The 5-Minute Lesson: Warming Up with Open-String Tremolo

This video contains exercises to build speed, control, and dynamics. These right-hand and left-hand exercises can help warm up before a gig, recording session, jam, or just at the beginning of your practice.

This 5-Minute Lesson is taught by Ron Jackson, a New York City-based master jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator who’s played with Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Randy Weston, Ron Carter, and many others. He is a guitar instructor at Jazz at Lincoln Center and a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine.

5-Minute Lesson is a series of brief, insightful videos with tips on warm-up exercises, practice tips, gig preparation and other useful topics for guitarists.