fireball Whiskey
level 2: Led Zeppelin
level 3: San Junipero 1987
level 4: Red Hot Chili Peppers
level 5: that white and black shirt with the black hand on it
level 6: this shirt, that doesn't have an in-between button, but probably should, because yeah it says "i just hit on your girl at the club"
This just made my week!
Level 7 : Clif Burtons denim jacket
Rhcp and shirts are like an oxymoron
Never really thought of using actual musical riffs as warm ups. I normally just go through scales and a few chord progressions. Thanks for the vid.
Powermad was such a great and underrated band and "Nice Dreams" is one of my favorite metal songs of all-time. Saw them open for Overkill at the 9:30 club in D.C. back in the day.
I laughed out loud at the beginning when you explained your fancy shirt hahaha
Keep it coming, you're awesome :)
Some other warmup riffs I can think of are Snow (Hey Oh) from Red Het Chili Peppers and the solo from Megadeth's Sweating Bullets
Guns 'n' Roses greatest hit and signature riff was originally Slash's string skipping exercise...
Cool shirt anyway though
Papa Roach - Last Resort has a riff that is a decent warm up as well.
The Trooper - Iron Maiden intro riff is fantastic for a quick, simple legato warm up
Master Of Puppets - Metallica, the single notes riff is a decent warm up as well
Rainmaker - Iron Maiden intro riff is also a good warm up
master of downpicking if you will
Wow this is so convenient, today i have to play outside (its winter here) and i really have a hard time when trying to warmup, great videos as always!!
Those are fun exercises/ Thanks for posting!
Excellent video. It's been long time i was searching this kind of exercice for stretching my fingers and getting more agility. Thanx a lot.
Keep on going like that
I love your videos so much. They really help me better develop my guitar skills and when I watch them it just makes me wanna pick up my guitar and play. Thank you!
I do Welcome Home by King Diamond to warm up a lot. Good for using your ring and picky for hammer on and pull offs.
One of my favourites to warm up with is snow hey oh
came here for fashion advice, walked away with a guitar warm up exercise
This has broken me out of my stale warm up routine! Thank you!
Check out marigold by periphery..! a little more advanced but it gets ur fingers really really stretched and warmed up!
The bridge riff to Back in Black by AC/DC is also an amazing warmup riff using all 4 fingers
Thanks! And you were cracking me up in the beginning. 😁
I've been using the bluesy scale from "Jump in the Fire" as a wamup for a while now but haven't seen anyone on YT apply yet! it looks really challenging especially (as you mentioned) using alternate picking and palm muting together which is a really coordinated and difficult action. Your videos are amazing, fun and educating as always Mike! keep it up
Shirt aside, this video is ingenious... I've seen similar ideas on YT before but this is far and away the best I've watched. Ten highly useful finger exercises in the can, along with ten great new riffs to jam on. So twenty new items for your guitar toolbox in just over ten mins. Wonderful stuff indeed.
Mike, this is great. There are a number of things to take from this. Interesting exercise and ideas to take these riffs and repurpose them. Thank you so much for your great work. How rewarding it must be to know you are helping people be better musicians and get more joy out of their playing. So grateful...
Great vid. I also like to use two riffs from The Devil's Orchard by Opeth. The first is the part right before the vocals kick in and the other is the diminished triplet riff underneath the held vocal notes in the main verses.
Hey'as ... Just wanted to drop you a kudos, out of all the music instructors you are one of my faves, very clear and straight forward. Keep up the AWESOME work Bro !!!
Thank you. I really needed warm-up exercises that taught me more than just the exercise.
First riff is way cool! I will be working on these not only for the physical exercise but to develop my rhythm (or lack thereof).
Great vid, I like the little ascending run in "Nothing Else Matters" as a warmup, also.
This guy's lessons just make sense, best I've found on RUclips 👍
there's also some RHCP songs that i like to use as a warm up:
- Can't stop
- Whatchu Thinkin (the main bass riff, the guitar plays it on the middle of the song too)
- Soul to squeeze
- Under the bridge
- Dark necessities (the solo)
- Snow (But I can't play at full speed yet)
Great lesson I use the crazy on you riff from Heart as a warm up for anyone who isn’t into all the Heavy metal lol
Love the Pretty woman and crazy train ones too ! Thanks and Rock on ....🎸💃
Crazy Train riff (the way you play it) has been my warm-up exercise ever since I learned it on my acoustic. I did not have an electric but I still wanted to learn rock and metal. Now that I play an electric, it still remains as one of my most effective warm-up exercises because not only does it involves almost all fingers working but muting to make it sound cleaner. I start slow and then I keeps speeding it up. Great and effective content as always. Cheers!
Awesome excercise, really makes the blood flow in my fingers. Cool songs choices as well
Holy Wars is a great warmup riff.
Edit: Holy shit, didn’t expect to see Ashes In Your Mouth! Underrated song! Subbed.
I did a whole Megadeth video.
The-Art-of-Guitar Will watch!
i just started learning and wanted to say that your videos are helping me sooo much!! i’m now aware of many things i probably wouldn’t be if it weren’t these videos. thank you!!
I will be learning this “warm up” for 6 months 😂 Great video man, thanks for the tips!
Sameee 😭😂😂😂
This is so well thought out…seriously thank you! Great exercises
Just discovered your channel, your videos are absolutely brilliant!!! Loads of usable stuff to learn!!!! Keep up the great work!!!!! Cheers 🤘🤘🤘
message in a bottle has the same fretting pattern (almost) as pantera's floods outro which is also a great practicing riff
Thank ye for the upload on my Birthday! Great content as always
pantera floods the ending riff is a great strech and pinky warmup
Love this channel. Help my fingers learn new moves!
