Guitar Player’s Essential Morning Workouts

By Rich Severson

Take your playing to the next level with these effective exercises designed to build your chops by improving your dexterity and helping you master the fretboard. Play along with MP3 practice tracks (included with each lesson) to make your workout more musical and fun.

Each workout is demonstrated slowly and close up then played with you at the tempo of the tracks. These workouts are progressive in skill and information, making them most effective when used in sequence. Rich explains how and why these exercises are beneficial to your playing and gives his insights and approaches to using them. 

Benefits of Starting the Guitar Player’s Essential Morning Workouts: 

-Supercharge your guitar skills: Invest just minutes a day and see real results.

-Targeted exercises: Boost your dexterity, master the fretboard, and unlock your musical potential.

-Comprehensive scale and arpeggio work: Learn and apply E, G, C, A, and D shape major scales and major 7th arpeggios (Workouts 1-5).

-Explore modes and minor keys: Dive into the Dorian mode, minor 7th arpeggios, and Harmonic Minor scales (Workouts 6-7).

-Advanced techniques: Tackle Harmonic Minor scales, the Locrian #6 mode, Master II V7b9 progressions, diatonic arpeggios, and triplet feel playing (Workouts 7-10).

-Expert insights: Learn from Rich's expert guidance and understand the "why" behind each exercise.

The Guitar Player’s Essential Morning Workouts series includes these videos: 

-Workout #1: E-Shape Major Scale & Major 7th Arpeggio

-Workout #2: G-Shape Major Scale & Major 7th Arpeggio

-Workout #3: C-Shape Major Scale & Major 7th Arpeggio

-Workout #4: A-Shape Major Scale & Major 7th Arpeggio

-Workout #5: D-Shape Major Scale & Major 7th Arpeggio

-Workout #6: A & G-Shapes Dorian Mode & Minor 7th Arpeggio

-Workout #7: Harmonic Minor to Major Scales - Locrian #6 Mode

-Workout #8: II V7b9 I Arpeggios

-Workout #9: Diatonic Arpeggios

-Workout #10: Scales & Arpeggios With A Triplet Feel

Each workout also includes a PDF exercise sheet written in both tab and standard notation and an MP3 backing track for practice. 

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