I’d like to know what or where are the exercises for the different techniques and seminar courses? I wish technique was not something I had to think whenever I pick my guitar, but instead some that has baked within my playing, I found in the past that exercises train my ability to do, while the theory trains the knowledge of a discipline.
Even if I did the same 5 exercises would do it for me, but where can I find those exercises? What objectives should I focus on? The knowledge works as a way of how to do the exercises, but I’m missing what exercises to do.
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I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that the most fundamental exercise which you can take from the material on this site is the tremolo.
Otherwise, I can recommend Chris Brooks’ book on alternate picking if you want something to do with the ‘what’ to complement this site’s ‘how’.
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I have to agree with @James_W
This site is more dedicated to teaching you how to learn efficient picking motions and analyzing what the greatest pickers in the world do. The best way to tell if you’re doing a motion properly is through tremolo picking at high speeds. Personally Id say 16th notes at 170 bpm is a good baseline.
I would recommend working through the primer again with this in mind, and really just focus on learning a completely efficient motion.
Once you learn an efficient picking motion you can apply that to any exercise out there as long as you properly understand how escape motion works as well too, such as starting an exercise on an upstroke or a downstroke, but if you work through the primer and learn an efficient motion you will already understand this.
In my opinion the seminars are a really good point to move on to after that.
For example you can take something like the yngwie sixes lick, from the volcano seminar, and practice them on a single string going up and down different scales but most likely harmonic minor. And then you can graduate from a single string to going back and forth with those sixes on two strings and so on.
If you dont want to do all of that, because i understand that organizing that is a lot of work then Ill have to also second what @James_W said about Chris Brooks.
Chris Brooks has a bunch of great books out there and now even has an online video course about Yngwies playing style where he does follow along exercises. He even gave a shout out to Troy Grady in this course which I was very happy to hear as I am a big fan of both Troy and Chris’s platforms.
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