The Guitar Daily Workout – System FIVE

The Guitar Daily Workout is the gold standard for guitar technique studies. It is a clear, comprehensive, and systematic method to learn the most important scales, arpeggios, and exercises on your guitar. It’s an easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand training system of daily exercises for the guitar. Each book comes with standard notation and TAB, a video lesson for each week’s exercises, and a play-along video for each.

Welcome to System 5!  System 5 begins the INTERMEDIATE studies that will help you gain true mastery of your instrument. 

Now that you’ve completed the first four systems, you should have competence in most of the key FOUNDATIONAL skills required by a guitarist. Of course, in order to become a complete guitarist, you need more than just exercises, scales, and arpeggios. You will need to learn to apply these skills to real-world playing, and you must learn a musical vocabulary by transcribing other guitarists. However, you should already be seeing the power of these systems–how they help you not only to develop the physical skills necessary, but also connect the neck in a way that allows you to visualize the octaves, arpeggios, pentatonics, and major scales of whatever key you are in.

In System 5, we will push into some new territory. All of the scale and arpeggio exercises will be done using three-string sets. This change will force you to see smaller patterns of your scales and arpeggios rather than the larger ‘boxes’ we’ve practiced in the first four systems. Just to give you fair warning: System 5 is likely to be one of the most challenging of the first eight systems. But if you can complete System 5, it will really take your guitar playing to another level.