The next step in my warm up process is by adding arpeggios. Now, we've already established some synchronization using the chromatic scale. Now with arpeggios is a little bit different movement and it really helps me to get warmed up. This is my main warm-up backstage after I do chromatic scales. Now the warm-up involves playing triad arpeggios and I'm going to take you through exactly how I do this. We'll start with minor triads because it's the easiest fingering to start out with. Now what I do is I start on C and I play a minor triad arpeggio from the C up to the G on the first string like this. Here's something important to consider while you're playing the first part of this triad arpeggio, is that a lot of guitar players will flatten the finger between the G and the C at first. I do not recommend this. Since we're trying to warm up, we're trying to play one note per finger. So if you find yourself flattening the finger, try to change it so that you're playing the first finger, the fourth finger, the second finger, the third finger, and I'll give you an example. We are activating everything separately and I think this is one of the reasons that it's such a great warm up. So after this section, we're going to transition to a new position on the guitar. So I'll show it to you right here. Now the key here is that we play the arpeggio, then we move up to the C, which is the key that we're in with the first finger because we are actually migrating to a new position. So once we're here, we're in our new position and we start a new pattern and it goes like this. Now here, there is a little bit of flattening going on because you can't really avoid that. But I do not recommend flattening with the third finger. So the basic rule is that you can flatten the first finger when you during this, but I don't recommend flattening the middle finger, ring finger and the pinky. So here's the entire pattern put together. Now moving on from this, we are going to connect this to all of the different keys. So there's 12 keys, we take this through 12 keys. So this is how you do it. It's very simple, but it requires you to think a little bit about what key you're in. So we start in C minor. Now when we end the pattern right here, we're going to transition to the new key, which is F. So you will see that once you've finished with the pattern, you are just a fifth away from your new key. So here's the last note, here's your new key. Now, after we get to F, we will start the pattern again and we will do this. So what did I do? I did the exact same fingering pattern that I did on C, only transposed to F. So watch it should again, this is a C, transition, change keys, transition. Now once you're here, you will go to the next key. Now we're in F, we're going to go down a fifth. For guitar players, it's easy just to see a power chord. If you're having trouble visualizing this, just see it as a power chord makes it much easier. So starting on B flat, we will play the exact same pattern. Now you'll notice here that if we go way up to B flat here, it starts to get too high on the guitar and some of you playing acoustic guitars or guitars with 22 frets or 21 frets are going to run into some space issues up there. What you want to do is go up the B-flat arpeggio and come down to B-flat here and play the next part of the pattern like this. This will lead you into the new key, which is, remember, put your fifth down there, E-Flat. So the B-flat to E-flat transition will look like this. So this is what we've done so far. As you can see, when you're playing this warm up exercise, it demands quite a bit from your fretting hand and that's what it's designed to do. We're trying to get to the next level of warming up and by doing this, we have to play something a little bit more complex. Now I am going to demonstrate the entire exercise through all 12 keys in minor.
