Welcome to the guitar workouts workshop. In this series of videos, Max is going to teach you an exercise to help you practice specific areas of your playing. Alternate picking, legato, rhythmic subdivisions, chord changes, stretches, and scale fragments are just some of the things that are going to be covered.

In each lesson, Max will demonstrate the exercise, break down how it was built, teach you it slowly, and then play it up to speed. Max will also teach you the principles behind each exercise so that once you're comfortable with each of them, you can start to build your own exercises to focus on specific weaknesses in your playing.

This exercise is great for warming up your picking hand, getting you comfortable playing different subdivisions, and it's going to work on your alternate picking speed.

You will be looping through 8th notes, 8th note triplets, 16th notes, and 16th note triplets. The key is to play everything without any tension, and ensure that your pick attack remains consistent as you change between the subdivisions.

This exercise is great for warming up your picking hand, getting you comfortable playing different subdivisions, and it's going to work on your alternate picking speed.

You will be looping through 8th notes, 8th note triplets, 16th notes, and 16th note triplets. The key is to play everything without any tension, and ensure that your pick attack remains consistent as you change between the subdivisions.

This exercise is great for synchronising your picking and fretting hands. It's going to build finger independence on your fretting hand, and it will be a great warm-up for your picking hand.

The Grid is a fantastic tool for understanding rhythm, and this exercise is going to help you focus on your ability to play syncopated rhythms and choose where you're accenting notes within subdivisions.

This exercise is going to work on your alternate picking chops, and get the minor pentatonic scale under your fingers. Combining a fragment of positions 1 & 2 of the minor pentatonic scale, the key here is to ring every note out cleanly and reduce the amount of string noise when you're moving between positions.

This picking drill is going to work on your picking speed and get you playing more complex rhythms with much less difficulty. While it's a simple exercise, it's important to focus on making sure you're playing without any tension, and that your pick attack remains consistent as you change between the subdivisions.

This spooky chord exercise is a monster for your fretting hand. It's a great warm-up, and if you can get this under your fingers then you will be prepared for any chord changes you may encounter in a song.

This exercise is going to focus on your finger independence and economy of motion. Each note in the exercise occurs on a different string to the previous note and is played with a different finger, which confuses your hand and forces you to keep thinking.

Ah, the neglected pinky! This "absolutely ruthless" pedal tone lick is going to work out your fretting hand and work out your pinky, and if that's not enough, it's great for your alternate picking chops too!

This exercise/lick is going to work on your finger independence and dexterity and is going to help build scale knowledge. It moves through two positions of the A minor scale, and the tricky thing is getting the movement between the two positions nice and quiet while maintaining speed and consistent note volume.

Taking The Grid one step further, this time everything is condensed into one bar, and the accent is moved every 4 16th notes. With this exercise, we're building our rhythmic exercise and our ability to deal with syncopation.

This picking hand drill is going to push your alternate picking and make complex rhythms much easier to play. It's going to give your fretting hand a break and work on the picking hand.3

You guessed it! An accordion-themed chord exercise that's going to stretch your fingers like never before! Take your time with this one, and remember to pay close attention to your posture, ensuring that you have no tension anywhere in your playing.

This legato exercise is going to put your fretting hand through its paces. It's great for testing the weaker fingers on your fretting hand. Covering 2 octaves of the G minor scale, the 3rd and 4th fingers on your fretting hand are going to get most of the punishment here.

This exercise is going to work on your legato and picking chops all in one! Combining a 3 note legato line with picking a note on an adjacent string. The challenge here is moving your 2nd finger between the legato line and the note on the adjacent string.

This exercise is designed to entirely confuse your left and right hand synchronisation, work on your fretting hand dexterity, and work on your alternate picking between strings. It's a roast!

In the conclusion of the guitar workouts workshop, Max takes all of the exercises and puts them together into one intense guitar workout! Each exercise from the workshop is repeated 8 times, and then there is a 1 bar rest before moving on to the next exercise. The exercises are played in the order they were taught in the workshop. The entire playthrough will be at 100bpm and will take about 15 minutes to complete.

The idea of this complete workout isn't to keep raising the tempo to play it faster. Instead, it's to be playing for a certain amount of time to focus on several aspects of your playing to get you nice and warmed up.

By integrating this workout into your regular practice regime, or making it your sole practice regime if you do not have one, you will see massive improvements in your playing.

Remember to take it slow, and always stop if anything hurts or feels tense.