Warm-ups
Heres some simple warm ups my guitar teacher taught me a while back.
-----------------------------------------1-2-3-4~-4-3-2-1-----------------------------------------
---------------------------------1-2-3-4------------------4-3-2-1---------------------------------
-------------------------1-2-3-4----------------------------------4-3-2-1-------------------------
-----------------1-2-3-4--------------------------------------------------4-3-2-1-----------------
---------1-2-3-4------------------------------------------------------------------4-3-2-1---------
-1-2-3-4----------------------------------------------------------------------------------4-3-2-1~


-----------------------------------2-3----4-----1---------------------------------
---------------------------2-3---1-----4~---3-2---4-----1-------------------------
-------------------2-3---1-----4--------------------3-2---4-----1-----------------
-----------2-3---1-----4------------------------------------3-2---4-----1---------
---2-3---1-----4----------------------------------------------------3-2---4-----1~
-1-----4--------------------------------------------------------------------3-2---



-----------------------------------2---4~---3---1---------------------------------
---------------------------2---4-1---3----4---2-----3---1-------------------------
-------------------2---4-1---3--------------------4---2-----3---1-----------------
-----------2---4-1---3------------------------------------4---2-----3---1---------
---2---4-1---3----------------------------------------------------4---2-----3---1~
-1---3--------------------------------------------------------------------4---2---


Tonic Note (returning to the same note)
This excerpt is a very good exercise and appears in "Ship of Fools" by Yngwie Malmsteen.

E:----17-15-17-13-17-12-17-----13-12-13-10-13-8-13-------------------
B:-15----------------------15----------------------12----------------

E:-15-13-15-12-15-10-15----12-10-12-8-12-7-12------------------------
B:----------------------13--------------------10---------------------

E:-13-12-13-10-13-8-13-----12-10-12-8-12-7-12----12---12----12~------
B:---------------------12---------------------10----9----10-----/22~-


This exercise appears in "I'll see the light tonight" by Yngwie Malmsteen, and is an excerpt used in many pieces by Paganini. Begin on the High E for this exercise and work your way down to the low e and back up to the high e. It's a good workout.
E:--10--13--12--13---10--13--12--13---8--12--10--12--8--12--10--12-

E:--7--10--8--10---7--10--8--10---5--7--6--7---5--7--6--7----------

Sweep Arpeggios
If you don't already know how to do these, then I suggest tying a sock to the nut-end of your guitar to mute the noises and just finger the frets without plucking. If you don't know how to do these try just doing the 3 highest strings and work your way to a 5 string sweep.

Major (Key - F)
---------5h8h5---------
-------6-------6-------
-----5-----------5-----
---7---------------7---
-8-------------------8-
-----------------------

Minor (Key - A)
------------8h12h8------------
---------10--------10---------
-------9--------------9-------
----10------------------10----
-12------------------------12-
------------------------------

Diminished (Key - Ab)
----------7h10h7----------
--------9--------9--------
------7------------7------
----9----------------9----
-11--------------------11-
--------------------------

Extended Sweeps
Minor (Key - B)
----------------14h19h14----------------
-------------15----------15-------------
----------16----------------16----------
-------16----------------------16-------
-14h17----------------------------17h14-
----------------------------------------

Major (Key - A)
----------------12h17h12----------------
-------------14----------14-------------
----------14----------------14----------
-------14----------------------14-------
-12h16----------------------------16h12-
----------------------------------------


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Sweet, useful stuff!

Welcome to the forum sabarjp. I'm working on getting a really cool banner. Should be useful to attract others to the site and to put in signatures on other forums.

so.. i am new here!!!!and this is my first post!!!!these are some licks...neoclassical ones...very standart but they are used very,very often,especially from malmsteen:

1)this one here is played only on the high e string:at am
-4-7-5-7(x2)-5-8-7-5(x2)-7-10-8-10(x2)-8-12-10-12(x2)-10-13-12-10(x2)-12-15-13-15(x2)-13-17-15-17(x2)-15-19-17-19(x2)-17-20-19-20(x2)and backwards

and a good chord progression for arpeggios is this:
Am,Gmaj,Cmaj,Amaj,Dm,Eb diimished,Esus4,Emaj

Welcome to the neoclassicalmetal.org Morning Star. Great song btw from Vinnie Moore.

You guys rock. I'm actually the world's worst guitarist at this point, so naturally, instead of taking lessons (broke most of the time) I'm going through the process of teaching myself. & what do I start with?

"Hey, I think I'll try to learn that Yngwie Malmsteen song..." Hahaha.

Anyway, this information is fantastic. Thanks for sharing and have a great week.

Yeah man I've tried some Yngwie stuff. The arpeggios are especially tough. Using a metronome is very useful so you can work up Yngwie riffs to your max speed instead of Yngwie's speed which will take a long time.

Good advice. Play things like this slowly and steadily until you've got it memorized and slowly increase the speed, it'll do wonders for you in the long run. As I like to say, don't practice until you can play it right, practice until you can't play it wrong, :).

PS: Happy V-Day

Thank you both very much for the advice. I have an old metronome and will be employing it vigilantly.

I love the saying "Don't practice until you can play it right, practice until you can't play it wrong." That is excellent advice and will become my mantra.

Hope you had a great V-day as well. Rock on!

A great book/DVD combo to use for getting your hands in shape is Frank Gambale's Chopsbuilder....wow!!

Frank is a true master of sweep and economy picking ideas...his credentials are damn-near-perfect....

He also has a book/CD called Speed-Picking that is VERY good for economy/sweep picking....

You can find both on E-Bay fairly easy...Speed Picking is a bit more difficult...if that doesn't get your hands in shape..I don't know what will :ph43r: