9 Riffs That Are Also KILLER Warmup Exercises! 

1:07 - Pretty Woman 1:59 - Crazy Train 2:24 - Root 3:22 - Erotomania 4:10 - Jump In The Fire 5:34 - Ashes In Your Mouth 6:40 - Message In a Bottle 8:21 - Thunderstruck 9:17 - Nice Dreams

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One of my favorite warm ups is Hammett’s soloy part in for whom the bell tolls. It’s great to down pick or alternate, with or without palm muting.

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Never really thought of using actual musical riffs as warm ups. I normally just go through scales and a few chord progressions. Thanks for the vid.

Can you put the TAB bar little higher when you edit the video next time? The YT red bar covers the low E when I stop the video. That might be helpful for more viewers. Thanks Btw thanks for awesome tips :D Ive learn a lot from to you.

Papa Roach - Last Resort has a riff that is a decent warm up as well. The Trooper - Iron Maiden intro riff is fantastic for a quick, simple legato warm up Master Of Puppets - Metallica, the single notes riff is a decent warm up as well Rainmaker - Iron Maiden intro riff is also a good warm up

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Guns 'n' Roses greatest hit and signature riff was originally Slash's string skipping exercise... Cool shirt anyway though

Some other warmup riffs I can think of are Snow (Hey Oh) from Red Het Chili Peppers and the solo from Megadeth's Sweating Bullets

The bridge riff to Back in Black by AC/DC is also an amazing warmup riff using all 4 fingers

I laughed out loud at the beginning when you explained your fancy shirt hahaha Keep it coming, you're awesome :)

I will be learning this “warm up” for 6 months 😂 Great video man, thanks for the tips!

Thanks! And you were cracking me up in the beginning. 😁

Powermad was such a great and underrated band and "Nice Dreams" is one of my favorite metal songs of all-time. Saw them open for Overkill at the 9:30 club in D.C. back in the day.

Wow this is so convenient, today i have to play outside (its winter here) and i really have a hard time when trying to warmup, great videos as always!!

there's also some RHCP songs that i like to use as a warm up: - Can't stop - Whatchu Thinkin (the main bass riff, the guitar plays it on the middle of the song too) - Soul to squeeze - Under the bridge - Dark necessities (the solo) - Snow (But I can't play at full speed yet)

pantera floods the ending riff is a great strech and pinky warmup

Holy Wars is a great warmup riff. Edit: Holy shit, didn’t expect to see Ashes In Your Mouth! Underrated song! Subbed.

This has broken me out of my stale warm up routine! Thank you!

First riff is way cool! I will be working on these not only for the physical exercise but to develop my rhythm (or lack thereof).

message in a bottle has the same fretting pattern (almost) as pantera's floods outro which is also a great practicing riff

My hints: Jump in the fire, The Skull beneath the skin (intro), Master of puppets... and so more Megadeth and Metallica songs you can use as exercices

2nd half of “Jacobs Ladder” by rush is another great repeating riff that’s complex and changes its position on neck a few times too

What's hilarious is that the ac/dc riff was actually a warm up exercise Angus used to do until his band heard it. Pretty cool.

Shirt aside, this video is ingenious... I've seen similar ideas on YT before but this is far and away the best I've watched. Ten highly useful finger exercises in the can, along with ten great new riffs to jam on. So twenty new items for your guitar toolbox in just over ten mins. Wonderful stuff indeed.

Life in the fast lane started as a warm up riff👌🏽

I think you came upon a great way to warm up while using riffs that most guitar players would know. Hey people learn to give credit when it's due. Keep on Rockin'

I think, that a really good warmup is intro riff from "Constant Motion" by Dream Theater. It can be played with all 4 fingers, it can be played with downstrokes only or alternate picking, and it can be played in a loop. :)

The chromatic run in the sweating bullets solo really warms me up

You have the best warm-ups on all of RU-vid.

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Crazy Train riff (the way you play it) has been my warm-up exercise ever since I learned it on my acoustic. I did not have an electric but I still wanted to learn rock and metal. Now that I play an electric, it still remains as one of my most effective warm-up exercises because not only does it involves almost all fingers working but muting to make it sound cleaner. I start slow and then I keeps speeding it up. Great and effective content as always. Cheers!

I've never realized Floods was just like message in a bottle.

I've been using the bluesy scale from "Jump in the Fire" as a wamup for a while now but haven't seen anyone on YT apply yet! it looks really challenging especially (as you mentioned) using alternate picking and palm muting together which is a really coordinated and difficult action. Your videos are amazing, fun and educating as always Mike! keep it up

I play bass but paranoid works well for warming up those quick harmer-ons and you use 3 of the string just in the intro.

I love the Leper Messiah bridge riff, downpick it and it's a great exercise for both your hands

One of my favourites to warm up with is snow hey oh

Excellent video. It's been long time i was searching this kind of exercice for stretching my fingers and getting more agility. Thanx a lot. Keep on going like that

Great vid. I also like to use two riffs from The Devil's Orchard by Opeth. The first is the part right before the vocals kick in and the other is the diminished triplet riff underneath the held vocal notes in the main verses.

I love your videos so much. They really help me better develop my guitar skills and when I watch them it just makes me wanna pick up my guitar and play. Thank you!

my favorite warm-up is probably plug in baby by muse...really gets your fingers moving XD

I love that Jump in the Fire is on here because I've been using it as a warm-up for a while now!

Great lesson I use the crazy on you riff from Heart as a warm up for anyone who isn’t into all the Heavy metal lol Love the Pretty woman and crazy train ones too ! Thanks and Rock on ....🎸💃

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Mike, this is great. There are a number of things to take from this. Interesting exercise and ideas to take these riffs and repurpose them. Thank you so much for your great work. How rewarding it must be to know you are helping people be better musicians and get more joy out of their playing. So grateful...

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Smoke on the water is a great warm up too

When you play it already the same way he tells you to play it :) 3rd riff is Deftones!!!!!! Love it!

i just started learning and wanted to say that your videos are helping me sooo much!! i’m now aware of many things i probably wouldn’t be if it weren’t these videos. thank you!!

Thank you. I really needed warm-up exercises that taught me more than just the exercise.

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Great idea. I have tried to do this but I can't stick with one riff long enough to get fluent. Cult of Personality has a couple of nice ones.

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i think tornado of souls is an extremly good warmup :)

Such a great tutorial man thank you....the only thing about exercises like this is that there’s SO many that there’re basically endless...which is see is good and bad if you’re like me and feel like you need to do all of them...

Why you have only 0.25m subs? This quality content deserves more

The riff from Plug In Baby by Muse is a pretty nice warm-up too :)

Very cool lesson... Ps i love your white sg

All you are missing is a soul patch and some indoor sunglasses. Jokes aside, I love your videos dude and you have been such a great help for me in my journey. Keep doing what you are doing.

Great video! My warm ups will be much more interesting now. Thanks

Interesting. I've always played message in a bottle with an open "A" when hit that portion. Less hand movement. But a little difficult to hit that portion clean. Love your casual, fun, yet thorough way of teaching.

Mike love your videos. I really am going to try hard to learn guitar this year. I've been on again and off again for about 7 years due to health problems. I really hope I can learn. I've always loved guitar and you really inspire me to continue.

Dude, good morning! You totally missed Bombtrack by RATM

I always thought Snow (Hey Oh) was a good warm up. Nothing like destroying your fingers before actually playing.

I'm not even done watching and can tell you I'm going home and trying this out, thanks man

Those are fun exercises/ Thanks for posting!

The first riff after the clean intro in Anastasia is awesome either

I'm used to play Sweet Child O' Mine intro riff, Thunderstruck, The Trooper intro and main riff, Burn intro and Over the Hills and Far Away main riff (the theme riff) as a warm up "exercises" and it works really well for me. They are good for that at least in my opinion + they are parts of my fave songs, which really counts 😉 Thanks for another tips!

Powermad? Whoa, what a gem. Absolute Power is such a great album

You ever notice Petrucci often tucks his left pinky away? It just pops out once in a while for those crazy "Dream Theater" parts. And Marty Friedman, he does an ultra tuck (not to mention his picking hand).

Check out marigold by periphery..! a little more advanced but it gets ur fingers really really stretched and warmed up!

I remember Powermad and that song Nice Dreams was the single off the Absolute Power album. I was impressed when I saw them live at a Lollapalooza festival in the early 90s

For whom the bell tolls, the lead riff in the begining just before the 0003 0005 0003 7 2 riff is a great warmup :)

Here’s a couple warm up songs: the first distorted part in Anastasia by slash The chorus in beast and the harlot The fast solo in bar country

Thanks this really helped me. Its fun to play and I'm getting better fast.

Awesome excercise, really makes the blood flow in my fingers. Cool songs choices as well

Good tips, exercises and productive scales are the only thing that really motivate. Great lesson brother..thank you😁🤘

Bass note breakdown towards the end of "Hey Joe" all the way up the neck works my fingers & brain

youre easily my favorite youtube guitarist to take lessons from

I totally get that this is aimed more towards beginners, but I think that this idea is really great, no matter how experienced you are. In fact I usually warm up with Born by Nevermore and To Build a Tomb by Sylosis these days, not only with one riff, but with playing the whole songs 2 or 3 times. It is a great way to warm up while not feeling like "working".

Go check Locomotive by Guns n roses! Pretty good warmup

Finally, exercises that are musical and fun to play!! I dedicate this flask to Bacchus in your honor!

Nice exercises, thank you very much!

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Your SG is awesome! Great video by the way;)

Hammer Smashed Face is kinda good for warm up.

Really enjoy your videos as a beginner you really make it easy to follow. Thank you

Great vid, I like the little ascending run in "Nothing Else Matters" as a warmup, also.

I believe that the beginning from plug in baby is a great warmup

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This is so well thought out…seriously thank you! Great exercises

Green grass and high tides is a fun one to start out with. Great video as always. Thank you!

I usually warm up with Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria

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Also the 5 Magic’s 5/8 riff is a great workout for the left and right hand

Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a good warm up riff.

What a great warmup idea! Thnx! Sweet SG btw!