The Guitar Daily Workout – System ELEVEN

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.

System 11 is the 3rd book of the Advanced series. In book 11 we will press into some brand new material.

For this system, we will approach the 7th chord arpeggios in small 4-note patterns, going through each of the chords of the harmonized scale in a single position. This will really help us to see all the arpeggios in smaller shapes, allowing us to quickly outline chord shapes in our improvisation. Many jazz guitarists see this as one of the most important exercises on the guitar.

We’ll also learn all of the modes of the melodic minor scale. And we’ll learn all the forms of the diminished scale. Lastly, we will practice all modes of the major scale in going up and down the neck octaves. This is very difficult to do, but a vitally important skill, especially for those interested in playing jazz.

Once you finish Syetem 11 of the Guitar Daily Workout, you should have gained a level of understanding and ability to learn and understand the sophisticated vocabularies used in jazz, fusion, and prog rock music.