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

In this 5-Minute Lesson, Ron Jackson teaches you a warm up exercise that gets your fretting hand primed to play anywhere on your guitar's neck. This moveable chord exercise also to opens up your tonal palette and gets you comfortable playing in various positions on the fretboard.

Ron Jackson is a 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.