What's hilarious is that the ac/dc riff was actually a warm up exercise Angus used to do until his band heard it. Pretty cool.
You have the best warm-ups on all of RUclips.
2nd half of “Jacobs Ladder” by rush is another great repeating riff that’s complex and changes its position on neck a few times too
I think, that a really good warmup is intro riff from "Constant Motion" by Dream Theater. It can be played with all 4 fingers, it can be played with downstrokes only or alternate picking, and it can be played in a loop. :)
Good tips, exercises and productive scales are the only thing that really motivate. Great lesson brother..thank you😁🤘
Life in the fast lane started as a warm up riff👌🏽
Having a blast with some of these. Thanks man...
my favorite warm-up is probably plug in baby by muse...really gets your fingers moving XD
Jake Pinkney I love it too, it's a good exercise and sounds amazing
I was hoping someone would mention it, it's such a nice riff and simple riff to warm up, yet it's kinda hard to master
Really enjoy your videos as a beginner you really make it easy to follow. Thank you
I love that Jump in the Fire is on here because I've been using it as a warm-up for a while now!
Thanks this really helped me. Its fun to play and I'm getting better fast.
Thanks so much for sharing these great warmups!
I play bass but paranoid works well for warming up those quick harmer-ons and you use 3 of the string just in the intro.
The intro to Behind The Wall of Sleep is also cool for bass
I've never realized Floods was just like message in a bottle.
Nice exercises, thank you very much!
Mike, i'm really keen to know about that AC/DC lick. Is it in B mixolydian? and the tonality of the song being E-?
Mike love your videos. I really am going to try hard to learn guitar this year. I've been on again and off again for about 7 years due to health problems. I really hope I can learn. I've always loved guitar and you really inspire me to continue.
I think you came upon a great way to warm up while using riffs that most guitar players would know. Hey people learn to give credit when it's due. Keep on Rockin'
I love the Leper Messiah bridge riff, downpick it and it's a great exercise for both your hands
I hope you're talking about the riff after the solo, right? I dont think anyone on earth can downpick the bridge riff with the fast open e strings. As far as I know
@vlad the impala ruclips.net/video/Fm71Khu5-Lk/видео.html 3:15 that riff
My hints: Jump in the fire, The Skull beneath the skin (intro), Master of puppets... and so more Megadeth and Metallica songs you can use as exercices
Alan B Jump in the fire is an amazing warmup building up speed
Alan B Take No Prisoners is literally a song of just warmups.
Master of puppet...realy ?
Alan B Hiw about the opening guitar riff for for whom the bell tolls 😂
Try out the intro from Walk with Me in Hell by Lamb of God, it is kinda tricky to get down though.
Look at Mr. Stealyogurl over here.
Your SG is awesome! Great video by the way;)
Best guitar lessons on RUclips by far!
Life In The Fast Line was one of Joe Walsh’s warm up exercises before it became a song. So was Kerry Livgren’s, Dust In the Wind for fingerpicking.
Sir ! Thank you so much ! Greetings from Philippines !
The chromatic run in the sweating bullets solo really warms me up
Just had a moment. Did Dimebag 'borrow' the Floods riff from Message in a bottle?
Great idea. I have tried to do this but I can't stick with one riff long enough to get fluent. Cult of Personality has a couple of nice ones.
What a great warmup idea! Thnx! Sweet SG btw!
Why you have only 0.25m subs? This quality content deserves more
Green grass and high tides is a fun one to start out with. Great video as always. Thank you!
youre easily my favorite youtube guitarist to take lessons from
Very cool lesson...
Ps i love your white sg
The riff from Plug In Baby by Muse is a pretty nice warm-up too :)
All you are missing is a soul patch and some indoor sunglasses. Jokes aside, I love your videos dude and you have been such a great help for me in my journey. Keep doing what you are doing.
Favs 4:10
Crazy train 1:59
Pretty woman 1:01
I remember Powermad and that song Nice Dreams was the single off the Absolute Power album. I was impressed when I saw them live at a Lollapalooza festival in the early 90s
I'm not even done watching and can tell you I'm going home and trying this out, thanks man
Great video! My warm ups will be much more interesting now. Thanks
Smoke on the water is a great warm up too
thank you for your videos man help me out a lot !!
the tone is very beautiful. and a very beautiful sg
I just subscribed… You teach well you play well… Thanks for the sweet nothings by the way LOL… and way cool SG!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Dude!
Never expected to see powermad here in this video, I love that album and that song, of course
That sg is really nice, cool video!!
Fury It does look really nice, a friend of mine has a white SG as well
You're an dam good teacher. Keep on rocking mate
Such a great tutorial man thank you....the only thing about exercises like this is that there’s SO many that there’re basically endless...which is see is good and bad if you’re like me and feel like you need to do all of them...
Please tell me there's the Snow riff included here...
My biggest problem with hammer-ons/pull-offs is bumping the other strings. Got any tips for avoiding that? P. S. Thank you. Your videos are a massive help.
Interesting. I've always played message in a bottle with an open "A" when hit that portion. Less hand movement. But a little difficult to hit that portion clean. Love your casual, fun, yet thorough way of teaching.
I also contend that when Andy plays the riff he slides the Eb down to C# while hitting the open A string when starting that portion of the riff.
When you play it already the same way he tells you to play it :)
3rd riff is Deftones!!!!!! Love it!
HA!
Saved this to favorites just because of the Power Mad reference.
Loved that band!!
i would really like to know how i can get better at gripping the strings so the sound doesn't distort (acoustic guitar) - do you have a video for that?